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Over half of clubbers think that smartphones are ruining the\u00a0dancefloor\u00a0experience, according to a new study.<\/p>\n
A survey of 2000 adults in the UK in October, commissioned by Meta and conducted by Censuswide, revealed that over\u00a050 per cent\u00a0of people attending nightclubs\u00a0agree that phones are ruining the dancefloor, despite 55 per cent of them admitting to using their phone while on it.<\/p>\n
The same study found that 60 per cent of people use their phones on the\u00a0dancefloor\u00a0to capture themselves and their friends dancing, while 34 per cent use them to share content on social media and communicate with friends.<\/p>\n
Additionally, 47 per cent said that it is the music itself that makes the dancefloor special, ahead of 43 per cent claiming that it is the feeling of dancing with friends and 31 per cent saying it is the\u00a0experience of being lost in the moment that is the most special.<\/p>\n\n
London clubbing veteran DJ Fat Tony has commented on the findings, saying: \u201cPhones have been a blessing and a curse in my DJing life. While I love to be able to document so many special moments, their overuse has certainly ruined the vibe on many a dancefloor at the most iconic establishments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cClubbing is all about energy and connection to the music, and while capturing that matters, the reality\u00a0is\u00a0screens take us out of the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPreserving the magic of club culture is really important to me,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0seen dancefloors from different eras and corners of the world, and one thing will never change\u00a0\u2013\u00a0I\u00a0always want to look out from the booth and see people\u00a0truly losing\u00a0themselves in the music. As we look toward a new era of clubbing,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0exciting to think that technology once feared to kill the dancefloor might now be the thing that saves it.\u201d<\/p>\n
DJ Fat Tony recently held a phone-free night in London, having first introduced smartphone bans on the\u00a0dancefloor\u00a0nearly eight\u00a0years ago.<\/p>\n
Last year,\u00a0the luxury hotel Pikes Ibiza announced that they were banning phones and cameras<\/a>, following the success of their Monday night phone-free policy.\u00a0\u201cKeeping your phone in your pocket and your mind on the music \u2013 and knowing that everyone around you is doing the same \u2013 opens up a whole world of freedom, not only on the dancefloor but all around Pikes and so, we\u2019ve decided to introduce the policy seven nights a week,\u201d they said at the\u00a0time.<\/p>\n The no-phone policy has been a long-standing practice in many elite clubs around Europe for several years, with London\u2019s Fabric and Fold enforcing such a ban.<\/p>\n The post Half of all clubbers think that phones are ruining the dancefloor<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over half of clubbers think that smartphones are ruining the\u00a0dancefloor\u00a0experience, according to a new study. A survey of 2000 adults in the UK in October, commissioned by Meta and conducted by Censuswide, revealed that over\u00a050 per cent\u00a0of people attending nightclubs\u00a0agree that phones are ruining the dancefloor, despite 55 per cent of them admitting to using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}