Eurovision Village Malmö - You can't come in! Live Italy and Albania

Continuing our Eurovision day (my 70th birthday) on May 7th, we leave the Malmö Arena, take a train to Eurovision Street and walk to the Eurovision Village in Folkets Park.
I'd checked up before we came and knew that any kind of bags were not allowed in the village, but no mention of cameras, so I went up filming as usual and got a shock!
No Cameras Allowed. I'm told "no electronic devices", so I asked why everyone is going in with their phones. "Phones are OK" he said! Maybe they don't have cameras on phones in Sweden???
There were a few seconds of confusion before he said there were lockers a couple of hundred metres away. We finally found them - a big block of portable electronic lockers, not staffed, so no-one to be there if a box popped open unexpectedly!
I put in all my expensive cameras and we went back in with just our phones no problem.
We were treated to Italy and Albania live on stage. Actually I think Italy may have been lip-syncing as I got a copyright strike and have had to mute it.
We were back in Denmark for the live semi-final, watched it from our Airbnb
Equipment used: Osmo Pocket 4, Insta 360 X3 and for the very first time, Galaxy A53
Editing software: Videoproc Vlogger, Gimp, Insta360 Studio
00:00 The show is over
00:26 Train to Village
00:41 Eurovision Street
01:19 You Can't Come in!
01:41 Italy Live
02:29 Albania Live
03:07 Leaving the Village
04:05 Train back to Denmark

[@froome05]

Nice video! Mostly cameras (but not phones) are forbidden at such events (also at football games). The reason is that cameras can take photos/videos with higher quality which could be used in a commercial way so only people from the press are allowed to have them with them.

[@timsharp]

Thanks for the comment. I understand that they might want to restrict professional looking camera equipment, but an Osmo Pocket 3 that only has a 2x zoom is hardly likely to take better video than a phone with a 12x zoom. I did check thoroughly before we went that there was no problem with cameras, so I think either they were becoming even more vigilant (they did say the rules could change due to circumstances) or that guy just didn't like me filming and took it upon himself to say cameras were banned, even though it may well just have been professional cameras that he had the right to refuse - I'll probably never know. I had no problem taking the cameras into the Arena for the actual Eurovision show. Sorry, rant over, I do appreciate you taking the time to explain.

[@skyscraper7664]

Love this POV.

[@timsharp]

Thanks