Live Music Blog

Underground independent rock or underground heavy metal shows are not prefer mainstream rock shows. Security is not paid to protect you, but to protect the club from you and to kick you out if you damage anything or act prefer you’re on drugs. If you want to enjoy the music, and it is some of the the majority necessary music in rock, you’ll want to follow some standard rules:
* Bring nothing but your wallet and keys. If you get frisked by security, or someone 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 friends, and taxi over.
* Don’t drink until you’re obliterated. If you want to have a few beers, who’s going to complain? But know your limits. That fun stunt you thought would not make you look prefer a drunk idiot will make you look prefer 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 demonstrates you’re not going to blame someone else for causing you bodily harm. It can additionally 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 someone falls, choose 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 obvious you’re not involved. If the guy next to you suddenly coughs cocaine all over the stage and starts barfing blood, do the same thing.
* I recommend showing up early to get a nice parking space, and leaving nothing visible in the car at all. Homeless people every now and then take a shine to your old sweater if it is 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 are outnumbered and surrounded by a potential riot. Be polite, sit down quietly away from any incident locations, and get out as promptly as you can, because if can hem happens, they are going to start taking people out.
* Club person nel are in this job because it is a lifestyle, and don’t get paid much. It won’t kill you to be polite, but don’t be a chump. State your request, be friendly, and move on.
* The bathrooms may be a disaster before the show, but they are usually 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: performers get paid the least for CDs and t-shirts you order Web from a third event 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 Website. What makes them the the majority cash is when you find them following the show and buy the shirt or CD  from them there, because they don’t have to pay the club or label a cut.
Follow these standard instructions and you’ll be a productive and happy member of the audiences, and no harm will prefer ly come to you. contemplate it as a new form of etiquette for places where you can not expect standards to apply, but because they are inherent to human behavior, they do.