Picture of Difford and Tilbrook playing Hourglass since I didn’t take a picture of the guy who paid an admission fee to sit in a loud room and do crosswords on his phone.
Charitably, could be an attention issue. I’ve had to start learning about ADHD as I’m basically the only one in my nuclear family without it, and a common thing is needing to be doing something while listening.
It is mildly infuriating at the best of times to have someone constantly fidget and squirm and not acknowledge you while you talk, but listening doesn’t always look like listening unfortunately.
Though, I haven’t heard of this specific thing while at a concert it’s not beyond imagining that it’s just a tactic to accommodate their own needs.
If he is accommodating his own needs and those needs involvie being a distraction, maybe he could have bought a ticket for the mostly empty back row so his phone wouldn’t shine in other people’s faces.
True. Being inconsiderate is not ADHD specific, fine to call it out
Don’t ruin your own experience because someone else is enjoying it differently than you like to
Kind of hard to have as good an experience as I otherwise might have had without a guy’s bright phone shining in my field of view.
Squeeze is great, sucks that you were distracted
In terms of concert distractions that was pretty good, asocial vs hostile. One concert I went to before COVID, some jerk literally elbowed his way to the front.
He took a few punches before getting hoisted over the barrier so w/e
You know what you need to do with that guy’s phone.
Take it to the bridge…
Probably because of friends and family
Nope, he was by himself. I don’t know why he went.
Did they at least play Cool for Cats?
(This is the only song of theirs I know)
They did. It’s one of the few songs sung by Chris Difford instead of Glenn Tilbrook even though they almost always get co-writing credits and rarely do other band members (who rotate in and out all the time anyway). Unfortunately, his voice is not what it used to be. Tilbrook, on the other hand, sounded almost as good as he did 50 years ago.
The really funny thing about Difford is that I always heard he was shy, but he spent most of the show so that the lights weren’t on him. Which is fine with me. I could still see him play.
I’m curious why it mildly infuriated you. Why do you care in an emotionally charged way?
Because having a light shining in my face while watching a band I’ve waited to see since I was 10 makes me care.
Sort of like I’m guessing you would care if you were in a movie theater and the person in front of you directly in your field of vision was looking at their bright phone the whole time.
Ah, that makes sense. I hope I didn’t offend you by asking that.
No, not at all. :)
It’s hilarious that you
A. Got mad enough to post about it.
B. Considered disrespecting this person you know nothing about by posting a picture of them taken without their knowledge.
C. Lack the empathy or intellectual capacity to imagine a world in which they’re justified for their behaviour because you wanted the experience to go a certain preconceived way.
D. Still think you somehow have a point, when in fact your stewing is your own fault.
It’s even more funnier that:
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You willingly made an account on here
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Took time out of your day to read this magazine, click on this post and make a comment
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Come out thinking you’re the righteous one when you’ve had all of the choice in the world to simply not say anything
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Nice bait mate.
