There’s one thing you could not have seen about Ghost’s 2025 world tour announcement earlier at the moment (Oct. 28).
The Tobias Forge-led Swedish band revealed a 55-date world tour of Europe and North America, with extra reveals to be introduced sooner or later. The North American leg contains a July efficiency at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard, which might be Ghost’s very first time enjoying at the enduring venue.
What followers could have missed, although, is a message included within the effective print on Ghost’s social media and their official web site, which states that the tour might be a “phone-free expertise.”
“This present might be a phone-free expertise. Telephones might be secured in Yondr pouches. Company keep possession of their telephones always,” the total message reads.
Ghost ‘Cellphone-Free Expertise’ Message on Web site
Ghost have applied a no-phones coverage for concert events up to now, particularly for his or her two September 2023 performances on the Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles. Attendees got Yondr pouches for his or her telephones, good watches and different associated equipment then as properly.
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“Anybody seen utilizing a tool throughout the efficiency might be escorted out of the venue by safety. We recognize your cooperating in making a phone-free viewing expertise,” the assertion concluded.
A Yondr pouch locks as soon as visitors enter the phone-free space. To make use of a cellphone that is inside a Yondr pouch, attendees should step exterior of the designated space, and it’ll unlock.
How Followers Really feel About the Cellphone-Free Coverage
Followers appear to be cut up over the rule, with some appreciating that they will not should see cellphone screens whereas making an attempt to look at the efficiency, and others upset that they will not have the ability to seize their very own content material.
“I went to a Ghost present on the Discussion board in LA earlier this 12 months they usually had been filming so no telephones allowed. It was superb. Each single individual was engaged within the music, band and efficiency. 10/10,” one particular person wrote on X.
“Everybody appears completely happy concerning the cellphone ban on Ghost’s new tour however give it some thought. There might be no new ritual content material to see. No new vids to scream about, no new gifs. Nothing. I actually don’t like this future,” wrote a fan with an opposing view.
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