As if I needed another reason to love Tori Amos.

god damn things are electronic cockroaches.

Good for her.

As long as I don't videotape or record her performance, shine a laser pointer in her face, throw stuff on the stage, smoke, act rudely towards people sitting around me or do anything else that the back of the ticket stub tells me not to do, she can go fark herself. Yes, I suppose someone on their phone might be a distraction to such a delicate flower as Tori but she can't be naive enough to think that the world stops turning when she performs.

/not trolling.

I've never been to a concert quiet enough to hear someone chatting on a cell phone. I've never been to a concert boring enough for someone to be chatting on a phone instead of watching the show.

Sounds like a really boring, quiet concert.

An article referencing another magazine referencing an incident at least a year old...

Man, she looks like shiat in that pic.

Can we get the "old news is so exciting" picture up in here?

Ah, a Tori Amos concert. Or as I call it, "Rape: The Musical".

tagjim: Yes, I suppose someone on their phone might be a distraction to such a delicate flower as Tori but she can't be naive enough to think that the world stops turning when she performs.

Tickets to concerts and theater are expensive. Really expensive. While the concerts I prefer are generally loud enough that a phone conversation wouldn't even be possible, if I were to have spent lots of money on a "class" show (Bruce Springsteen solo acoustic, for example, Tom Waits or the like) I would consider someone talking on a mobile phone to be not only rude but also violating my right to the performance I paid for.

In this case it seems it was a free ticket for the inconsiderate sack that disrupted the show, but whether they paid or not they don't have a right to ruin a show that a lot of other people paid
a lot of money for. If it were a free public show, then she's out of luck -- free speech applies. But in a private venue where hundreds/thousands have paid to see and listen to a performance, those people have the right to expect a chance to experience the event as intended. If the phone call is really so important, the b could have left. Her right to "free speech" does not include the right to detract from what others have a right to expect.

I'm sure the back of the ticket uses broad enough terms to give them the ability to toss her out, and I'm all for it. My budget gets me more in movies and bar shows than upscale events but I get annoyed enough at (relatively inexpensive) movies.

Damn idiots, always yammering on their mobiles because nobody who's around them wants to talk to them.

I don't think it's a matter of "the world stops turning" as an ego issue.

tagjim: As long as I don't videotape or record her performance, shine a laser pointer in her face, throw stuff on the stage, smoke, act rudely towards people sitting around me or do anything else that the back of the ticket stub tells me not to do, she can go fark herself. Yes, I suppose someone on their phone might be a distraction to such a delicate flower as Tori but she can't be naive enough to think that the world stops turning when she performs.

/not trolling.

You're one of those driving butthead who texts and puts makeup on while driving, aren'tcha?

^^^buttheads

Not as many people smoke these days, so cellphones are the new lighters.

/smoker
//doesn't own a cellphone

Cell phones make assholes so much easier to spot.

Outfarkingstanding.

wow now she'll play to zero people instead of 13 people. great job!

When I saw Regina Spektor she ended up stopping to tell some loud folks in the back (during a slower, quieter song in a smaller venue) to shut up or go to the farking bar in the other room.


Pretty funny.

Ya know, if you pay $GODAWFUL for tickets, and then $WTF in TicketBastard fees, inconvenience charges, and so on, and then proceed to farking spend the farking show diddling with your farking cell phone, GET THE FARK OUT and hand your seats over to someone who WANTS to be there and is paying attention to/enjoying the show. This goes for ANY act, be it Tori Amos or NIN or My Emo Sucks or Lame-o Country or Lame Cook or whatever. It's farking RUDE of you to get tickets and piass them away yammering on or texting away on your cell, particularly if the place is sold out or since there's probably someone who wishes they had your much better seat.

Now, on the other hand, if your job makes you be on call (like mine), and you HAVE to have your phone on you and turned on because OMFG all the servers are down or your patient just manifested a unique symptom or you're the lieutenant governor and nobody can find the governor, then that's different. Though I would expect you to tell work that you are going to be somewhere where you can't be disturbed or that you need to be off-call first.

If you're doing the equivalent of live-blogging the freaking concert, get a farking life and try applying for press credentials (good luck!).

This also isn't the first time Tori's had people booted out for being douchebags: Link

I agree: you're sitting that close to the stage for a reason, and it's not to fark off instead of enjoying the show.

/going to see her soon
//row DDD in the orchestra pit
///need a date, any Farkettes available for Detroit 8/8?

If I was playing a show and the front row was jabbering into their cellphones, I would have sulfuric acid thrown on them.

STFU IF YOU'RE GONNA SIT THERE,PRINCESS!

I remember seeing Einsturzende Nuebauten in 2000. Their opening song involved a part with long silence, evoking a Cageian kind of thing. At the time of silence, a cell phone went off, and the band just kind of looked at each other and chuckled. Whole place erupted with a short but enjoyable applause.

