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Moshing
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Why the fuck do grown (the average age of people who mosh in odd places is about 33) men feel the need to do it? It fucking pisses me off so much. At a metal gig, fine I guess, but the fucking Arcade Fire at Reading what the fucking fuck!? The Pixies!? FUCKING CUNTS! I don't care if you're even doing it in ironic way, just fuck off. Indfact, if you're doing it in an ironic way you should be shot in the face repeatedly for three days.
Every band should just come onstage and say "moshing is for 13 year old virgins with small penises"
My new thing is to trip anyone who pisses me off by moshing up sneakily so they get hurt.
Jumping - Fine
Dancing - Fine
Moshing - FUCKING GET AWAY FROM ME YOU HAIRY SWEATY FUCKING MORON
That's another thing, taking off your shirt at gigs does not make you any less hot. it just makes you cover other people in your sweat.
God damn the world.
Why the fuck do grown (the average age of people who mosh in odd places is about 33) men feel the need to do it? It fucking pisses me off so much. At a metal gig, fine I guess, but the fucking Arcade Fire at Reading what the fucking fuck!? The Pixies!? FUCKING CUNTS! I don't care if you're even doing it in ironic way, just fuck off. Indfact, if you're doing it in an ironic way you should be shot in the face repeatedly for three days.
Every band should just come onstage and say "moshing is for 13 year old virgins with small penises"
My new thing is to trip anyone who pisses me off by moshing up sneakily so they get hurt.
Jumping - Fine
Dancing - Fine
Moshing - FUCKING GET AWAY FROM ME YOU HAIRY SWEATY FUCKING MORON
That's another thing, taking off your shirt at gigs does not make you any less hot. it just makes you cover other people in your sweat.
God damn the world.
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well said. i was completely appalled to see kids "moshing" at muse as well as bloc party. very very sad.
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It's a slightly tenuous hypothesis but I think actually dancing (as opposed to just jumping about / leaning from side to side / nodding your head) gets you into more music, it helps you 'get' some kinds of music so much better on a basic level.
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Maybe moshing helps you get into rock, but I never really felt the need in my teen alt-rock-loving years. Rock can be danced to properly and it's more fun.
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YOU DON'T MOSH AT THE SECRET MACHINES!!
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SERIOUSLY! YOU DON'T!
Gah, stupid people.
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one of my friends got hurt, but it serves him right.
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I dont think it detracts from the music at a gig like that, it's almost more like dancing, just very violently and I can't see much easier ways to react to rhythms like theirs.
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One of the reasons the Futureheads are great is that they tell people not to crowd surf. Barry got quite pissed off with someone when I saw them in Newcastle...
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Having fun is fine, when it encrouches on other people's enjoyment it is not. I'd be ok with it if the moshing area was a fenced off bit at the back.
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They have no problem with looking like a nipple, let them do it.
Also... '13 year old virgins'... Is there supposed to be some irony in that?
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I think the victimisation of the mosher is not a good thing, it takes away from the real villain of the concert hall: The Talker
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Moshers don't have the fucking right of way to go to the front anyway, they're generally the one's who aren't looking at the band/listening to the music.
Everyone should take my advice and trip the bastards over. I did it twice yesterday and felt very happy with myself.
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Crowd surfing's a bit antisocial though.
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I kicked a crowd surfer at a Skunk Anansie gig once because he fell on me and it really really hurt, then i got scared and ran away, i was young, i ate a cheeseburger.
I'm a bit of a gig facist actually, i hate everyone, people who clap during songs (unless it's instigated by the band), moshers, surfers, pushers in, people who heckle and worst of all people who sing along; if i wanted to hear them i'd Mic' up their shower, i've paid to see the band!
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Actually, being tall, I'm always conscious of standing in front of little people, I tend to invite any who end up behind me to move in front.
Can I add people who wear big hats to gigs (you're indoors and you cannot possibly be cold. Take it off so I can see past you, dick), and anyone who has ever gotten up onto someone else's shoulders and stayed there for more than a few seconds. If I didn't love beer so much I'd throw my beer at those bastards!
But The Talker is by far the worst. Anything else you can pretty much ignore.
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