Is moshing an art form?

seachto7

I would say it isn't and it can be quite annoying to have some lad moshing around me when all I want to do is check out a band. I shouldn't have to stand at the back either.
I was at ISIS recently and up the front, and some guy moshing in front of me ruined it for me...
I do like a good pogo though....
I'm a boring auld fart

cedomination

Why would someone mosh to ISIS?

bigwormbundoran

seachto7 wrote: »

I would say it isn't and it can be quite annoying to have some lad moshing around me when all I want to do is check out a band. I shouldn't have to stand at the back either.
I was at ISIS recently and up the front, and some guy moshing in front of me ruined it for me...
I do like a good pogo though....
I'm a boring auld fart

+1 Cant beat an ould pogo


Moshing though is homoeroticism at its finest, loads of sweaty men grinding, pushing up against and falling on top of one another paying little attention to the band. Douches engaging in it ruin many a concert i must say

Diabhal_Glas

Moshing isnt an art form IMO, If you dont like someone moshing in front of you then either stand at the front to the side or push through to the very front so the moshing will be going on behind you.
It goes hand in hand with heavy aggressive music and I reckon if you dont like it sit upstairs if possible or stand well back. Its a jungle out there

JohnnyCrash

Art Form-Dont think so
Part and parcel of a Rock or Metal gig-Definately!
And invariably,its mostly up the front.:D

seachto7

I must say I do like observing mosh pits from afar, and can imagine it must be a rush for any band to have a crowd go off for you like that...

Useful.Idiot

great craic with a few tins in ya

lord lucan

I wouldn't call it an art-form but there is something magical about watching a proper pit in action. Unfortunately these days most kids can't mosh properly and don't know the 'rules'. I won't say any more as this thread will get moved to Ranting & Raving if i do!:pac:

GrizzlyMan

I find it very hard not to go mental if im full of Jagermeister & vodka and its a death/blackmetal gig and the adrenaline is running, but I do agree with a previous poster there are alot of younger ones who dont understand how the pit works they either get really hurt or just throw punches like idiots also said earlier there are always spots to see the band away from the chaos, like the front of the stage and the sides!!

Herb Powell

it's good fun. OP, it just happens up the front I'm afraid. if you don't want to be involved, stay back-the sound is usually better a little bit further back anyway(in my experience) . I agree with the dude who said that it's part of a gig really.

Nevyn

lord lucan wrote: »

I wouldn't call it an art-form but there is something magical about watching a proper pit in action. Unfortunately these days most kids can't mosh properly and don't know the 'rules'. I won't say any more as this thread will get moved to Ranting & Raving if i do!:pac:

I had tought I would never been in a 'proper' mosh again, I agree there are a lot of 'kids' who don't know how to behave, but the experience at RATM was awesome and very old skool and it wasn't just up da front.

DazMarz

Moshing an art form... no way José...

Depends on the gig too. Extreme bands, yeah... Mosh away.

Who the fúck tries to get a mosh pit going at a Def Leppard gig??? Piss off away from me, you drunken fool!!!:mad::mad:

I'm a cranky git, btw!!!:o

Malice

What an odd thread. Presumably lovers of ballet would class ballet as an art form and moshing is also a form of dancing so I guess there is a tenuous connection there. Personally I can't stand mosh pits and I try to avoid them whenever possible due to the fact that I wear glasses and am blind as a bat without them.

johnmacward

Look, just cause I've cracked my skull on a pillar for the fourth time and I'm covered in the sweat of 7 different men... doesn't mean I'm not listenin to the band!

The cheek of your assumptions.

Nevyn

Malice_ wrote: »

Personally I can't stand mosh pits and I try to avoid them whenever possible due to the fact that I wear glasses and am blind as a bat without them.

That doesn't stop me

Angron

I don't consider it an art form, I just consider it all good fun. I hate that hardcore dancing crap though, acting like a damn windmill or kicking out randomly. I remember once at a gig, just some local bands, this huge fella was doing that, ended up hitting a girl in the face. Running shoulder to the stomach stopped him.

