For me, an audience is at it’s prime when gathered in a mosh pit, screaming the lyrics of my favourite song along with thousands of other people all in one place. Last year I attended ‘Groovin’ in Maitland, where I stood at the front of a mosh pit for 6 hours, pressed against a fence, just so I could hear Aminé (an artist who has only one song that I really, actually kind of know) sing “Bad thang, fine as hell, thick as-“. 6 hours just to hear those sweet words. He eventually did and then I had to stand through his other 12 songs that I had never heard in my life but I still managed to mumble along, pretending that I knew every single lyric.

Aside from being incoherent, the experience was undeniably one of the best I’ve had in my life so far. The audience in this case brought inclusiveness, as we listened to some of our favourite bands, we were all one.

Audiences however in 2019 are mostly digitalised through voicing our opinions on twitter to binging on Netflix. This has has removed some of the collectiveness of joining together like  in a cinema or watching l lectures online (can’t say I don’t do this).. and it kind of sucks.

From my experience at Groovin, real life, in person audiences are the greatest types of audiences to be part of, and that’s what I really took away from it. I got to meet some extremely wacky but amazing people and was immersed in a new culture of music I’ve never witnessed before.

From my experience at Groovin, real life, in person audiences are the greatest types of audiences to be part of, and that’s what I really took away from it. I got to meet some extremely wacky but amazing people and was immersed in a new culture of music I’ve never witnessed before.

 The only negatives… desperately needing to use the toilet at the front of a contained mosh pit when your favourite DJ is only minutes from entering the stage and having every part of your body touching every single part of someone else’s body (who happened to be a stranger) pushed up against your back. This doesn’t help when you are merely 5 foot tall and I am not exaggerating when I say it was EVERY part of their body pushed up against me. Side note, the feeling of getting pushed against a fence isn’t always fun and lead to my friends and I, holding on the fence occasionally and screaming very loud to let out our frustration. I love being part of a audience… I swear that wasn’t sarcasm.

Until next time,

Jules x