I am finding the experience just isn’t as fun anymore.

At a gig over the weekend I was forced to watch the show in between or through the sea of phone screens lifted into the air. It only seems to be getting worse, and it’s really ruining the experience (for me and friends I’ve spoken to at least).

We’re lucky now to have the ability to take little snippets of our favourite songs, and I’m not talking about that, I mean the people who genuinely record the entire thing. One girl had her phone up the whole time, she even had it plugged into a power bank. I genuinely don’t know how she managed to keep her arms up for that length of time!

I also noticed the atmosphere has become really tepid, no one is jumping, dancing or seeming to enjoy themselves in the same way and I think the phones contribute to that.

The only semi recent gig that was the opposite of this was Oasis last year, such a good vibe of people enjoying themselves and the reduction in phones being used was really obvious.

I know we tend to romanticise things from when we are younger, and maybe those people are still having a great time in a way I cannot relate to, but it really feels like they are losing their magic!