CountZero, that would make sense if gigs were static audiences. Virtually every gig I go to has an area at the front, some sort of mosh pit (although I hate that word…when I started going to gigs in the late 80s we called it wrecking). Why is it bad if I turn up late and go to the pit? Most of the bellends who stand front and centre soon realise that there is a place to stand, and a place to dance.
I went to a kasabian (I know, total shit) at the civic once. The lad I was with insisted on getting there before the doors opened. He then waited by the stage, while I went back and forwards with beer. The people that were there before anything happened were pretty much all replaced by people wanting to dance by the the time the band started.
What happens when you need to go to the bog, or bar? How’s your walk of shame then?