Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies

‘There’ll be less pressure to whip your phone out to capture a moment if you’re confident there will be a guaranteed moment later on.’ Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

I confess that I was once one of the phone zombies whom Jason Okundaye rightfully criticises for obsessively recording concerts and performances (Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs, 3 May). Eventually, however, I learned to put the phone away when I realised that if I was just watching through a screen, then what was the point in paying for a ticket? I may as well have been sitting at a computer at home.

Perhaps the way to solve this is for concerts to have a “phone window” for a few minutes halfway through, where the band pauses and poses, and rattles off 30 seconds’ worth of popular riffs so that everyone can get their selfies and TikToks to confirm their presence for the Facebook update.