How to Survive an Underground Rock n Roll or Metal Concert
Underground independent rock or underground heavy metal shows are not like mainstream rock shows. Security isn’t paid to protect you, but to protect the venue from you and to kick you out if you damage anything or act like you are on drugs. If you want to enjoy the music, and it’s some of the most necessary music in rock, you’ll want to follow some basic rules:
• Bring nothing but your wallet and keys. If you get frisked by security, or an individual else does something stupid, you don’t want to be holding anything. Leave the drugs at home or get a hotel room nearby with your companions, and taxi over.
• Don’t drink until you’re obliterated. If you want to have several beers, who’s going to complain? But know your limits. That fun stunt you thought wouldn’t make you look like a drunk idiot will make you look like a dangerous drunk idiot to security, or to the guy who decks you with a haymaker because you were being a drunk idiot.
• Mosh? Going into that p it is prefer signing a contract that states you are not going to blame a person else for causing you bodily harm. It might also be a load of fun. The rules are: try to bounce other people off you, not hit them. Forgive others when a misplaced elbow makes chin contact. And finally, if a person falls, pick them up before they get trampled.
• Security guys are underpaid and are used to every excuse in the book. The time to make peace with them is before an incident starts. If two guys start fighting, back up and make it clear you are not involved. Assuming that the guy next to you suddenly coughs cocaine all over the stage and begins barfing blood, do the same thing.
• I recommend showing up early to get a nice parking space, and leaving virtually nothing visible in the car at all. Homeless people occasionally take a shine to your old sweater if it’s a cold night out, or wonder if those fake Oakleys are real.
• Suppose something goes really wrong, and the cops attend. Even if you have a grudge or well-reasoned complaint against our law enforcement officers, now is not the time, when they’re outnumbered and surrounded by a potential riot. Be polite, sit down quietly away from any incident locations, and get out as swiftly as you can, because if could hem happens, they’re going to start taking individuals out.
• Club individual nel are in this job because it is a lifestyle, and do not get paid much. It won’t kill you to be polite, but do not be a chump. State your request, be friendly, and move on.
• The bathrooms can be a disaster before the show, but they are regularly a compost pond by halfway through. If something needs to happen in your excretory tract, make sure it happens before you arrive at the show.
• How to make a band happy: artists get paid the least for CDs and t-shirts you order Online from a third gathering store, a little more for CDs and t-shirts you order from the label, still a bit more from t-shirts and CDs you buy at the club, and a little bit more for t-shirts and CDs you order from their Web site. What makes them the most cash is when you find them following the show and buy the shirt or CD from them there, because they do not have to pay the club or label a cut.
Follow these standard instructions and you’ll be a productive and happy member of the fans, and no harm will like ly come to you. think of it as a new form of etiquette for places where you may not expect standards to apply, but because they’re inherent to human behavior, they do.