First thing's first, tonight I saw the Dropkick Murphys play live in Ludwigsburg. The show was complete with stage invasion and encore that ended the show with TNT by ACDC, ein ganz tolles Nacht.
This week I want to talk about cultural stereotypes. At the concert Whitney and I speculated about how wild the crowd would be for the band. Suffice to say we were quite surprised! We had mostly speculated that fairly hardcore punks would have abounded and made the crowd quite wild with moshing and the like. We were actually instead very surprised to find the majority of the crowd to just be enthusiastic but physically casual listeners. This is a huge difference for us from Australia. And just the sheer kind of jokey comradeship that existed there.
In Australia going to a concert is like a competition. Who can get in the door first, Who can get to the front of the crowd, who can get to the front of the merchandise line quickest, who can show off their fandom the most. It's really pretty disappointing that it's like that in Australia. But in Germany it seemed like everyone knew they were all there to have a good time and see the band and hear the music and they seemed correspondingly relaxed.
This is definitely indicative of a lot of the German society I've experienced, it correlates well to the public transport in that people my bump and jostle but no one fights or yells because we're all just trying to get to school/work/home/sonnenstudio whatever.
This is definitely something I really like about Germany, it's just so rational here.
Shipping up to Boston, theme for The Departed and break out hit for the Dropkick Murphys
This week I want to talk about cultural stereotypes. At the concert Whitney and I speculated about how wild the crowd would be for the band. Suffice to say we were quite surprised! We had mostly speculated that fairly hardcore punks would have abounded and made the crowd quite wild with moshing and the like. We were actually instead very surprised to find the majority of the crowd to just be enthusiastic but physically casual listeners. This is a huge difference for us from Australia. And just the sheer kind of jokey comradeship that existed there.
In Australia going to a concert is like a competition. Who can get in the door first, Who can get to the front of the crowd, who can get to the front of the merchandise line quickest, who can show off their fandom the most. It's really pretty disappointing that it's like that in Australia. But in Germany it seemed like everyone knew they were all there to have a good time and see the band and hear the music and they seemed correspondingly relaxed.
This is definitely indicative of a lot of the German society I've experienced, it correlates well to the public transport in that people my bump and jostle but no one fights or yells because we're all just trying to get to school/work/home/sonnenstudio whatever.
This is definitely something I really like about Germany, it's just so rational here.
And a nice folky one of their tunes to enjoy.
Peace and rationality to all reading (and a headbanging good time haha)
Wow, thats really interesting about the mosh pit!! I love having a good time in the mosh pit, but it can really get rough! (Oncee I got winded in the mosh pit.. that was not fun) But that is really cool that they are tame and actually go to enjoy the music and listen to what they love, instead of going pshyco!
ReplyDeleteYeah it was really interesting to see the way they conducted themselves at the concert. They still had a great time, and some were more physically enthusiastic than others but they seemed to repsect that everyone was there to enjoy it. It was also interesting to see the ACTA protest today, because I assumed that they would be a little more rowdy, at least vocally. But it was quite controlled.
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