Best band reaction to bad concert etiquette

Iceage at Crowbar

Bands like Savages and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are content with using signs and sloganeering to command the crowd’s attention. Elias Bender Rønnenfelt — of visiting Scandinavian punk outfit Iceage — demanded it more aggressively. Shortly into the quartet’s first song of the June 8 show, the waifish Rønnenfelt took a break from his barking and stage-stalking to give a swift boot to the hands of a person in the front row who was engrossed in his cell phone. Message sent: silence yourself. crowbarlive.com, aestheticized.com/

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