Maybe they don’t remember anymore, but enjoying the live performance of Bob Dylan it was a dark landscape, without screens or reflections. In fact, if we look back and look at the public, the image contrasts sharply with the current one: that of any concert today in which the screens flood the horizon and we we have to tiptoe to see the artist who has also worked hard for us to enjoy his show.

For this reason, the lucky ones who are going to see Dylan on his tour of Spain this summer they will not be able to immortalize the performance with the mobile, because the singer has banned its use. In the street, we raised the question, and some agree and others do not, although they say that it is important to “live the experience” and put aside “the addiction to telephones.”

How do they lock our phones?

The question is how to get us to enjoy Dylan without the mobile. the american company Yondr has the solution and has been running this practice for years.

Graham Dugoni, CEO of the company, explains that “If you always divide your attention, a little on the show, a little on the people and while you’re texting, you’re never really doing anything”. “More than 90% of people understand it and they like the idea of ​​a free zone for mobile use in shows or schools and if you tell them from the good side, they assimilate it very well,” he adds.

Your mission is pick and pack the phone with the help of a super magnet which does not allow the case to be opened without its mechanism. In order to do so, they will have enabled areas in the venues. “Everyone has their phone in their pocket but they just can’t use it in the concert space,” Dugoni explains. There, the company’s staff is the one who demagnetizes it and releases the mobile.

More artists join the initiative

More and more artists are asking that the entire performance not be recorded, although it was Alicia Keys the pioneer in banning mobile phones seven years ago: in 2016 it was the first time he banned them.

All with the same objective: to allow our retinas to enjoy a unique moment at the concert, because seeing Bob Dylan live is a marvel, it is better, they say, that it only remains in our memory.