![]() Look hard enough and you’ll find countless artists advocating for the safety of their fans – everyone from Linkin Park to Adele. If someone gets seriously hurt, it’s about alerting security, getting a medic, and even signalling for the show to stop and space to be made. If you come across someone freaking out, you ask if they want to get crowdsurfed to safety, protected by someone larger, or pulled out of there to part of the venue with breathing space. If you see someone go down, you get them back up. No, THIS is exactly what’s supposed to be happening in a mosh pit /kWQdVBiShp It’s about a release of energy, an interaction with the body, the music, and the emotion each holds, and by and large it all comes down to consent and having an awareness for the people around you. ![]() Traditionally, that’ll get you either thrown out of the show by the crowd or security, or singled out by the band and then thrown out of the show. Moshing isn’t about getting into a mess of people and punching everyone in the head. Not only after what happened during Travis Scott’s set, but for us Australians and our re-entry into crowded shows. There are ways to mosh and slam dance safely, and it’s important we recognise and remember that. When people with experience in punk, hardcore and metal scenes identified the lack of mosh etiquette on display in the hoards of people at NRG Park in Houston, there were replies like “that’s what mosh pits are like” and “everyone’s there to throw hands”. The people in those pits simply do not care if you fall down. ![]() Rappers been co-opting the rockstar image and mosh culture for their live shows but without any of the mosh pit etiquette. Watching the Astroworld footage, it appears the sentiments of mosh etiquette hasn’t yet transferred across subcultures of music fans, despite the stars of these communities calling for circle pits and wall to wall mosh pits. People Trapped In Crowd Crush At Astroworld Claim Staff ‘Ignored’ Pleas To ‘Stop The Show’ In none of those crowds did I ever feel like safety was out of reach, or that any requests for help would be ignored. The whole set stopped, everyone created space, and the band didn’t start again until it was confirmed they were safe. I’ve been at a Slowdive show where someone had an epileptic fit under the lighting. I’ve slipped over on the sweaty floor of a circle pit at AFI, and had hands on me as soon as I hit the deck. Another gig where I was on the front fence, I felt the crush of the crowd crunching my ribs before I got pulled out by security as soon as I asked. At a Yellowcard show in Sydney in 2006, I was in the crowd when the front barrier collapsed five minutes into the first support act. Over the years, I’ve experienced plenty of instances where mosh pits have gotten a bit full-on. Muting/Blocking = Self Care November 6, 2021 And people regularly protect folks who might get pulled in But as someone who’s been going to punk and hardcore gigs and festivals for the last 16 years, there’s a shared, relatively unspoken, agreement when entering the pit.įirst and foremost: if someone falls, you pick them back up.Ī lot of the folks talking about “mosh pit” culture are young af & never been to metal & other hardcore concertsġ)Many concerts at a certain level have the support staff to back up the hardcoreĢ)Moshing is consensual. And if you’re in there with little regard for the people around you – they can be. From the outside, mosh pits and the circle pits that break out can look dangerous.
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