Are you ready to ROCK???

Are YOU ready to ROCK?

This is a typical question to start a concert in the West. People react by screaming like crazy~~! Today, I am going to cover some Rock & Roll English. Enjoy!

In the West, we don't have "live houses" this is katakana English but we will probably understand what you mean. We call places where you see live music; bars , clubs, concert halls, arenas and stadiums.

Bars are small places where people drink beer and they might have occasional live shows in which case there will be a cover charge or admission fee. This means you will have to pay to get in.

Clubs are bigger, usually for drinking and dancing. They often feature famous DJs with high entry fees but sometimes have live acts as well. They can have anywhere from 100 to 1000 people, sometimes more...

Concert halls are more upscale, for things like classical music or opera and can seat anywhere from 100 to 10000 people but a concert hall that big is rare. These places also have live bans sometimes that might be more Rock N Roll than Mozart.

Arenas are basically skating rinks where the ice has been removed and a huge stage built. These places can accommodate anywhere from 500 to 5000 people. I saw many heavy metal bands at the Verdun Arena when I was in high school...

Stadiums are HUGE, usually built for baseball, soccer or some other sport they are often used to host really famous music acts. They can seat over 10000 people most of the time...

Open seating means there are NO assigned seats, you just show up early and grab whatever seat you can. We often use the expression "first come, first served" in this kind of situation which means the first person to arrive will get first choice ^_- The opposite of this is Reserved seating.

Yeah, so when I was in high school I was a headbanger or metalhead. That means I was into HEAVY METAL so I had long hair, wore concert t-shirts and jeans. Heavy metal is music like Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Megadeth, Biohazard, etc. (I saw all those bands in concert!)

When you go to a metal concert it is common to mosh, which is basically kind of dancing around and hitting into people. A huge crowd of people will form into a mosh pit. Be careful, if you jump into one and you don't know what you are doing you might get hurt~!

Here's a video to give you an idea:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=iLUCFXcK0Oc

Also, at rock concerts you might crowd surf:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zO-OybVSy4g

You basically are carried or thrown around by the crowd!

The last one is stage diving, this is where you climb on stage and then jump into the crowd and start crowd surfing:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=RG7JKKwNvvw


Ok that's all for now... have a nice night,

Phil

P.S. Sorry about the links but youtube's embedded player was not working...