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.

It could also be a case of severe addiction; I’ve too often been at (different kinds of) performances where people felt the need to play games or watch sports (at their kid’s school play no less), too often for adhd. And many times it’s a boomer, so the screen goes on max brightness for visibility.

I’m thankful I’m always inattentive while listening so everyone just kinda knows from the start.

I don't mind someone doing whatever on their phone out of sight. But this shit drives me insane. You won't watch that damn video ever again in your life, stop ruining it for everyone else!

And he will never really watch those videos more than one time. Which means it would have been better not filming and enjoying the performance right there, in better quality.

That would have pissed me off so much if it was last night because Squeeze is one of my favorite bands and I've wanted to see them since I was in elementary school.

There was another guy a few rows down capturing video with his lights on. Thankfully, he only did it a couple of times for about 30 seconds, but I felt bad for all the people he was shining that light on, and another lady who thought no one could see or smell the huge cloud from the vape she was "secretly" bending down and hitting every few minutes. This was in an indoor theater. I'm glad there were no kids around.

Why are people so damn inconsiderate of others?

Infuriating. I'm thankful honestly when I've been to shows that force you to put your phone in a secured container that you cannot access during the show. Makes it a million times better

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.

Theaters here ask people not to text during the movie. It's not about sound distraction, it's a bright, visual distraction.

Throw it overboard...

Nope, he was by himself. I don't know why he went.

Like I said, he was playing games on his phone, so there was no emergency. We watched him do a crossword puzzle while we were trying to not be distracted.

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.

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.