That's how you handle cell phone usage at a concert.

tagjim: As long as I don't videotape or record her performance, shine a laser pointer in her face, throw stuff on the stage, smoke, act rudely towards people sitting around me or do anything else that the back of the ticket stub tells me not to do, she can go fark herself. Yes, I suppose someone on their phone might be a distraction to such a delicate flower as Tori but she can't be naive enough to think that the world stops turning when she performs.

/not trolling.

Bullshiat.

I just paid for front row tickets, and I have to hear some twit sitting next to me, discussing some reality show, or what's on sale at Walmart, instead of what I paid good money to hear.

Juniper Jupiter: tagjim: As long as I don't videotape or record her performance, shine a laser pointer in her face, throw stuff on the stage, smoke, act rudely towards people sitting around me or do anything else that the back of the ticket stub tells me not to do, she can go fark herself. Yes, I suppose someone on their phone might be a distraction to such a delicate flower as Tori but she can't be naive enough to think that the world stops turning when she performs.

/not trolling.

You're one of those driving butthead who texts and puts makeup on while driving, aren'tcha?

No. I just thumb my nose at the "omg rude" attitude that some of these performers have. If your show suffers because someone in the audience is distracting you talking on their phone, it's time to toughen up. Not everyone is Amy Farking Vanderbilt.

This video is old but worth looking at again.

If you go to a show, watch and listen, show the artist and yourself some respect.

If you want to talk about your day/hair/girl/boyfriend, stay home, order a pizza, and put on a CD, talk your ass off.

tagjim:
No. I just thumb my nose at the "omg rude" attitude that some of these performers have. If your show suffers because someone in the audience is distracting you talking on their phone, it's time to toughen up. Not everyone is Amy Farking Vanderbilt.

Given that the front rows are often *reserved* by the act for their people/friends/family, or for things like charity ticket auction, contest winners, stuff like that, I think it's less "OMG YOU'RE DISTURBING ME" than it is "you're being a total douchebag to people who WANT to be here. And let's face it, no act is gonna be able to see what's going on in row ZZ seat 9, but they can see if someone in row AAA where they can literally reach out and biatchslap people is being a total douche and annoying everyone in the surrounding seats. And it's nice to see some acts care about their fans' experience. If I was an act I'd have security quietly get the annoying, distracting jerks the hell out -- not because I'm an AW or insecure about the quality of my act or whatever, but because it's good business for my devoted fans. It's much the same thing as if you ran a bar/restaurant and someone was being a rowdy ass and people started leaving.

HellFace: Man, she looks like shiat in that pic.

Yeah, I was wondering if she aged horribly or got attacked by a plastic surgeon, or maybe both.

Here's a little eye-bleach to help out:

Again, I'm not paying to hear some asshole in the seat next to me, talk on the phone.

You aren't consulting on a missile strike, a difficult brain surgery, or interest rates, so turn off the phone YOU DOUCHE BAG!

tagjim: Juniper Jupiter: tagjim: As long as I don't videotape or record her performance, shine a laser pointer in her face, throw stuff on the stage, smoke, act rudely towards people sitting around me or do anything else that the back of the ticket stub tells me not to do, she can go fark herself. Yes, I suppose someone on their phone might be a distraction to such a delicate flower as Tori but she can't be naive enough to think that the world stops turning when she performs.

/not trolling.

You're one of those driving butthead who texts and puts makeup on while driving, aren'tcha?

No. I just thumb my nose at the "omg rude" attitude that some of these performers have. If your show suffers because someone in the audience is distracting you talking on their phone, it's time to toughen up. Not everyone is Amy Farking Vanderbilt.

You coonts are the reason going to the movies sucks these days.

Alex Chilton: Can we get the "old news is so exciting" picture up in here?



There ya go.

strawberryfieldsforever: Alex Chilton: Can we get the "old news is so exciting" picture up in here?



There ya go.

People who post age old memes are the "movie theater negros" of the internet.

TommyymmoT: strawberryfieldsforever: Alex Chilton: Can we get the "old news is so exciting" picture up in here?



There ya go.

People who post age old memes are the "movie theater negros" of the internet.

I nearly choked to death on my beer.

I think she looks great.

StinkyFiddlewinks: I think she looks great.

Troller. Try not to be so obvious.

Someone is using a cell phone, while she does a ballad as a dead dog dedication, right out of an up-tempo song?

/Kasey Kasem says shes doing it wrong.

Link (new window)

//Is it proper slashy etiquette to slash, post a link, and then double slash?

Blowmonkey: Cell phones make assholes so much easier to spot.

Did you just fly in from 1999?

Note to self: never go to a concert, play or movie with tagjim

TA fans are creepy because they're always way too much into TA.

Also, every male fan I've met looks something like this.



It's not right.

Architecture Of Aggression: wow now she'll play to zero people instead of 13 people. great job!

Not if she has another "almost rape" experience, maybe that will amp up her fanbase as it did years ago. Claiming to be raped when you were "almost raped" is one of the lowest things you can do, especially when you use that situation for profit and fame.

/look into it

I'm gonna see Clutch tonight in Berlin and thankfully they rock the fark out so hearing some douche on his phone will not be a problem.

