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October 12, 2003

“Hey! Hey! We’re the fuckin’ Thrills!”

Myself, Wrighty, Doug, and Darren saw The Thrills at the Shepherds Bush Empire last night and they bloomin’ well rocked. ‘Your Love Is Like Las Vegas’ was a particular highlight for me. The Thrills are simply superb live.

We also worked out that there are a couple of lessons people should learn about gigs:

1. “We need to make some space for my 2 friends who’ve just gone to the bar.” No we bloody don’t - you can’t reserve a block of space at the front, you silly blond high maintenace bint.

2. If you are utterly stoned off your tits AND you are also support act for a gig AND you are also shit, don’t bother because you’re not doing anyone any favours. We’ll have none of this writhing about on the floor - you’re not Morrissey, you big girl!

3. Moshing does not equal fighting. Beware of people in the crowd wearing England t-shirts, they’re unlikey to know the mosh rules and as such will be utter twats.

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Posted 9:35 pm by matthew —

10 Comments

1. I think we should start a site for the awareness of correct “mosh etiquette".

   Comment by Ian — October 12, 2003 @ 11:25 pm

2. when i first went to indie gigs in the good ‘ol days, peope didn’t mosh like that. in fact we didn’t call it moshing as that was a metal trait. what happened to the times when ‘pogo-ing’ would suffice. damn nu-metal/crappy kids revolution. destroy them all!! that’s what i say.

   Comment by Keith — October 13, 2003 @ 1:34 am

3. forgot to say, the thrills are excellent.

   Comment by Keith — October 13, 2003 @ 1:35 am

4. It wasn’t really a proper metal type mosh - more sort of pogoing with a bit of pushing. But still twats do take the fun away from it, trendy eejits.

   Comment by Matthew — October 13, 2003 @ 4:55 pm

5. Ah yes…the lost art of “proper” moshing.

   Thanks for the link below chaps. Much appreciated.

   Comment by Pete — October 13, 2003 @ 6:44 pm

6. i wouldn’t so much say they “rock” live; perhaps “aggresively sway” might do it. that said, it has been a while since i saw them and they might have improved. *when did i see them* you ask? that would be telling, and, erm, smug. suffice to say wrighty didn’t seem them. *coughs*

   Comment by rich — October 14, 2003 @ 9:35 pm

7. Young Mr Watts! I percieve that you are subtley hinting about atending one exclusive Abbey Road gig… :p

   Comment by Matthew — October 14, 2003 @ 11:27 pm

8. First heckle of the night by Darren:

   “GET OFF THE FLOOR YOU BIG GIRL!!” to the support.

   Quality.

   Oh god yeah, that blond girl with her two ape-men friends. Yes love, cos a lip stud makes you SO alternative…

   Comment by Doug — October 15, 2003 @ 1:13 pm

9. Correction - the first heckle of the night was by me with “GET OFF THE FLOOR - YOU’RE NOT FUCKING MORRISSEY!". That was closely followed by Darren’s heckle, which combined with mine made a lord-high-uber-me-god-heckle. Mwahahahahahahahahaha!

   There was also the point where you nearly punched me in the head because you thought I was one of “alternative” girl’s ape friends…

   Comment by Matthew — October 15, 2003 @ 3:07 pm

10. Actually, dearie, you were nearly punched in the head cos Doug realised it was you.

    Comment by “Neferiti” — October 23, 2003 @ 6:43 pm

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