The Reserved-Seating Creep at Rock Shows

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:10:00 +0000

For most of rock and metal’s history, the floor of a venue was the one part of the ticket price that came with no promises attached. General admission meant a flat, open space, first come, first held, and whatever position you ended up in was earned by turning up early and being willing to stand in it for hours. That floor is where the mosh pit lives, where the crowd surges toward the barrier during the opener, where a few hundred strangers negotiate personal space by pure physical consensus. Increasingly, a chunk of that floor is not general admission any more. It is numbered, seated, and sold at a separate, higher price than the ticket standing eighteen inches away from it.

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The Reserved-Seating Creep at Rock Shows