..at the Powerhouse (haus?) in Birmingham 87 or 88. It was kerazzy!

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So violent and so insane I actually kneed myself in the nose and bled everywhere.

Storming gig.

at the roundhouse a while ago. I couldnt see properly out my left eye for 2 weeks, my friends phone got smashed to pieces on the floor and there were about 3 seperate fights going on around me at one given moment.
have thier fans always been such cunts?

in Costa Mesa, Ca when I was a youngster. DK, Black Flag, Circle Jerks...y'know, crowds who liked to slam dance which sometimes turned into epic brawls.

How I love Jane Doe, Petioning, No Heroes etc but...

I wear glasses
I am very tall and quite thin
I am a bel and seb loving, book reading wuss essentially.

I would die, wouldn't I?

Academy 2 in Brum, January '03.

I know a lot of people on here have no love for Casey Chaos but that was a kicking, violent, bloody mess of a gig. Terrific.

surely?

Running battles between New Model Army and Mission fans!

Aahhh, those were the days....

this video would certainly suggest so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urlF9jrJ5O0

but that's a pretty unfair representation of their shows. That's just idiot hxc tough guys that you get in some shows, mainly American.

Probably Slayer.

at a free festival in Swansea in 1992 (or it might have been 1993, but I think 1992).

Fights between Swansea City and Cardiff City fans, and Nicky Wire quitting the stage after getting a bottle to the head. They came back and kind of screamed the rest of the set at the crowd.

no matter if you wanted to "mosh" or not, there was no such thing as personal space at that gig!

trail of dead played afterwards and the crowd calmed down a lot (maybe because the 14-year-old hardcore kids had to go home before curfew?). amanda palmer from the dresden dolls came out to the play with trail of dead and she went absolutely apeshit. there was glass flying everywhere. slightly unnerving as i was in the front row!

... the crowd was getting crushed so badly they had to stop playing and tell people to get the fuck back. lots of injuries. my mate got hit in the head with a glass bottle, and passed out in the middle of the crowd. had to drag her out with the help of a few peops, she was out cold.

they were not MASSIVE yet so they got put in the small tent, whilst oasis was on the main stage. BAsically EVERYONE went to the tent because lets face it most people hate oasis. I can remember literally MASSES of people sporting 'fuck oasis' tshirts. har har. Anyways, Was so fucking rammed in the tent i thought i was getting crushed so hard i thought my ribs were about to snap. Some guy picked me out the crowd and helped my crowd surf to the front to get the fuck ouuut. Which was cool cos i got to stand by the stage and run around like a lunatic between the barriers. woooo.

I only lost a shoe but i actually thought i was going to die

48 mosh pit dives before I gave up. No shit. It looked hardcore. Great gig, tho.. (at The Astoria a few years back).

was the bottle fight before amen in the radio 1 tent at reading festival one year, must have been 2001? cant remember. it was mental! the general pit action after that was also insane! what a show that was

around Scotland,especially the Crass show at the Lesser City Hall in Perth.
It even ended up on a CD decades later!

but someone gobbed into the air at a Therapy? gig circa 1994 and I was lucky enough for it to land in my face. The dribbly smell of it made me wretch and I just wanted to go home after that but I was stuck in the thick of it. I would have gladly swapped the gob for a kick/punch/elbow.

...and the final night at The Roundhouse for 'Daydream Nation' Don't Look Back. Brilliant!

People were moshing during the slow songs! I dont mind a nice mosh when its right time for it but that was obsense, got kicked in the head on several occasions, good fun though!

at the Astoria in 97 on my 16th birthday. I remember a lot of punks hitting me in the face and me being festooned in spittle!

Two years ago at reading, Ive never seen so many people who are both over 6ft and 15 stone.

W.A.S.P -DONINGTON 92
RATM - BRIXTON 93
OASIS - SOTON ROSEBOWL '05 (POMPEY /SAINTS FANS KICKING SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER FOR HOURS ON END...MORE ENTERTAINING THAN THE MANC CACK COMING FROM THE STAGE)

at the thurston moore nightmare before christmas weekend.
lots of middle aged men re-living their youth. someone through a chair.

my seat before sitting down at an Anthony & The Johnsons show. Nearly.

dam that hurt.

were always quite, erm, wild.

there were two guys punching their way through the crowd at one point, not cool.

100 club... i was put though a bass bin

was absolutely nuts, not at all helped by the fact that I was 14 and was about 7 stone. Whirlwind Heat supported and nearly blew TI off the stage, during them me and my mates picked up my younger brother, who was wearing a wayyyy-too-small batman tee, and threw him into the crowd. Fucking awesome, he loved it as well.