well if you really love the band, thats about as close to them as you're gonna get!

i hate being at the front of a crowded gig because its uncomfortable and painful. the only concert i was ever at the front of, was stabbing westward. it was a good thing i did because i got pulled up on stage for a song! that would never have happened had i not been in the front being squished into the barriers. go me.

The very front of the mosh (by fence) isn't as bad as the middle. At least theres something to hang onto & theres also fresh air (ie no ciggies & pot smell) I would know :-)
Keeping that place can be hard, I'm not sure how littlies would stand up against older male fans also desperate to get to the front. But I'm tall & tough, so haha to them *smirk*

I hate it when people have bags on their back at the front.
I dislike people whose idea of fun is constantly bumping into you even though there is plenty of room.
Sorry this isn't on the topic.
Pain is the price you pay for the thrill?

Shihad gig vid!!!!???! How old? If it is old, can I get a copy, man? That would be just super.

You know for once I actually agree with Jon Jr. I once went to all the gigs, was always up the front and always wondered why there were so many girls who insisted on being up there.

Examples of things that happen that pissed me off:
- people who tell you to get the fuck away from them when you are pushed in to them by the thousands of people around you.
- people who insist on having their hands on your shoulders weighing you down every time you jump to keep up with the crowd.
- sweaty males with their tops off in the moshpit EWW!
- punks with spikey hair in a moshpit OUCH!

Back at the big day out a couple of years a go, I waited for over an hour in the moshpit waiting for the foo fighters to start. I managed to get myself in the second row. Before the band was about to start, three girls some how made it up to the front and ended up right next to me. After the second song, all three girls start screaming saying they need help.. I go to help them, lifting them up over the crowd... everyone around me moves in to my space at the front, leaving me 10 rows behind. FUCK THAT!

I just stand up the front to get good photos of the bands..

the worst thing is the couples... the girl in the front row with the guy behind her, 'protecting' her. everytime you knock either one, he gets aggro.

the front is the one of the easiest places to be, second only to leaning on the bar. the hard place is in the middle of the pit. except for a few beautiful times when the middle of the pit is the front row.

i also hate the new tradition of passing crowd surfers forward.

Nothing against the "girls at the front", Im a girl and I love being at the front, but I dont wear a backpack/have my boyfriend behind me/cry when the mosh is rowdy/get agg at the people moving round me, so Id consider myself a not-so-bad person to be at the front (Im not really little but I cant see much when Im further than a few rows back)
What REALLY gets my goat (if the goat aint thrown yet) is the chicks at the front who STAND STILL THE WHOLE TIME SCOWLING AT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM JUST FOR MOVING. Is it just me, or is the front a mosh pit?!
Ive been at two different gigs, months apart, and found the same 3 girls hanging on to the barrier and not moving with the crowd/music OR to let other, more into-it people, closer to the stage. The same people!
Thats what annoys me most about the other people who stand near the stage.
I keep forgetting this topic isnt for venting. Sorry, but does anyone else feel the same?

yeah thats what i was TRYING to say, the grls who cling to the front and WATCH the band, its fine for blink and co. to stand at the back with folded arms looking knowledgeble. but when i got pushed into a grl during ejector, i got the MEANEST look, and i got told off by the security guard.
two of the reasons for there being no mosh pit for ejector, were
a) the grls at the front
b) security guards, who only started not telling us off and forcing us back, once grinspoon were half way thru their set >:(
are there any people here at NZmusic who are bouncers/guards at gigs??? im interested in ur perspective???
are guards just hired out??? do they do the sports events too???
that would explain ALOT!!!!

i get called little...but i don't think i am!
i like the front cuz i can actually see...if i'm 3rd row or behind i can't see the band playing over everyones heads.
but i don't get pissed off if someone bumps into me...its a mosh pit so its expected!
i like jumping/moving with the crowd...its fun but it can be a bit hard sometimes with everyones friggin arms on me.
i don't mind if i get pushed over a bit to let other people in...but i wanna stick with my friends.
i hate the people who bitch at u for trying to squeeze in next to them because they've apparently been waiting 7 hours in the front row. like these stupid girls at true colours...and then blindspott got changed to a diff stage so they didn't have front row anymore!

i used to be a front row girl - but i would call myself anything but little and i got into it and shit. But one time i was up front row at one of our school band's little gig's and i got a table thrown ontop of me and several others at the front. People had been using it to jump off and crowd surf but some fuck wit got too excited and decided to throw the table out onto the crowd.....it fucking hurt.....
But now i keep to the back really, sometimes a little to the middle if a feel like a bit of a thrash but otherwise, i just dance around out the back and everyone gives me looks.....its funny - i like being the weird dancing girl out the back......

i cant stand squealers......little 12 year olds who squeal for the frontman to "take his top off".....now that just makes me mad...though, i've learned not to tell people off - got beaten up at a gig for doing that....