So this isn't about Tom Chaplin's man boobs?

The cam-phones and talking ruined the gig? Not the dross that Keane perform?
Know what you mean though. It can be a tad annoying. I blame boys with toys.

I prefer the more radical feminist's solution.

I used to be a SEDD sufferer in that on experiencing something significant, I would ensure that the event is recorded. That way I would not forget the experience.

However, what happens is that the experience becomes unexperienced because you are now concentrating on recording the event, rather than being part of it.

These days I do have a camera on the phone but only use it in public if something demands to be captured like one of the kids eating a dog turd at the playground - that kind of thing.

there I was at end of the road salivating at the prospect of bon iver, got my place front stage right, the sun's shining, ale in hand and all's right in the world.

Only for some massively cock-headed twunt not only to, a) spoon his prodigious beer belly into the small of my back throughout the (incredible) set, but also b) hold his f * cking mobile phone right next to my ear to record the event.

tell ya, if it hadn't been such a wonderful sunny occasion I'd've ripped his feet off

- get your phone out in the crowd and it'll be moshed into dust before you can say "Hey guys that's my-"

just avoid, like you were going to go give them another chance anyway

Is the ONLY answer.

I saw Elbow on Wednesday and had to ask three people to take their boring discussion about the difficulty of getting babysitters on a weekday evening to the bar, so that the rest of us could listen to the band. To be fair, they shut up after a half-hearted comment about my needing to move closer to the front, to which a bigger bloke at my side said that they were the ones who should move.