One of the greatest feelings.
 

I believe one of the best feelings in the entire world is being at a gig or a club.

The kind of clubs and sets I go to, there is never any fighting or people getting at each other, there is only absolute love for everyone around you, for the DJ and for the music. We often form circles or 'holes' in the crowd and have one person, random or a friend, do a solo dance in the middle of the ring for a minute or two and no matter how insane or crap their dancing is, they always get clapped, hugged and high-fived afterwards, just simply for being absolutely awesome and for just being who they are.

I have done it many a time and I have to say, my dance style is uhh... "unique" :P but I always get the love, just like everyone else does.

So I just wanted to hear your perspective... is being at a music gig or festival one of, if not the best feelings in the world for you? And have you ever been to a place where the feeling is as I spoke of?

One of the greatest feelings.
 

I have not heard of that paricular set, but I have heard that gatecrasher is generally pretty awesome. I'd love to go to an event like that sometime.

Hehe yeah dancing in general is pretty fun, whether it's alone or with friends. I'm a bit of a bedroom raver myself. ;)

One of the greatest feelings.
 

Please do, i'd love to hear it.

There is an event called Glade in this country that I have had my eye on for a couple of years now, it's a camping music festival combining the best of D&B and Electronica with interactive art installations. Sounds like an excellent place to go to. Problem is the price, it's pretty steep.

You have to at least attend one rave in your life... the community, the music, the lights, its so incredible. It gives me the feeling of being free. Raves, concerts, clubs, wherever. As many of you know I'm a raver so the additction to the music, lights, and community is a high flying freedom... and I don't need drugs or liquor to have fun... I just go packing my rave gloves, and glowsticks, and the attitude of staying up all night and dancing and having fun. Being a DJ is also that as well, except I'm behind the music. My friend and I plan smaller type rave/trance parties and we dance all night long. I'm trying to up our parties, hopefully by renting a place so we can have a bigger dance area and invite more people.

The music injected into my veins, the ability to be up, dancing, and full of energy, the love from the other ravers... they're just nights to let all your worries behind you and feeling the love. As us ravers say; PLUR on! Peace Love Unity Respect. Thats what I say, thats what I preach. Fkeu'itan, we need to rave together someday.

And Fkeu'itan and madman, you missed it last night. I was on a chat using my cam with a couple people here and I brought in my DJ lights and fog machine and randomly I'd play a song, get up with my red and blue Inova lights, and dance. Bedroom raver, I love it. I remember one trance gig I DJ'd at I played the song Alex MORPH Walk The Edge (Alex MORPH remix) and I went out and danced, and the next thing I knew I was crying... right there dancing. The song affected me so much I cried. I even cried during a song I played last night on the web cam :D Thanks for bringing this up and letting me express myself. We need to rave together

One of the greatest feelings.
 

Holy crap madman alright we have to then :D I'm so upset at myself though I missed a concert of Infected Mushroom and ATB in Febuary... I saw the concert date the day after it happened :(

ATB is so incredible, I like Infected Mushroom, they are different and put on amazing shows... and me too I'm dead serious :D

Mine is the exact opposite of yours I think. I get the best feeling from going in pits where people are getting pulverized at death metal shows, total adrenaline rush.

It's not completely my area of expertise, but i'd sure as hell go if you two were. :D

Hmm... That is one area I never really understood. I don't really see the appeal of going to what is esentially an organised fight myself... ;)

Whats not exactly?

Well the kind of music you guys seem to listen to. Not saying I don't like it or anything, it's just not my first genre choice.

Trance/House/Electronic/Rave/Techno/Dubstep/Drum & Bass, and everything in between (Ex. Dark Trance, Dream Trance, things like that)

I'm big on the D&B scene myself, particularly liquid D&B and autonomic.

I do like most things electronica though.

The weird thing is, I'm into completely different music, but I kind of understand in a way. The only places I go play metal, but there's a feeling of respect and understanding between many people, even if it's not visible like you described. When we have a circle pit or a wall of death, when someone gets knocked down (happens fairly often) we help them. Even though people do get hurt, if they don't just get back up again then someone will help them up and let them get out of the pit.
It's an amazing feeling, but as Devourment said, it's probably more adrenaline based. Personally, I just can't really understand electronic music, it all sounds too similar for me and I prefer something with vocals and actual instruments rather than just sound effects. I have heard a few electronic songs I don't mind so much, but they have been a lot more relaxed and musical than a lot of electronic music, some of them had actual vocals.

