Selfie Sticks

[Picles]

Selfie sticks can obstruct the view and so the fucking annoying flags. should ban both or none.

As for the realization that we are in a narcissistic egocentric society, I feel sorry as well. Always pass by some people and feel like having a chat about how they could enjoy the festival better if they didn't spent hours trying to get the best shot or charging their phone twice a day so they can post the pics. Not to mention people who watch the gigs through their phones, I will never get that. Film first, watch later - that logic blows my mind. you're in the fucking festival, you can watch live, but no.

But i guess there's nothing we can do but realize that what other people do is none of our business and be happy with that. daily exercise

[LondonTom]

Selfie sticks can obstruct the view and so the fucking annoying flags. should ban both or none.

I thought it was just presumption they would. I didn't see anyone using a selfie stick in the crowd last year while a band was on tbf.

And I think one group who talk a group shot of themselves in front of the pyramid, rather quicker than asking someone else to do it. while waiting for Arcade Fire...

They are no where near as bad as flags (which are unfortunately not banned)

[hulk mike]

yeah, lets ban everything we don't like and tell everyone exactly how they should enjoy the festival, more conformity please.

Its a phone on a stick

People have them

Get over it

[ThomThomDrum]

Edited July 7, 2015 by ThomThomDrum

[Wickedfaerie]

Well I've recently started to make you-tube videos, mainly to help promote my clothing business, so I'm afraid you may see me walking about self-consciously talking to a camera on a selfie-stick!

[ThomThomDrum]

I experienced a odd, depressing and rather annoying moment this year on the Sunday. I was at Hozier with the Mrs and the gig was grand. Nothing of note to report. I probably spent most of my time at it wondering if there will be a Q at the flushables when I make my way up there later...............anyway, it was coming to the end of the gig and Hozier decided to play "take me to church" which makes sense it being his most popular tune and all, but I was utterly amazed at the amount of phones that suddenly appeared! Hundreds! Thousands! We actually strangely felt out of place not watching this tune through a viewfinder. The amount of people recording this was perplexing to me. I had not witnessed/noticed such mass recording for one tune prior to this. Myself and the Mrs just looked at each other going "WTF?". 

 

It really felt as if everyone must have been standing about chatting waiting for the tune they know/like and then they proceeded to watch it through their phone when it happened. Really fucking odd behaviour. I dont get people sometimes.....................(probably most of the time in reality)

[tom22]

I experienced a odd, depressing and rather annoying moment this year on the Sunday. I was at Hozier with the Mrs and the gig was grand. Nothing of note to report. I probably spent most of my time at it wondering if there will be a Q at the flushables when I make my way up there later...............anyway, it was coming to the end of the gig and Hozier decided to play "take me to church" which makes sense it being his most popular tune and all, but I was utterly amazed at the amount of phones that suddenly appeared! Hundreds! Thousands! We actually strangely felt out of place not watching this tune through a viewfinder. The amount of people recording this was perplexing to me. I had not witnessed/noticed such mass recording for one tune prior to this. Myself and the Mrs just looked at each other going "WTF?". 

 

It really felt as if everyone must have been standing about chatting waiting for the tune they know/like and then they proceeded to watch it through their phone when it happened. Really fucking odd behaviour. I dont get people sometimes.....................(probably most of the time in reality)

 

Minor point...I quite often take little 15 second videos during sets. Quite like watching the next day/month/year to bring back some nice memories. It is possible to record without looking at the phone. One spends a fair bit of time at any gig with one's hands above one's head, either waving or clapping. It's no great burden to add a telephone to one hand for a few seconds whilst keeping eyes on the performance without 'watching a gig through a viewfinder."

[ThomThomDrum]

Minor point...I quite often take little 15 second videos during sets. Quite like watching the next day/month/year to bring back some nice memories. It is possible to record without looking at the phone. One spends a fair bit of time at any gig with one's hands above one's head, either waving or clapping. It's no great burden to add a telephone to one hand for a few seconds whilst keeping eyes on the performance without 'watching a gig through a viewfinder."

 

I get that. But this was not that. This was unreal numbers of people recording the whole song and looking at their screens. I had never before seen such numbers do such a thing all at once.

Edited July 7, 2015 by ThomThomDrum

[russycarps]

******warning, Torygraph link******

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11721745/Lightning-bolt-struck-and-killed-Brecon-Beacons-walker-because-he-was-carrying-a-selfie-stick.html

[Matt42]

Drones scare the shit out of me

 

but selfie sticks, didn't see a single one at the festival so I don't have a problem with them.

[A Guy Called Matt]

Saw two selfie sticks I think........... well sticks with something on them.

 

 

As for thousands of people holding up phones..... that is getting worse and worse. In Bristol it does not tend to happen much but in Birmingham we felt odd dancing to the music and not holding up our phones to record it!

[Untz]

I didn't notice any selfie sticks, long video recording or excessive selfies. The solution is to get so rat arsed you either don't notice or don't care.

[Winslow Leach]

To be honest I'm just waiting for the harbingers of selfie-geddon to admit that there really weren't that many selfie sticks there this year.

[Filthy]

My friend had a 3d camera that looked like a selfie stick so we constantly took the piss 

[ImGonnaLive4eva]

I don't understand why people feel the need to document everything they see, what's it for? Can't people just enjoy a moment any more without recording it? Saw it so many times walking through the circus fields, as soon as something impromptu happened out came the phones and cameras. Everything is watched through a screen these days, it's really weird.

[Dave1.1]

I thought there was going to selfie sticks everwhere this year, don't think I saw a single one!

[not worthy]

Didn't see many at Glastonbury.

 

What I did see earlier this year was Brian Molko looking disappointed by the sea of phones in front of him whilst singing 'too many friends' with the lyric 'When all the people do all day is stare into a phone'

[ghandi]

I'll be honest, I do take a few shit pictures and videos from my phone for memories that I stick in a year folder on my PC for posterity. The longest one I did was that dance thing to Bowie music doing Heroes and at the very back on the mound by the toilets recording almost 2 mins of Hello during Lionel to get the atmosphere, but I draw a line at doing it in the front at gigs. I tried to take a picture of every set I went to. I didn't take one single picture of myself, do not possess a selfie stick and to be honest never even noticed anyone else using them.

[Pinhead]

There wasn't the number of them that I was honestly expecting this year. Only saw one - at Lionel - woman spent nearly the whole gig mucking around with the thing and lining up shots etc. and frankly missed the whole gig because of it.

[kerplunk]

******warning, Torygraph link******

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11721745/Lightning-bolt-struck-and-killed-Brecon-Beacons-walker-because-he-was-carrying-a-selfie-stick.html

 

“We can confirm that the person who remained at Prince Charles Hospital for treatment following yesterday’s tragic lightening strikes in the Brecon Beacons has been discharged.”

 

ooof!

[random_man]

Just a couple I saw around the site

[kerplunk]

I think they should be called narciss-sticks.

[warriormonk]

I think they should be called narciss-sticks.

 

Du-dussssshhhhhhhhhh!  

[sime]

I only saw a couple of selfie sticks. They didn't bother me and I did think that the photos being taken would make for nice keepsakes of the festival.

[stuartbert two hats]

I only saw a couple of selfie sticks. They didn't bother me and I did think that the photos being taken would make for nice keepsakes of the festival.

*reasonable response warning*