Mosh Pit Injuries: what's your worst?

Amy -

"So Higher Power were playing the first song of their set and within 30 seconds there was a stomp part, so I went into the pit. Then out of nowhere, a fist flew straight into my face and I felt this crazy pain. I thought it was just a quick knock and would leave a bruise so just carried on until I felt my nose and then boom. Blood was literally pouring out my nose and i let out a massive scream and ran to the toilets leaving trails of blood on the floor. I asked the security if they wanted me to clean it up but then declined my offer. I found out later that the barrier in that venue had then been moved to the side of the wall so that there was space for a bloody stretcher to be carted alongside it something like that was going to happen again. How tragic! But yeah, my nose was crunching for weeks after that."

Sam -

"So it was 2015 and I was at the Kerrang tour and Don Broco were playing. They called for a wall of death and, in the excitement, I decided it would be funny to join in. The wall of death started and I ran forward, however, I tripped on my own feet and fell on my face. The wall carried on moving and the two sides hadn't even touched yet, so I got dragged along the floor by loads of people. I felt the pressure on my ribs and hips as they were getting pushed down and I still have scars on my hips from the skin getting take off from the wooden floor. Also, it was Outbreak 2018 and in the space of one set (Turnstile) I was kicked in the head, had my head hit the stage as me and a passing stage diver collided. Along with this, I had a black toe due to somone standing on it during Year of the Knife. I remember coming out of Turnstile limping, feeling dazed and generally beaten up"

Jake-

"I dislocated my knee lifting up someone to crowd surf to roam at slamdunk 2014 or 15. I have a fucked knee anyway pre opp ACL reconstruction, they threw out body boards for people to crowd surf on and people were running on them. Me and this other dude were throwing them up and as they got to them and I fucked up my stance and my knee rolled over"

Jack-

"Basically, we opened up for Grove Street in Stafford on the 22nd June (day before my 20th birthday). We finished playing our set, and Force of Neglect were on next. The crowd was absolutely dead for our set, so I thought eh why not get things started n have a boogie. So I did for like 10 whole seconds and then stood to the side- next thing I know I’m leaning over the bathroom in Redrum with blood pissing out my nose. Apparently, one of my friends elbowed me in the side of the head and I fell back and hit my head on the floor dead hard; I had no fucking clue where I was and how I got there. I was sat outside the venue and turned to phil and said “right, when do we play”. He said “ermmm jack we’ve already been on” and I was like “no we haven’t?”. Obviously we had already played. I got taken to the hospital by my mum (big up) and had to have a cannula put in. I ended up having 3 X-rays, 2 of which were on my head and neck, and one on my chest and back, also I had an ECG and 2 bags of saline through a drip. I left the hospital at like 5am on my birthday and then a few hours later played the best set of my life in Huddersfield for Resist's EP release. So yeah, all things considered, was a good weekend "

Sascha-

"Took a fist straight to the face at a Stranded show in London. I bled the fuck out, broke my nose, went to clean myself and went back in for a dance. After, I woke up the next day with two black eyes."

Jack-

"I got put in a headlock by a 40 year old skinhead in stone island during a Catfish set at a festival"

Frazer-

"Hit in the eye and nose with a 10 inch double ended dildo"

Harry-

"Stood in the middle of a The Amity Affliction pit, turn around and see a fist come towards me and popped my nose. Went to run into a Crossfaith pit and got punched in the throat. When I was like 14 I went to run into an Asking Alexandria pit and got swiftly kicked in the balls. Best one has to be watching Deez Nuts at Slam Dunk 2015, was two stepping then someone picked up a short Asian guy and threw him at me it knocked my front teeth loose for a couple weeks. Also, not my injury, but at another show, some kid was being walked downstairs his dad holding his head tightly and blood everywhere, he let go for a second and his eye started to pop out it was grim"

Perry-

"When I was like 15 I saw While She Sleeps at the O2 Academy. Some dude was two stepping next to me, but he was using a lot of elbow and he got me straight on the nose. Was crease cause it turned out to be a very good friend of mine, so we spent the rest of the show laughing whilst my nose wouldn’t stop bleeding"

Faith-

"My 120 lb sixteen year old self somehow ended up with barricade for attila at warped tour and ended up with a concussion from falling and being stepped on"

Matt-

"I got pushed and punched in the face, throwing my glasses into a pit at Reading. I had to go about the rest of the festival basically blind"

Beth-

"I was 16 and at a festival watching Malev whilst waiting for another band to come on. Then some grown ass random guy walked through the crowd and punched me square in the nose. I honestly didn’t know how to react other than to try to pretend it didn’t happen- it’s frustrating because if it had happened now, i’d have kicked 7 shades of shit out of him. But no, i’m just stuck with the embarrassing memory!"

Kieran-

"Still can’t get over me being on crutches after kicking that lads head off during Code Orange with a bruised metatarsal"

Josh-

"Stranded’s first show supporting Dead Harts at the Rainbow in Bham. I was proper looking forward to seeing their set and the first song they played was a cover of Shattered Realm - All will suffer and it popped off straight away. I went in the pit for a second, then as I was stood on the side someone kicked me directly in the nose with a Doc Martin boot and it pretty much broke my nose into a 90 degree angle!"

Phil-

"Me getting KO’d to clawhammer at shedfest 2016"

Got any other funny mosh pit injuries to share? Get in touch, we'd love to hear! 

By Amy Demidow