Moshpits. Why?
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kained&able
Here for the football.
and besides cricle pits can be fucking violent. I've been in a couple of scary ones.
oh and there are a few straight edge bands that are allright! minor threat for a start!
dave
oh and there are a few straight edge bands that are allright! minor threat for a start!
dave
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I used to love American hardcore bands - there was a promoter called Flame In Hand in Leeds that put them on at the Duchess Of York and went to nearly all of them indiscriminatelyMoggy said:The bigger question is why the fuck did you go see a straight edge band?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I still stage dive, mosh etc. It has to be a band I love and not too pussy, I'm not talking metal or grunge like.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
I'd still satge dive if I wasn't so err large . It's ok for small people but if I land on someones head it's gonna fucking hurtATOMIC SUPLEX said:
For some strange reason I've found that the more violent the mosh pit the less bruiosed I am when I come out , with the exception of demented are go where I got my teeth knocked out
El Sueno
Dabbler
Moshing's great - good friendly, violent fun as Exodus used to say back in the day. All elbows, innit. Bruised ribs and big smiles.
I remember getting teargassed at Kreator, at The Astoria in 88/89. Try explaining that to your mum on a school night. The security had obviously never seen a mosh pit before, they thought a riot was breaking out and probably thought it was best to take out the first few rows before they had a lawsuit on their hands.
I almost got my neck broke at Corrosion of Conformity at The Astoria too. It was well intense, my mate tapped me on the shoulder and told me he was heading back to the bar, I said I'd follow him - by this point my arms were pressed into my body and I couldn't move them - I turned back and someone landed on my head, knocking it sideways. I had the most awful ringing in my ears and was seriously afraid to try and move it until about ten minutes later.
I'm a big lad too - whenever I stage dive I seem to fly through people's fingertips and land flat on my back! Oh, the joys of stagediving.
I remember getting teargassed at Kreator, at The Astoria in 88/89. Try explaining that to your mum on a school night. The security had obviously never seen a mosh pit before, they thought a riot was breaking out and probably thought it was best to take out the first few rows before they had a lawsuit on their hands.
I almost got my neck broke at Corrosion of Conformity at The Astoria too. It was well intense, my mate tapped me on the shoulder and told me he was heading back to the bar, I said I'd follow him - by this point my arms were pressed into my body and I couldn't move them - I turned back and someone landed on my head, knocking it sideways. I had the most awful ringing in my ears and was seriously afraid to try and move it until about ten minutes later.
I'm a big lad too - whenever I stage dive I seem to fly through people's fingertips and land flat on my back! Oh, the joys of stagediving.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
Once I managed to knock myself out by stagediving into one of those pillars at the Camden Underworld !
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
sojourner said:You know, I always wondered how you did that, when I've seen your pics on here
but youv'e been too polite to ask
I don't think I've ever been asked how I lost my teeth because people are just too polite to ask me
Heh, reminds me of the time I thought I was gonna get crushed to death at a Joe Strummer gig. I'd managed to squeeze me way to the front and there was this stupid fucking metal barrier about 6 foot from the stage. My cunning plan to jump over it was foiled by several hundred moshers surrounding me and I ended with my ribs being crushed against the fenceEl Sueno said:
I started punching backwards and managed to damage enough peoples faces for them to try and move away from me. It might have been only millimetres but it made all the difference subversplat
writer of wrongs
Me and a few other peeps managed to get Big Iain to stage diveSavage Henry said:I'd still satge dive if I wasn't so err large . It's ok for small people but if I land on someones head it's gonna fucking hurt
And we caught him!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I once stage dived at a disco night - the crowd didn't know they were supposed to catch me and parted like the red sea so I landed on my nose. It hurt a bit.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
subversplat said:Me and a few other peeps managed to get Big Iain to stage dive
And we caught him!
But you planned to catch him , I bet everyone else ran out the way
I bumped into big Ian at Rise the other day and I'm planning a visit soon so I'll have to catch up with you and Dan
subversplat
writer of wrongs
The worst I ever saw like that was at the Garage for (I think) No Use For A Name where some incredibly pretty young punk girl stage dived into a group of blokes who completly failed to catch her as, I guess, they were too worried about inadvertantly grabbing hold of her girlie bitsOrang Utan said:
The look of pain on her face as her knees twatted the floor followed soon after by the rest of her was not nice.((anonymous punk girl))
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Oh yeah!Savage Henry said:I'll have to catch up with you and Dan
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
What everyone else said, moshing's ace, especially when younger, can't do a full gig in the pit these days, smoking doesn't help. Used to be quite proud of myself for ability not to fall over in the pit, but the fact that a crowd of metalers could go from hitting each other to clearing a big circle and helping someone back to their feet in seconds always gave me faith in human nature.
Only got hurt a few times, once kicked in the face by the lead singer of therapy?, and once thought i'd broken my neck when a stage diver landed on me at a one minute silence gig. Walked gingerly to the back and found a roadie looking type...
"i think i've broken my neck"
"tilt your head to the left"
"ok"
"now tilt your head to the right"
"ok"
"well, you haven't broken your neck cos doing that would have just killed you"
Only got hurt a few times, once kicked in the face by the lead singer of therapy?, and once thought i'd broken my neck when a stage diver landed on me at a one minute silence gig. Walked gingerly to the back and found a roadie looking type...
"i think i've broken my neck"
"tilt your head to the left"
"ok"
"now tilt your head to the right"
"ok"
"well, you haven't broken your neck cos doing that would have just killed you"
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
Not really the most 'rawk' band.....but the reef gigs I went to as a yout always had a great pit.....that band really knew how to work the crowd....
I'd like to know the answer to this one, both my girls seem to think that a gig without a mosh pit is the most boring thing in the world, but from what I remember in my youff, I couldn't stand them. The idea of being jumped on and trampled on really didn't appeal. Mind you being only 5ft might cloud my views.
I've always hated moshing, man .. even when I was a fair bit younger ...
They were moshing big style at the Inner Terrestrials ( ) at Unsound on Saturday ....
I wimpily kept edgewards ..... dancing ... a little bit ....
They were moshing big style at the Inner Terrestrials (
) at Unsound on Saturday .... I wimpily kept edgewards ..... dancing ... a little bit ....
William of Walworth said:I've always hated moshing, man .. even when I was a fair bit younger ...
They were moshing big style at the Inner Terrestrials (
I wimpily kept edgewards ..... dancing ... a little bit ....
yeh but your a 'ippy..
your let off.
I love compliments ...
Cheers!
I passed one of em a bit of a spliff while he was wimplily resting ...
Cheers!
I passed one of em a bit of a spliff while he was wimplily resting ...
loud 1 said:as always will
respect
Cheers mate!
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