As we headed to our seats, we talked about how this was surprising, because it seems to buck the trend of concerts being a sea of people holding up their phones, taking selfies and posting something to social media before the encore even ends.
A woman a couple of seats from us did record a bit of"Angel from Montgomery." But for the most part, people didn’t use their phone to record anything. For the most part, even though some use of phones was allowed — for instance, you could text someone — people weren’t looking at their phones.It turns out that’s why Bonnie Raitt has these rules for her shows.
The Bonnie Raitt show made me think about that. If she didn’t have that rule, would I have taken some photos and video? Probably.Raitt is hardly the only artist trying to keep people off their phones. If people wanted to use their phone at any time, they could head to “Phone Use Areas” on the concourse. But when they were in their seats, the phones had to stay locked in the pouches.
Numa Saisselin, president of The Florida Theatre, said their official house policy is to allow photo and video taken discreetly from your seat with a smart phone. No cameras or flash photography. No full-size tablets held aloft.“Speaking personally,” he said, “what I like about going to a show is allowing the show experience to take my mind somewhere else, and that's not going to happen when you're handling a phone.
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