Mosh Pits

Mosh pits

A few months ago i had a terrible experience with mosh pits when i went to see the arctic monkeys preform live. The entire show was mosh pit and this was my first time experiencing this. You see I'm Claustrophobic which really doesn't help and because it was must first time being in a mosh pit i was quite nervous.

My friend had purchased the ticket without my permission so i felt obliged to go, and considering i only knew a few of the bands songs i wasn't terribly keen anyway. When we arrived there i got really excited, but i didn't want to push myself i wanted to find out what my limitations were. I met up with two of my other friends and we stood there as the opening acts came on. I looked around me and though "Hey, this isn't so bad, i can do this" and it wasn't bad at all, until the Arctic Monkeys came on. 

The bands target audience is probably 25+ men (Mainly british) this meant that a large proportion were of that genre. So once that band started everyone began jumping up and down and 'raving' ( haha i can't believe i just said that) to the music. Because i am short i was getting crushed and it certainly didn't help that everyone around me was throwing beer everywhere and smoking weed, so this made my claustrophobia worse.

I began to have a panic attack and ran into the bath and... continued my panic attack, called my dad, he picked me up and we left. I've got to say it was probably one of the worst experiences of my life but i felt proud that i had the courage to do something about it. 

Since then i hadn't really gone into mosh pits and every time someone suggested we go to a concert that had a mosh pit i would just decline the offer. Until recently when a friend of mine had a spare ticket to Ed Sheeran and i instantly accepted, not realising it was mosh pit. When we arrived i was feeling really nervous, it was a huge crowd but luckly the target audience wasn't 25+ mainly british men, My friend knew that i was feeling quite nervous but she was supportive and i ended up having a really good time. I didn't get cushed, have beer thrown on me or have old men smoking weed around me. The music was amazing and the only bad thing was that i came out with an incredibly sore back, but it was o worth it!

Sorry its been so long since i have written my internet has been down but all good now, got heaps of blog ideas on the way and can't wait to share mys tories, experiences and feelings with you! xxx please comment below on your thoughts!