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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Keep Going To Shows
BY LIV SLABY
Let's be honest: There's no money in music anymore. If you actually manage to make good money selling physical or digital copies of your songs, you're either a marketing genius or of One Direction caliber. This leaves all the young artists trying to make it in an incredibly harsh industry to do one thing: Hit the road. And that's definitely not a bad thing for us as fans of music. Being at a show is an incomparable experience, fleeting but overwhelming while it lasts.
It's the difference between mainstream and alternative shows that make the latter so amazing. You can't buy your way closer to the performers. When you lose your friends
in the crowd, you make new ones with the people right beside you. The stage is often yours to jump on and dive off of. The performers might actually look right at you, and it's your job to keep them in the air when they crowd surf. No one's going to judge you if you start dancing like crazy or doing cartwheels in a mosh pit. You might get kicked in the head or knocked to the ground, but people will help you up and later you'll say it was awesome. It's intimate, supportive, and it's where you feel loved and accepted by not only the performers but everyone in the audience because every person in the room can relate to the band's music.
Let's be honest: There's no money in music anymore. If you actually manage to make good money selling physical or digital copies of your songs, you're either a marketing genius or of One Direction caliber. This leaves all the young artists trying to make it in an incredibly harsh industry to do one thing: Hit the road. And that's definitely not a bad thing for us as fans of music. Being at a show is an incomparable experience, fleeting but overwhelming while it lasts.
It's the difference between mainstream and alternative shows that make the latter so amazing. You can't buy your way closer to the performers. When you lose your friends
in the crowd, you make new ones with the people right beside you. The stage is often yours to jump on and dive off of. The performers might actually look right at you, and it's your job to keep them in the air when they crowd surf. No one's going to judge you if you start dancing like crazy or doing cartwheels in a mosh pit. You might get kicked in the head or knocked to the ground, but people will help you up and later you'll say it was awesome. It's intimate, supportive, and it's where you feel loved and accepted by not only the performers but everyone in the audience because every person in the room can relate to the band's music.
Concert Etiquette
BY LIV SLABY
After much deliberation and careful planning, we have decided that these are the commandments of showgoing.
1. Do not cut in line. If there is a line to get into the venue, don't be the guy who thinks it's okay to push right past the people who have been there for hours. This goes for the merch line too.
2. Do not film the entire show. Pay attention to your surroundings! Stop waving your phone around, trying to catch every movement of your favorite band member. Not only are you basically ruining the experience for yourself because you're preoccupied with saving the memories for later, but you're also blocking people's view. Not to say that some pictures or videos aren't okay!
After much deliberation and careful planning, we have decided that these are the commandments of showgoing.
1. Do not cut in line. If there is a line to get into the venue, don't be the guy who thinks it's okay to push right past the people who have been there for hours. This goes for the merch line too.
2. Do not film the entire show. Pay attention to your surroundings! Stop waving your phone around, trying to catch every movement of your favorite band member. Not only are you basically ruining the experience for yourself because you're preoccupied with saving the memories for later, but you're also blocking people's view. Not to say that some pictures or videos aren't okay!
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