With arts venues across the country introducing increasingly strict and contradictory food and mobile phone policies, what should the conscientious audience member be doing, asks David Lister.
One of the more puzzling indignities I have suffered at an arts event was at a Leonard Cohen concert at the O2 arena in London.
I took in to the gig a bottle of water I had bought a few steps away. The steward insisted that I (and all other attenders with water) unscrew and hand over the top. When I asked why, he replied that it was to stop us hurling the bottles at the stage.
It conjured up a marvellous imag... Keep reading on The Independent
One of the more puzzling indignities I have suffered at an arts event was at a Leonard Cohen concert at the O2 arena in London.
I took in to the gig a bottle of water I had bought a few steps away. The steward insisted that I (and all other attenders with water) unscrew and hand over the top. When I asked why, he replied that it was to stop us hurling the bottles at the stage.
It conjured up a marvellous imag... Keep reading on The Independent