God it was fun. Hehe, I was expecting you to say you hated it after all that ^_^ Gig injuries make for the best stories :-)
One advantage of being at the front is that you can at least breath... or potentially breath when not getting crushed by the crowd.. whereas if you're a couple of rows back you get crushed *and* have no air. After nearly passing out at a Placebo gig in that position a few years back (and probably being a little more unfit than I was) I'm a little more wary than I used to be. That goes double for heavy rock gigs *is determined everything will be fine at Pitchshifter in Nottingham, despite worrying a bit*
I think my greatest injuries came from being at the front of a Manic Street Preachers gig... at a *festival*. Yup, thousands of fans shoving up being you, attempting to elbow you out the way, kicking you when crowdsurfing and generally crushing you against the barriers. I got some lovely bruises on my hips from that one, comparable to anything Skully et al could hand out :-)
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Hehe, I was expecting you to say you hated it after all that ^_^ Gig injuries make for the best stories :-)
One advantage of being at the front is that you can at least breath... or potentially breath when not getting crushed by the crowd.. whereas if you're a couple of rows back you get crushed *and* have no air. After nearly passing out at a Placebo gig in that position a few years back (and probably being a little more unfit than I was) I'm a little more wary than I used to be. That goes double for heavy rock gigs *is determined everything will be fine at Pitchshifter in Nottingham, despite worrying a bit*
I think my greatest injuries came from being at the front of a Manic Street Preachers gig... at a *festival*. Yup, thousands of fans shoving up being you, attempting to elbow you out the way, kicking you when crowdsurfing and generally crushing you against the barriers. I got some lovely bruises on my hips from that one, comparable to anything Skully et al could hand out :-)