Malice

Thaedydal wrote: »

That doesn't stop me

It usen't stop me either until I was at a gig in Sally Longs in Galway a few years ago and got my glasses broken when someone decided to wrap their arm around my head. I had to drive home only able to see out of one eye . It was a very slow nerve-wracking journey and also expensive to replace the stupid glasses so I figured discretion would be the better part of valour and I'd be more careful in future .

weeder

Denny M wrote: »

I don't consider it an art form, I just consider it all good fun. I hate that hardcore dancing crap though, acting like a damn windmill or kicking out randomly. I remember once at a gig, just some local bands, this huge fella was doing that, ended up hitting a girl in the face. Running shoulder to the stomach stopped him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfWumokkspQ

right, thats hilarious

Angron

Granted they are doing a piss-take there, that is the general idea behind hardcore dancing in pits sadly

metzengerstein

id say its a little bit of art form swingin elbows but trying not too hit the other people unless its an agressive one to which ive been in at a few slayer gigs in my time ,some gigs though you dont have a choice the last slayer show i saw the whole venue was goin nuts i was up front at the barrier but still limbs flying left right and centre ,and anyone who was at that sham of a ratm gig theres another example but most at that were just jumping around and falling on people ..i do like the hardcore moves if anyones familar with those some moshing and the accsional pickin up change and that lark seen some guy doin stuff like that at the pro pain gig

metzengerstein

the wall of death classic

metzengerstein

holy s**t this looks mental

TangyZizzle

Tools throwin kicks and digs.. flyin elbows and the like, fúck right off. I love the friendly pits, the ones where bodies are flyin and everyones bouncin off each other, but at the same time lookin out for one another and there for a good time, not to break someones nose or knock out teeth.

Is it an art-form? Id say so, the way a pit looks from the balcony, when theres not much space between the bodies and the odd crowd surfer, ya cant beat it.. its class

JohnnyCrash

Malice_ wrote: »

It usen't stop me either until I was at a gig in Sally Longs in Galway a few years ago and got my glasses broken when someone decided to wrap their arm around my head. I had to drive home only able to see out of one eye . It was a very slow nerve-wracking journey and also expensive to replace the stupid glasses so I figured discretion would be the better part of valour and I'd be more careful in future .

Wear contacts to gigs and mosh away:D

metzengerstein

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Tools throwin kicks and digs.. flyin elbows and the like, fúck right off. I love the friendly pits, the ones where bodies are flyin and everyones bouncin off each other, but at the same time lookin out for one another and there for a good time, not to break someones nose or knock out teeth.

Is it an art-form? Id say so, the way a pit looks from the balcony, when theres not much space between the bodies and the odd crowd surfer, ya cant beat it.. its class

yea those ones are good ,there is always the few who want to ruin the fun by thrown digs and that which is sh**ty ,it is great to watch from the balconys though especially that wall of death thing ,got caught in one once but dont think i want to have a go again

Malice

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Wear contacts to gigs and mosh away:D

I used to wear contacts but the bastard things made my eyes hurt.

Knifey Spoony

Moshing can be great fun, like at the Rage gig recently, but I have seem some where people are just too drunk and take offence when you bump into them in the pit. I also wish that people would not take their shirt off in the pit. I really do not want to be re-enacting that scene from Along Came Polly all night!:p

Star Bingo

my pit days r over i reckon. always the possibility to get carried away though, now i just like stand on the fringes acting as supervisor. neither in nor out

if someone's actin the prick thats what draws me, i love squarin up to em the hard stare the pointed finger 'try that again pal'.. w/ a smoke n a drink such a poser

Under A Funeral Moon

Try it out sometime, you might enjoy it. Personally, I love it - once it's the right kind of gig.
Why people were moshing at an Isis gig is beyond me. Strange.

seachto7

Under A Funeral Moon wrote: »

Try it out sometime, you might enjoy it. Personally, I love it - once it's the right kind of gig.
Why people were moshing at an Isis gig is beyond me. Strange.

that#s what I was thinking!