Music lovers should be banned from using their smartphones at lives shows, a leading concert designer says.
LeRoy Bennett, who has previously designed the shows for Madonna, Prince and Paul McCartney, claims that concert-goers are becoming obsessed with capturing the perfect ‘Instagram moment’.
Mr Bennet added that musicians become disappointed by seing poorly taken fan pictures on social media and become unfairly critical about their own appearance when it was just a ‘bad photograph’.
“The whole Instagram thing is kind of a slippery slope because there’s a lot of people in the audience not all in the same spot, so some people take better shots than others, and artists see it and go, ‘this is terrible’”, he told Rolling Stone.
“If you’re in front of the stage looking at it, it’s easy to take a good Instagram. If you’re off to the side, pointing your camera sideways, it’s not necessarily the best angle.
Many artists are also agree of the proposed phone ban as they have already taken a disliking to mobile phones at their live performances.
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Top Designer Urges to Ban Using Smartphones during Live Shows
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