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I booked tickets to see Knocked Loose in Paris on a whim because an opportunity to see a band I had grown to love last year on my 25th birthday felt too good to pass up. This was my first metal gig, I hope I go to many more, it was extremely enriching and cathartic. I chatted to a British couple, turned it was one of their birthdays too. They were more experienced metal fans and talked me through what would happen and who the support acts were.
So yeah. Go get it out of your system. My neck does hurt now.
OH OH sub recommendation: if you're not already using ear plugs at gigs, start.
Mar 22, 2025
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i just went to my first punk show in my city, since a friend of mine’s band was playing and he invited me. it was at 8pm at a coffee shop, and i felt very out of place at first among these people who are so much more incredibly cool than me. then, the music started, and i realized that i was headbanging just like everyone else. girls asked me to hold their things when they went to mosh, and i helped people up off the floor when they fell in the pit. it was a very unifying experience and i met lots of real weirdos (which i love). highly recommend
Nov 10, 2024
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I just went to a Fontaines DC show and it was really great, but I had such a weird experience with the crowd. I think a lot of new fans don’t realize that this band came out of an Irish punk movement, and their concerts will thus come with punk fans. People who wanted more a more poppy ambience after hearing a few singles like starburster and favorite seemed visibly disappointed that people were jumping around in the front. If you listen to any earlier music, especially the first two albums, you can assume that the concert will lean more punk. The dirty looks, the refusal to move at all, and the lead singer having to hype people up to get the rest of the crowd to move all in all was just really weird and not in the spirit of the night. It’s okay if you don’t wanna mosh or even move, but hype up your fellow friends who do and leave the judgment at home
Oct 16, 2024
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In December 2017 I went to a local festival in my city that was one day only and I saw cage the elephant live and that was one of the best concert experiences I’ve had to this day. I also saw Green Day earlier that year (primarily to watch catfish and the bottlemen open for them) and I was really pleasantly surprised with how great of a show they put on.
When I moved to NYC the first concert I saw here was weyes blood, about six months after titanic rising came out, and it was one of the few times I’ve cried at a show. One of my first “post-Covid” shows was japanese breakfast at brooklyn steel, and that show just felt so whole and I think about it often.
I got to see IDLES’ sold out Bowery ballroom show earlier this year and that one was just so fun and memorable for me. Love a good mosh pit, love a room full of people who are all there because they love the artist/band just as much as you do. Julia Jacklin’s solo acoustic show earlier this year was hauntingly beautiful and it made me a bigger fan of her for sure.
Sorry this is 6 concerts but this is technically my top 10% so I think that’s good enough.
Aug 29, 2024
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One of my favourite flowers. Tiny little blue things, whimsical name.
Picture also featuring my favourite boots.
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Obviously putting on my glasses is something I have to do if I want to see things, but I like to see putting them on and taking them off as a transition from one state to another. It's the decision that my day is ending and that my day is beginning. I think this is why I need to get back into wearing an eye mask at night, that made it feel like waking up was a decision I was making, not a whim of my body.
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