Moshpits are amazing. The community is great. Every one I’ve been in, the moshpit has stopped if someone falls. People all around them help the fallen get back up. Shoes and hats and phones that fall get returned. People who don’t feel like moshing get protected by those who can see they don’t want to mosh. It’s really magic.
But a moshpit might not be the way you want your audience to be acting.
When I was at a Bayside concert, people were moshing. If you don’t know Bayside, they are not a moshpit kind of band. Lead singer Anthony Raneri could have carried on performing and letting people mosh, but instead he stopped in the middle of the song and told people to stop. He did so with humility by pointing out how people were scaring him given that he is only 5 foot something.
People laughed and the mosh pit audience turned back to the audience that has been known to be the Bayside audience.
Bayside is really not just a band, it’s a brand. And as any brand does, they pick their audience and then that audience is the brand’s responsibility.
That day, perhaps there were a few people in the moshpit that turned into haters of Bayside. Certainly not enough to counter how much more support and loyalty every other fan felt for the band when it made it clear how their audience was to behave.
Stay Positive & To Mosh Or Not To Mosh (You Decide)
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