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my friends and I have some very important rules about how to remain cool at a concert:
1) do not listen to the band in question on the drive to the show. you will get your fill.
2) never wear the band's shirt to the show. no matter how much you love the band, you are too cool for them. but always wear a band shirt.
3) always stand in the front. if there is a mosh pit, stand near it or dive in. violence = fun.
Actually that last rule was tested for me last night. I went to see this emo/punk band called Bayside (they aren't ver good, but I had nothing to do). The pit was mostly full of moshers but also contained a contingent of hardcore dancers. If you are unfamiliar with contemporary punk rock, moshers are people who run around in circles and crash into eachother at high speed, whereas hardcore kids basically do high speed capoeira. These groups do not go together well. The hardcore dancers made the pit a deathly dangerous place My friend who was in the pit said he got roundhouse kicked in the back. I got thrown into a the corner of a piller. Eventually tensions between the harcore kids and the moshers came to a head, egged on by overeager security. a fight broke out, blood was spilt, cops were called. but I suppose that's how a punk show should work.
