Wow, I'm glad we got to hear from an expert on the moshing/pogo arts.
My beef is the people that mosh/pogo/whatever right in front. None of them
are looking at the band anyhow. Do your running into people in the back if
you have to do it at all.
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Ben Hubbird
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Bjorn Warloe wrote:
> Ok I have had about enough of the moshing comments. I have been going
> to mouse shows in the northwest for quite some time now. I have seen
> them play 10 or 11 times and never once was anyone moshing. I say
> this as a person who has been in the pit at ministry, kmfdm, nine inch
> nails, and most violent of all the sweaty nipples reunion show last
> month. People pogo at the mouse, some people might even bump into
> each other at the mouse but no one, I repeat no one is moshing at the
> mouse. There is usually a small group of people who move around in the
> front, these people are not particularly violent, so why the problem.
> The problem here is girls who come to the show in flip flop sandals and
> stand right down in the front then get pissed because someone fucking
> moved and stood on my toe. It is one thing that everyone stands still
> and listens intently at a cat power show but this is modest mouse.
> People are going to feel the beat of a song like breakthrough or tundra/
> desert and they are going to move around, so dress appropriately.
> If you simply can not wear a real pair of shoes to the show there is
> another option. Stand out side the 10 foot by 10 foot area where people
> are pogoing. Most of the crowd is just standing there, so if you don't
> want to be near a pogo artist then don't stand right in front of the
> stage. I will be at the Eugene show and both Seattle Shows and I will
> be moving my body about, if you tell me to stop and start threatening
> me like the bastard at the last frank black show I went to then I will
> go out of my way to begin moshing in your direction. If you just let
> me enjoy the show you probably won't even know I am there.
>
> declan galt
>
