Band Of Horses Playing McCarren Park On Sunday
We’re excited since we’re huge fans of the band. More info on the McCarren Park show here.
Turns out, the band is a little touchy about being filmed/photographed. Here’s a video of Ben Bridwell acting all douchey and flicking off a fan for filming them at a recent performance in California. [Via BrooklynVegan]
Bridwell explains how he’s a prima donna to Pitchfork:
It seems to keep happening. You see it getting progressively worse. It’s almost like the skateboarding community, where everyone’s a fucking photographer now. You look at shots, and it’s hard to keep the photographers out of the shot, you know? It kind of seems like the same thing with indie rock; everyone’s got a fucking camera in their hand and, I don’t know, is there no sanctity left for live performance with going to a show and seeing it with your own eyes and remembering it? Do you have to tape every second, or even just your favorite song? I understand it, but it’s becoming annoying.
Get over yourself, fuckhead.
I agree with him, I don’t see the point in taking endless shitty videos and photographs.
He’s not a fuckhead at all; he’s right. I hate going to a show and being blinded by cameraphone flash after cameraphone flash right in my face. Ten bucks says the writer of this entry hasn’t watched an artist without the aid of a lens in years.