An Australian promoter is rather randomly blaming the decline of live music on the dating app Tinder.

James Young - the owner of Melbourne's Cherry Bar is adamant that social media sites are to blame for the recent closures of many bars and clubs. He said: "[Another promoter told me Tinder] is how young people 'pick up' these days. They're not going out to clubs and pubs to pick up any more. 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 a lot 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.

"Another 'factor' in decreased attendance at Bars in 2015 in Melbourne Australia is that Netflix and chilling on the couch is the 'new dating'

"Also 'binge TV' series watching is seen to be affordable and rewarding entertainment. Whilst live music can be expensive and hit and miss."

In my opinion, James rather misses the point. He is blaming dating apps, specifically Tinder on people not wanting to go out to bars but in saying this, he is assuming that the only reason people go out to bars and clubs is to procreate and that's insulting to people who still go to clubs for the atmosphere and to socialise with friends. He is all but calling the public lazy for not wanting to go out, throw themselves at a randomer and add another STD to the collection. As a promoter, his comments are worrying as they imply that he just doesn't have a grasp of the times.

Maybe the general public have become lazy but in our world where communication has never been so simple but is becoming digitalised as a result, we are slowly loosing our face to face social skills. I agree that this is very unfortunate and worrying but it is also merely a symptom of the technology that we now have access to. By Young complaining about it, he is showing that he is preferring to rigidly stick to his archaic methods of promotion rather than embracing changes to social culture.