Tinder is killing pubs, clubs and live music venues, promoter claims
Tinder is killing pubs, clubs and live music venues,
promoter claims
'We need to get young people off their phones and back
into our bars to actually socialise or we're all going to go out of business'
By CHRISTOPHER HOOTON Tuesday 18 August 2015
Tinder is frequently blamed for the death of romance and
the general decline of Western civilisation, but now something’s been added to
the list of things it has apparently ruined you might not have thought of: live
music.
In a Facebook post, the owner of Cherry Bar in Melbourne
Australia recalled a recent conversation:
“I had an interesting chat last night at Yah Yah's with
another Melbourne Promoter. We were discussing the fact that 2015 was a tough
year…He posed a theory I had never heard before:
“'You've forgotten the most important factor of all.
Tinder has destroyed the live music and pub scene. First, look at Grinder and
the gay scene. Grindr came two years before Tinder. Commercial Road Prahran
used to be a thriving late night gay hot spot. Now, it's dead as a door nail.
It's over. Now we are seeing the same thing with Tinder. This is how young
people "pick up" these days. I see them in the office. They're on it
all the time. They're not going out to clubs and pubs to pick up anymore. They're
just picking up their phones. Tinder is killing off clubs and pubs all over
Melbourne and Australia. And when they take their dates out for the first time,
they try to impress them with some chic dining experience, rather than a rowdy
live music experience. I'm telling you, Tinder has alot to answer for. It's
bleak out there for club owners. These are dark and challenging times. We need
to get young people off their phones and back into our bars to actually
socialise or we're all going to go out of business.’ Mind blown.”
On one hand the rant by the anonymous promoter sounds a
little ‘old man shouts at internet’, but on the other it’s hard to deny the
amorous motivations behind a lot of nights out and how a few of them might now
be ditched in favour of a night spent swiping away on the sofa.
The Facebook post caused a lengthy debate on the page for
the bar (which the owner claims is actually doing fine right now), with
followers suggesting that a lack of disposable income and affordable housing in
inner cities, where venues are usually located, were also factors.
“Sex is the theatre of the poor,” Cherry Bar concluded,
quoting Oscar Wilde.
Last week, Twitter issued a lengthy rebuttal on Twitter
after Vanity Fair accused the app of bringing about a “dating apocalypse”.
@christophhooton
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