As Christina Aguilera will have you know, phones are bad. Placebo seem to agree — so if you plan on catching them live on their North American tour next year, it's probably not the moment to post your BeReal.
The duo of Brian Molko and Stefan Olsda are set to begin touring their new album Never Let Me Go in the UK and Ireland tomorrow night (November 18) in Portsmouth, and they've shared a message to fans via social media, discouraging attendees from spending "the concert filming or taking photos with your mobile phones."
"It makes Placebo's performance so much more difficult," the message explained, adding that having your phone during the show is "disrespectful" to fellow concertgoers. "Please be here and now in the present and enjoy the moment," they continued. "Because this exact moment will never ever happen again. Our purpose is to create communion & transcendence. Please help us on our mission."
The presence of phones at concerts has long been a divisive issue, with one Scottish music festival even going so far as to ban them in 2019. But are they more or less annoying than people who talk during the opening act?
Like Placebo's perception of phone use impeding connection at their shows, Ridley Scott blamed those damn tech-obsessed millennials for letting The Last Duel flop. But let's face it: we can't all be those salt-of-the-earth types like Neil Young and his flip phone. Even Jack White, who was once quite famously not a cellphone user, earlier this year mentioned that he uses an iPhone.
See the post from the band below.
The duo of Brian Molko and Stefan Olsda are set to begin touring their new album Never Let Me Go in the UK and Ireland tomorrow night (November 18) in Portsmouth, and they've shared a message to fans via social media, discouraging attendees from spending "the concert filming or taking photos with your mobile phones."
"It makes Placebo's performance so much more difficult," the message explained, adding that having your phone during the show is "disrespectful" to fellow concertgoers. "Please be here and now in the present and enjoy the moment," they continued. "Because this exact moment will never ever happen again. Our purpose is to create communion & transcendence. Please help us on our mission."
The presence of phones at concerts has long been a divisive issue, with one Scottish music festival even going so far as to ban them in 2019. But are they more or less annoying than people who talk during the opening act?
Like Placebo's perception of phone use impeding connection at their shows, Ridley Scott blamed those damn tech-obsessed millennials for letting The Last Duel flop. But let's face it: we can't all be those salt-of-the-earth types like Neil Young and his flip phone. Even Jack White, who was once quite famously not a cellphone user, earlier this year mentioned that he uses an iPhone.
See the post from the band below.
