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Something Witty:
--- Quote from: Damnable Fiend on 27 Nov 2010, 09:24 ---last night: I waited in line ages in -5 celsius weather yesterday with friends at a show. Once inside, we managed to snag spots at the front. hooray. but right at the start of the main act, some drunken asshole decided I looked easy to shove out of the way, and spent half the main act gradually pushing me to the right. Now, maybe this was the wrong move on my part, but I held on (in the process inadvertently undercutting two of my friends positions and forcing them into the second row.) Apparently this was happening from the other side too, as one of my friends later told me he'd been elbowed in the chest and tripped from behind. Anyways, when the guy finally lost his patience and actually started elbowing at me, I finally got tired of it, and fell back. Whereupon the drunken motherfucker highfived the two friends he'd been helping to get places for.
it was really shitty, and soured me on the rest of the show, mostly because I felt guilty for knocking my friends away. Turns out they had it even worse than I did in the second row, because there were more assholes there.
fuck popular metal shows.
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The correct response to this is to elbow him in the kidneys.
I used to enjoy mosh pits and being up front by the guard rail at shows, but some fucker got on the security guard's back and was carried along the rail and I got four bruised ribs trying to keep the wall of people from crushing my then-girlfriend(I was moderately successful, she was only squished, not crushed). Now when I go to shows I just sort of hang out at the back with my friends.
spoon_of_grimbo:
i always find it weird where people try to start pits at gigs where there clearly aren't even enough at the entire gig to form a decent moshpit.
a good example is the genghis tron gig i went to at coventry jailhouse a few years back. the venue is TINY, maybe only twice the size of my bedroom and i do not by any stretch of the imagination live in a big house. there were maybe 20 or 30 people there, including the band, merch guys, support band and bar staff. due to the ridiculously chaotic nature of GT's music, particularly the strange and constantly changing rhythms, it seems like it'd be pointless to try and dance/mosh as you'd never be able to keep time, but whatever. most of us were just stood a few feet from the stage staring openmouthed at the insane sounds that three guys were managing to wring out of synths and a guitar, but for some reason, three asymmetrically-fringed twats in skinny jeans (you know the type) decided to do the whole batter-the-fuck-out-of-anyone-nearby-and-do-spin-kicks shit. i had to step between them and my girlfriend-at-the-time to stop her getting kicked in the head, and thus spent a few songs getting kicked in the back as a result. i'm 6'2" and fairly stocky, but the guy stood next to me pretty much dwarfed me, and had been giving me the "these fucking kids, eh?" look every time the mosh brigade kicked off. he ended up elbowing one of the little shits in the face with some considerable force when they were in mid-air. i don't think it was calculated, more of a spontaneous fuck-off gesture, but the kid and his friends retreated to the back after that. i've been in the same position as that guy at several other gigs, i.e. administering a small amount of pit violence in order to put an end to an ongoing annoyance to everyone. i kinda think at times it's acceptible/necessary.
tbh though, this is one of the main reasons i tend to go to mainly punk/pop-punk gigs nowadays. there seems to be a much better sense of cameraderie/shared enthusiasm/community/whateveryouwannacallit in putting your arm around a friend (or indeed a stranger), both of you with your free fist in the air shouting/singing along, than there is in pushing/shoving/shitkicking.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Something Witty on 27 Nov 2010, 16:49 ---The correct response to this is to elbow him in the kidneys.
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Or you could go for the liver. You won't be doing anything he isn't doing to himself, your way just hurts a lot more.
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