5/10/2023 0 Comments Punk mosh pit![]() One of my fondest memories in a pit was at a Flogging Molly show, an Irish punk rock band. They are a true exercise in community values and trust. Punk fans know what it means to truly mosh – it means shoving and not hitting it means when someone falls down, everything stops to pick them back up it means if someone is tying their shoe at the border, you form a barrier around them to keep them safe. And if you’ve never been in a pit at a non-EDM event, I couldn’t blame you for being unaware. However, when moshing first entered the music scene in Southern California in the early 1980s, it couldn’t have been more different. I’ve been personally knocked out from a mosh pit, and I know friends whose noses have been broken, and whose clothes have been ripped, so I can completely empathize with the idea that moshing is bad, or that it should be removed from events entirely. Moshing, as most EDM fans know it, is pretty much exactly as I’ve described above – a lawless pit of jacked up bros swinging their elbows and ramming into each other with the intention of inflicting the most pain or damage as possible. Wait a second… that’s not moshing, that’s a brawl. Moshing leads to broken bones, fights at shows, and a lot of discomfort for those surrounding the pit. You might recognize this sentence from a recent editorial by EDM.com on moshing, and why it should be banned from EDM. “What once began as a cluster of people vigorously bouncing around and head-banging, has quickly found its way of evolving into a full-scale warzone atmosphere at times, and more and more people seem to be leaving these mosh pits with bruises, sore limbs, and even broken bones as a result.”
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