S.A.S.Q.U.A.T.C.H.: TA fans are creepy because they're always way too much into TA.

Also, every straight male fan I've met looks something like this.

It's not right.

The gay fans, of which there are, of course, a hell of a lot, don't really look like that.

I don't look like that, either. But, then again, I haven't really been any type of a fan since around the time To Venus and Back came out. Everything since then has been enormously disappointing.

Godscrack: Good for her.

Exactly.

If I have paid money for anything, be it a concert/movie/comedy show/play/whatever, and you are on your farking cellphone anywhere near me - I will tell you to shut the fark up, and if you continue, then I WILL take it from you. No questions asked.

/just ask the little douchebag girls at the showing of Big Fish I saw.

The girlfriend is making me take her to her show in Atlanta.

Then again, she went with me to Disturbed and is also going with me to Chickenfoot, so I guess I sort of owe it to her.

I think I'm going to be one of 10 guys there, and I can already tell the air of animosity toward me by other women is going to be incredibly thick.

Or it could be a totally awesome time, I really don't know.

Keywork99: The girlfriend is making me take her to her show in Atlanta.

Then again, she went with me to Disturbed and is also going with me to Chickenfoot, so I guess I sort of owe it to her.

I think I'm going to be one of 10 guys there, and I can already tell the air of animosity toward me by other women is going to be incredibly thick.

Or it could be a totally awesome time, I really don't know.

Make sure you pronounce "womyn" with the Y in it. Otherwise they'll be on you like a pack of sharks on a wounded seal.

DjangoStonereaver: Note to self: never go to a concert, play or movie with tagjim

OK, I lol'd. I'm really not that bad, and I agree that cell phones are inappropriate at times when it's expected that the audience should stay quiet. No matter how much a performer tries to "bring it down" a concert, at least every concert I've been to, ain't exactly a quiet place. Plus I can't stand the "you're interfering WITH MY ART" attitude that some performers cop. That's all.

/Now, about parents who bring babies into movie theaters...

What if somebody is waiting for a liver transplant? They have their phone on vibration mode so it won't go beep-beep-beep and interfere with your show. They're just waiting their with their iglo cooler for the call. And what are you going to do Ms lesbian singer-songwriter? Are you going to hand him an onion? Liver and Onions that's not even funny!


/I know I butchered it

What irks me as much as the cell phone users are the ones who score front row seats and leave every 15 minutes during the show to get more (overpriced) alcohol from the lobby.

/have seen Tori every tour since Under The Pink, but I'm sitting out this tour

Bull dike lesbos and beta males listen to Tori Amos.

/seriously

DalaiLamaDingDong: Not as many people smoke these days, so cellphones are the new lighters.

/smoker
//doesn't own a cellphone

I think it's a ridiculous practise. Holding up a cell phone takes no effort. I lost a thumbprint thanks to a band playing a double encore (those zippos get hot).

Also, seconding or thirding or nthing the "concert where you can hear people talking on cell phones sound pretty lame". Guy in front of me once took out his phone opened and closed it (hanging up on the person), and immediately texted them back: "Too loud. These guys are not from earth".

I'm sick of the technological crutch of cell phones. No one can just experience anything anymore. They're tweeting, texting and taking pictures every thirty seconds to announce to the world that they're awesome instead of actually enjoying the moment.

I had this happen at Radiohead last year. I was expecting the crowd to be a bunch of hipster douches who just swayed to the music and occasionaly wept. Instead my expensive ticket put me behind frat boys that seemed more like Nickelback fans. Taking pics of themselves screaming and bro-hugging while their phones lit up four seats around them. Not to mention going ape-nuts over every single song, and I quote "Farking MORNING BELL....WOOOOOOT!" Morning Bell. Seriously. I love the tune, but it's not the rebellious anthem you're making it out to be.

I expect this shiat at a Green Day Show, but RADIOHEAD?

What's wrong with the world today?

Keywork99: The girlfriend is making me take her to her show in Atlanta.

Then again, she went with me to Disturbed and is also going with me to Chickenfoot, so I guess I sort of owe it to her.

wow, one of the few times a guys chick has vastly superior taste in music to the guy. shes gonna dump you.

Mr. Vincent Vega: I'm sick of the technological crutch of cell phones. No one can just experience anything anymore. They're tweeting, texting and taking pictures every thirty seconds to announce to the world that they're awesome instead of actually enjoying the moment.

I had this happen at Radiohead last year. I was expecting the crowd to be a bunch of hipster douches who just swayed to the music and occasionaly wept. Instead my expensive ticket put me behind frat boys that seemed more like Nickelback fans. Taking pics of themselves screaming and bro-hugging while their phones lit up four seats around them. Not to mention going ape-nuts over every single song, and I quote "Farking MORNING BELL....WOOOOOOT!" Morning Bell. Seriously. I love the tune, but it's not the rebellious anthem you're making it out to be.

I expect this shiat at a Green Day Show, but RADIOHEAD?

What's wrong with the world today?

you sound like you have a music hipster douchebag. and most likely fat.

/the first clue was going to a radiohead concert