{"id":29961,"date":"2024-07-19T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bob-dylan-criticized-by-blurs-damon-albarn-for-phone-free-concerts\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:02:47","slug":"bob-dylan-criticized-by-blurs-damon-albarn-for-phone-free-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bob-dylan-criticized-by-blurs-damon-albarn-for-phone-free-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan criticized by Blur\u2019s Damon Albarn for phone-free concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-19\/Getty_BobDylan_071924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Dave J Hogan\/Getty Images for ABA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> recently announced a U.K.\/European leg to his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour and <strong>Blur<\/strong> frontman <strong>Damon Albarn<\/strong> has some issues with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Seems\u00a0Dylan requires\u00a0all concert attendees\u00a0to lock up their phones in a Yondr pouch that can only be opened when they leave the building \u2014 and Albarn doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf you start banning things where does it end? I think you\u2019ve just got to turn up and do your thing,\u201d Albarn told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cw9yw1z7dw8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\"> Breakfast<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. &#8220;People won\u2019t want to be on their phone if you\u2019re engaging with them correctly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Music fans recording and taking pictures on their phones\u00a0is pretty commonplace at live shows these days and Dylan isn\u2019t the only artist who\u00a0has required fans to be phone free. <strong>The White Stripes<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Jack White<\/strong> and comedian <strong>Dave Chappelle<\/strong>\u00a0have also used Yondr pouches at their live shows.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The European\/U.K. Rough and Rowdy Ways\u00a0tour kicks off with a three-night stand in Prague Oct. 4-6 and wraps with a three-night stand at London\u2019s iconic Royal Albert Hall Nov. 12-14. Tickets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/on-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>are on sale<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave J Hogan\/Getty Images for ABA Bob Dylan recently announced a U.K.\/European leg to his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour and Blur frontman Damon Albarn has some issues with it. Seems\u00a0Dylan requires\u00a0all concert attendees\u00a0to lock up their phones in a Yondr pouch that can only be opened when they leave<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bob-dylan-criticized-by-blurs-damon-albarn-for-phone-free-concerts\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}