Most of you know that I enjoy different types of music depending on my mood. I have never been much for clubbing, etc. Its probably due to the fact that I don't have any friends who are into it around here and my husband is not. That being said, I love dancing at weddings, etc. I have older tastes so we end up dancing to that. Every wedding I have been to that has had dancing the people laugh and clap their hands when they see others dancing in the most silliest of ways.

It would be interesting to go to a rave sometime. I know that my husband would never go for it though. He likes folk and bluegrass music and prefers acoustic music instead of electric. Me...I'll listen to anything mostly :).

I just got your PM, thanks for going to the trouble of uploading it for me, I appreciate it a lot.

@ HNM
I have never been to a place with a pit or anything so I guess i didn't really know what it was like. I just kind of naturally assumed that everyone was out to give each other a broken nose and that no one really cared if people got trampled on. Not quite sure what gave me that idea, but thanks for clarifying it a bit anyway. ;)

yea I've been in a mosh before, went with a friend to a heavy metal concert and basically, yea if you're in there you'd better expect to get hurt... not my cup of tea. I'd rather be waving a glowtick around with my light up shirt or Avatar shirt, giving people light shows, or behind the tables playing the music, dancing till I nearly fall down from exhaustion, feeling the beat of the music pulse in my veins and flow through my soul and being surrounded by strobes, lasers, par can lights, and other lighting effects is the way I love to go. Not saying moshes are bad or anything, I don't judge and I can't hate... its relative truth, whats true to you may not be true to me, and thats completely okay :) thats what makes us unique is what we each like and love.

One of the greatest feelings.
 

QFT.

You said exactly how I feel about that too...

The closest I ever got to a mosh was at that Pendulum gig. Some people started up this pit-type-thing (although it's really not the music for it). I ended up in there, I elbowed someone in the face by accident and gave them a nosebleed and instantly felt bad about it. I just don't enjoy hurting other people, whether they expect it or not.

But again, like Stanley said, i'm not judging or putting you down or anything... Just saying how I feel.

I just read this, and wow this sounds incredible.. you are lucky you have such a community! that sounds amazing! :P if i were to do my own dance moves solo in the town i live in, i would get booed at! lol

Awww... :(

Well then, you should totally go to a rave then! You should join me, Stan and madman at gatecrasher. XD

Not with your curves, flaunt your stuff kitty kat :D
by the way, with the clubs around here, theres no chance you can dance without getting getting a sore cheek bone XD

aw! that is sweet, i would get booed at tho.. this place i live in sucks lol!

really?? LOL owwieeee!! lol oh well.. no pain.. no gain??? :P

eee!! that sounds like fun! but.. i live so far away :( LOL!!

Hehe so do I. About 6500 miles in fact. ;)

Psh who cares we'll have to fly you down when theres a big weekend rave... I told Ally she has to come down and rave and party with me haha madman and fkeu'itan have to join as well obviously :D or we could have a big one night rave and the next night I DJ for another smaller type rave? we could rent out a place lol but yes I don't either enjoy hitting people even if it is what it's supposed to be...
Ally do what I do... bedroom rave! You've seen how much fun I have even if the smoke detector went off because of my fog machine XD :P

Also madman I'll have to watch those vids later I'm at work lol but Paul Okenfold is super bomb!

I just had a crazy idea... how about we have a video bedroom rave? lol

That
idea
is
awesome! When I'm usually video chatting with people I have my lights going off in the background and my fog machine going off... suddenly I'm like "Rave time!" Grab my red and blue Inova lights, put on some upbeat song, blast it from my DJ speakers and let the lights fly :D When and where?

Bah who cares what others think :D well it is your wife though... lol

Hehe you don't want an earful madman... ;)

I don't know where you want to do it... tinychat would be a good idea because just maybe we might get some other random people to dance too. :D

It can't be this week or next week though because I have my final art project to worry about. I would love to do it sometime soon though, it would be awesome!
(Anyone else interested would be welcome to join too :))

Yea tinychats where I do it most of the time, maybe you could stop by and check out when I'm doing it for a quick second haha and of course! The more the merrier... I'll make a new group hang out place tonight on tinychat and post up the link... and ally needs to get her webcam working! Lol :D and yea whenever Fkeu... I'm pretty much doing it everynight in fact I'm getting the rest of my lights sometime this week (they're over at storage but I'm just going to set them up in my room)

hey! thats a good idea Stan! thanks! :P i could do that if i get the smoke detecter and stuff.. but its so expensive.. LOL

No! No smoke detector! Thats baaaaaaad lol thats what went off in my room when I was on tinychat the other day, the high pitch beeping? Yea it was that that sent me running out of the room with lol and what stuff are ye talkin about?

OOO i thought you said that haha oops :P other stuff as in the lights and stuff LOL!