article_snippet: The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Lollapalooza are the latest in a string of concert venues and historic landmarks to ban the use of the controversial tech gadgets on The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Lollapalooza grounds.
article_snippet: While the latter has named 'GoPro attachments like sticks, selfie sticks & monopods' on its list of prohibited items, Coachella has banned festivalgoers from bringing 'Selfie sticks/Narsisstics (sic)'.
article_snippet: The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and LollapaloozaArts Festival Lollapalooza, are the latest in a string of concert venues and historic landmarks to ban selfie sticks on their grounds (file picture)
article_snippet: However, it remains unclear how organizers intend to identify and weed out 'narsisstics' at the gates of the festival, which begins in Indio, California on April 10 - more than three months before Lollapalooza.
article_snippet: And selfie sticks are not the only unusual items to be banned at the two festivals.
article_snippet: Coachella also prohibits blankets, chairs, flags, hula hoops, marker pens, stuffed animals and umbrellas on Coachella list .
article_snippet: The ban, first reported by Brooklyn Vegan , will prevent selfie sticks from obstructing festivalgoers' views of the stage - and could limit the illegal recording of performances, according to Rolling Stone .
article_snippet: And the gadgets are not the only unusual items to be banned at the two festivals.
article_snippet: Coachella also prohibits blankets, chairs, flags, hula hoops, markers, stuffed animals and umbrellas on its list (left and right)
article_snippet: According to NME , London's O2 Arena and Wembley Arena have prohibited London's O2 Arena and Wembley Arena, while CBC reports that France's Palace of Versailles and Rome's Colosseum also do not permit the use of the gadgets.