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Wheeeee Macklemore played in Christchurch last night for Canterbury University's Orientation (in an unusually graceful move, they let polytechnic and Lincoln University students get tickets as well). In testament to the fact he's obscenely popular, 500 sold-out tickets to the campus venue became 4000 tickets to the arena around the corner from where I live.

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This seems like the appropriate thread to gripe about mosh pit etiquette, which the whiny little females in front of me clearly had no experience with (nor did they have experience with mosh pits in general.) Their solution to the several-thousand people crushing up against them to get to the front was to push back, or bitch about me and my clearly-nasty methods seeing as I'd shown up behind them "out of nowhere". Clearly, nobody else in the crowd shared out collective intent to be at the front, and my method's just shuffling forward half a step at a time as the crowd moves.

Fifteen minutes of elbows to the solar plexus and steady constriction of the chest left me liable to throw up my garlic bread on the whiny chick in front of me, so I gracefully bailed out the front and shuffled my way up once the set actually started.

Salient lessons to impart: Freshmen and (socio-politically statistically average) females are terrible things to have in a mosh pit, a problem exacerbated by performances involving a popular artist because the ratio of responsible moshers to inexperienced concertgoers is less favourable therein.

Dudes don't whine and whine and whine about being squashed or hot or in the same damn position as everyone else in the crowd. Guys will also look after people and not resort to pettiness like stepping on feet or drunkenly "apologising" while they attempt to shoehorn a whole conga line of laggards forward-wards. Dudes are also likelier to have gigs'd before, and know how to exercise basic courtesy to someone even while you're mixing sweat.

Awesome music, 6/10 crowd.