You're at a Concert, your favorite band... Arena Venue, 80,000 people...
The band come on stage with a bang, pyrotechnics blast as they burst into the first song, you are in the front section of the moshpit, jumping, screaming, singing along... you know all the words, two more songs pass...
The band decides to play an older song, a classic, the lead singer looks down at the audience and shouts "who wants to come up and sing this one?" You Scream loudly.... he looks at you and points... You're lifted up on stage, lights on you, people cheering. You're given a microphone and the music starts...
"People have paid to see the band, they havn't paid to see you" you think to yourself, but for some reason they are cheering, cheering YOU!
This is what happened at Green Day's concert last Friday, it is actualy a common thing for the band to do at their gigs and it is a reflection of something which seems to be slowly fading away in the live music scene... Crowd Comradery...
A moshpit used to be the greatest place to see a band, you were right near the front of stage, the performers staring right at you and in most cases it still is, but it seems that there is something dissappearing from the pit, the mateship, it is becoming a place for violence, to hurt others. This is not what the mosh is about.
The mosh is a place to release energy, to jump... sometime people collide and this is usually mutual and well really not that full on, it is a place where everyone has a shared joy, music. But in recent years a new type of mosher has appeared, they are usually shirtless, they think they are the only one there and they are a complete and utter tool.. they are the Southern cross bogan.
These are the epitomy of what a mosher is becoming, they will force their way into a pit, their sweat brushing off onto others who dont want to be covered in it, they will form "Death Circles" a practice where they will force a circle in the middle of the mosh and proceed to use it as a barrier of people to hurl themselves at full force... guys or girls. They are the exact opposite of what music is all about, they are there to make everyone else's experience a bad one becuase thats what they get off on,
The truth is that these people are so far only seen at Festivals and some concerts, but their attitude is one that may spread and so i write this to use the Green Day Concert as an example... Music is a thing to share, it is a common ground, Support your fellow fans, unite... and go fucking nuts Together!!! Because thats what the mosh was created for, a unison of enegergetic fans, jumping together..
these are the people I'd expect to find in the "f*@k off we're full" pages on facebook. Damn yobos...
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