La Clique
Can’t use my camera, huh? Even though I paid £20 to get in? Hmm.
Edit: I should qualify that by saying La Clique itself was really good, and I thoroughly recommend it. I just think the idea that I’m somehow breaching their copyright is a pile of w*nk. What exactly is it they think they’re losing? Or that I’m going to do with it (except say how good it was)? No flash photography - fair enough, some of them are doing acrobatics, I get that - but no photography at all? What it says above.
And heh, I get the irony of saying that above a "Copyright Tom Clark" notice, but I would be delighted if I knew people were downloading and using my pictures - I’d just like to know about it so I could be delighted!
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22 August 2008
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I got pulled out of the crowd by a bouncer and ushered into a side-room whilst taking photos at a James Brown gig in glasgow. They said I had to delete everything on the memory card…i said why?…and they said it clearly states on the conditions on the back of the ticket that photogrpahy is not permitted…i pulled out my ticket and asked him to show me but he couldn’t cos the writing was so f*cking small.
Turns out i was drunk and all the photos were a blurred mess anyway.
Paul @ 31 October 2008
I was sitting there before the show with my camera bag and was just attaching the lens, when this twat comes over and tells me that there’s absolutely no photography and that he’ll explain at the beginning of the show. So I sit back down again, and spot some other bloke wandering around with a large lens on a Canon SLR so I asked him if he was the official photographer, and whether he knew why I wasn’t allowed to take pictures. He didn’t have any explanation. I told him it wasn’t like I needed to use a flash, so I wasn’t going to blind anyone while they were doing their thing.
So the bloke gets up at the start of the show (a 2 hour long show), and says that there’s not be absolutely no photography - no explanation. Annoying, but fair enough. So I put the camera away. Get it out again during the interval and take some photos of the venue and stuff, and this little twat comes scurrying over again and tells me to put the camera away. I told him fair enough, but that I wanted to know why, considering I’d paid £20 to get in. He said that it was infringement of their copyright and that footage of some of the acts had turned up on Youtube. I pointed out that it wasn’t a video camera - that it can’t even take frickin’ video - and that it was the interval - there wasn’t even any copyright to infringe. He wasn’t having it and told me to put it away. So I did.
After the show had finished, I got the camera out again - since the acts had all finished - and the wee twat came over and told me "I will have you removed if you don’t put that away". I argued with him again, ended up calling him a w*nker, and I was ushered away. It’s stupid. I was going to post all the images anyway - still might.
TC @ 31 October 2008
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