Annie Mac has had it with cell phones in the club. Her latest interview with Music Week tells all, with her most recent gripe concerning people’s intense need to take excessive photos and videos during her show. “…it was constant phones in my face,” she says. The epidemic wasn’t just one area; Mac says her High 5 tour saw a significant uptick in phone usage from a short two years ago in each location in which she played. The rise in Live-streaming may have been the cause of this bigger surge in screens in the air at the club. Between that, Instagramming, Facebooking, snap chatting, Myspacing, and possibly Xanga-ing…she says it best herself: “There was this constant kind of need for documentation of the night and it just killed my fucking vibe”.
Sadly, it’s difficult for anyone to fight the urge to record what they want everyone else to experience at an event, even knowing it will come at the expense of theirs. Mac goes on to talk about how the biggest goal of clubbing is to connect with the people who are there and wants to see more venues like New York’s Output and Berlin’s Berghain forbid the use of front and back facing cameras so people can look up and enjoy the music. “I hope it will become the norm – I think that would be really good for clubbing in general.”
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