Signs your getting old?
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Re: Cherub's mosh-pit post.
I saw Rival Schools in Manchester last Friday and there was a time I’d leave a gig with bleeding ears, broken limbs and missing items of clothing. Drenched head to toe in sweat and smeared with the grime of a hundred years of spilled drinks, dusty goths, grubby punks and a million cigarettes. And It was fucking glorious.
The soothing cool night air would calm our exuberance as we left the venue with new friends and old and those over-confident fuckers we’d just hoisted clear from certain mosh-pit death. And it was damn glorious.
We’d exchange phone numbers - old school style, you know, engraved with biro across our hands and we’d pray the ink lasted until we got home. We’d share a moist, flat joint someone had fished out of their sock and we’d devour huge bags of big, fat chips and garlic mayo like so many seagulls. We arrived as individuals but left as part of a fleeting tribe. We were always glorious.
As we entered the venue, you could feel the promise of that glory amongst the greying, shiny pates and claustrophobic volume of middle aged spread. An ocean of Patagonia, Arc’teryx and Fjällräven had replaced the 90s standards of Vans, Dickies and Carhartt (what goes around comes around) and on queue, an aural manifestation of my thoughts wafted into my lugs “Did you just spill your fucking Timothy Taylor’s on my ’teryx you cunt, cost me nearly £700”. Scraping together the change for a pack of ten B&H and the gauntlet run that was the night-bus was not on this crowd’s agenda. Neither was participating in the gig. It was sterile and safe and the glory had gone.- So the crowd was lame, but how were Rival Schools? I dig themstoplying
- They were great . Walter was his happy bouncy self. Lots of energy, played everything you'd want them to, but a show like that is improved so much if that...Morning_star
- ...is mirrored by the crowd.Morning_star
- I saw him with Quicksand about 12 years ago in a really small, uncrowded venue. To your point, was great to see them but a rawkus crowd would've enhanced itstoplying