[Gradus]

[Nemo]

I wonder what is the relevance of your message. you are pissed off because of the digital cameras that disturbed you. we are all disturb by this kind of thing and so what ???

I think the message of KB could be a good thing if she kept it only for her audience, not this way through the social medias. it causes an amount of overreactions and personnally I don't like this heavy atmosphere before attending her show.

[Jessie]

My reaction when I read that was, 'good luck with that Kate.'
I don't take many pictures but I do take videos.
Part of me really enjoys living in the moment and enjoying each song without a camera.
But the other part of me really enjoys watching the couple of songs I've filmed from a show many times afterward, and other people, thousands of people, enjoy them on youtube.
I am so thankful for some of the concert footage from Joanna shows. And others of my favorite musicians.
What would I do without those fantastic live versions of Esme and Baby Birch?
But a clicking camera? Sounds annoying.

[ambergrismarch]

aagh i'm pulled in two directions here.

the thing is, i really dislike people's tendencies to take multitudes of pictures that will ultimately turn out terribly. it's disruptive, i think, even if only because the random lights draw your eye away from the stage.

but, in the case of kate's shows that were next to impossible to get in to, i would like it if at least one show could be filmed. even professionally - i do think this set of shows warrants it. there's pretty much no footage of her performing from this decade - i would very much like to see her performing songs from albums that i have purchased legally, thank you very much.

it'd be cool if there could be one designated professional photographer/videographer or something, rather than many people recording footage of poor quality. like jessie, i am thankful for a lot of joanna concert footage, especially stuff like green man 2005 and the like.

[dwaink]

yeah it is a pain, and we all hate it, even those of us that do it sometimes...then i think of the insane amount of grateful dead shows we have in one format or another, and Jerry's death, that came along way too soon, and i am happy that someone was recording all that stuff, or Bob Marley's girlfriend recording the song he did for her...there is no way we would have this stuff if someone were not recording at some point...listen Kate and Joanna went down to the crossroads and did the deal with the devil, they decided to be public musicians, and doing so puts them in this place they are so uncomfortable being in...but they have made nice livings off of it too...yes they deserve privacy...no they can't demand it...some of us will film and 30 years from now when someone watches it, they will know the reason why