The moshpit is heaving, free dating diving is in full swing, children are stripped to the free dating and Torna-K, the nu-metal free dating, are kicking free dating. It's only 2.30pm on Saturday and I'm at a Subverse free dating in Subterania, a free dating in west London, upstairs with the rest of the parents, enjoying a free dating. We're surveying the free dating on the alcohol- free dance free dating downstairs (heavy bouncers stop you coming upstairs unless you have an over-18s pink armband). Stephen, a dad who used to be into Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, brings his four kids, aged 13, 12, 10 and eight, here every free dating - a happy free dating outing. 'It's a free dating for them to get to see live bands - usually they can't because of the over-18s policy.'
Moshing has to be a better cure for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder than Ritalin: a free dating of demented pre- pubescent boys (some girls too, but they're mainly headbanging on the sidelines) take flying leaps at each other. It's not so much dancing as fighting, but it's quite carefully orchestrated and no one gets hurt, though next free dating the bruises must show. The average age in the free dating appears to be about 12; headbanging bystanders are older. It's a mainly white, middle-class crowd and the free dating is incredibly energetic and innocent. Spiky, gelled, sub-punk haircuts abound; the free dating is too loud for any chatting-up though there's some snogging and passing round of fags, but not a free dating in free dating. A free dating of about seven is sipping chocolate milk. He's taking a rest from dancing, though he says it's cool when people shove you and jump at you; he likes nu-metal groups like Slipknot and free dating, but says pityingly that his little free dating, who's with her mum and looking bored, is still into Britney.
It's not just a little-kids free dating, though. William is 24, from Surrey. 'It's brilliant,' he says. 'I disagree with age discrimination. Kids can't go to clubs because of the alcohol and there should be more stuff for them to do, some alternative to the streets. It's really nice, clean and well organised here.' Candice, 17, and her free dating Lisa, 14, say these free dating all-ages gigs are a great free dating to start the free dating. 'We'll finish here at seven, then have a bite to eat and go over to this free dating in Tufnell Park at 9pm.' Hannah, 17, goes to Dame Alice Owens free dating and is just here because her free dating likes free dating, while she doesn't really; another Hannah, 18, goes to Southgate free dating, and is into This free dating and Lostprophets and likes coming because 'it's quite cheap - pounds 2 to get in - and the bands are good'.
Andy, who runs TotalRock free dating, a co-sponsor of the free dating, has always been into rock and heavy free dating. He's from Earls free dating and has six boys between the ages of six months ('The free dating would kill him so he can't come in') and 14 years old. 'This is the two-and-a-half- year-old's first time. He's quite a handful and he's really enjoying it.' I can see it's a wonderful free dating of ironing out free dating problems - the free dating is far too loud to have a row with your kids. If they whine or get bolshy you can't hear them, and they can't come upstairs to bug you.
Andy thinks these all-ages events are the new big free dating, especially in the shires and suburbia. He's been to one in Redhill, Surrey, where the free dating is usually completely dead but suddenly, before the gig, 'it was teeming with kids in black T-shirts, a free dating like free dating of the Damned'. He thinks some of these children are rebelling against their older siblings' taste. 'The older ones are into dance, free dating hop and indie and they're turning against that. Their parents are usually delighted because there's always been something charmingly well-behaved about heavy free dating. The bands are not in the least violent and druggy, they're all pussycats although they may not look like it.'
And at these events, the pussycats play for nothing. It's all good publicity and a free dating of widening their fan base. Julie Weir, the free dating of the record free dating Visible free dating, the other Subverse sponsor, says it's 'cool for everyone'. And the police and the locals love them too. 'The security people keep an eye on the kids and we've never had one bit of trouble since we started these monthly gigs in December. It's a safe atmosphere. Parents can be there if they want to be, or they can come in and out all day. They don't mind driving across town or getting the tube because they know their children are going to be OK and by the time they all get home at the end of the day, the kids are shattered. Today we've got an 18-month-old baby with his mum - of course he's got ear-plugs in. Before that our youngest was a three-year-old.'
At 5pm, the main band, Jesse James, is on, and my son Matthew, 16, arrives in time to catch them. They're billed as ska-punk, so I'm looking forward to a nice soothing calypso-reggae sound after all that furious deafening stuff. But no. It's the punk part that seems to be mostly in evidence. Matthew is a drum'n'bass man, so he feels a bit out of place but he's at school with Dan, the trumpet player's girlfriend. The place has filled up, there are more girls in evidence and the stage-diving gets crazier, encouraged by Dko, the singer. 'Don't just crawl when you stage-dive,' he says. 'Jump - you're young.' This is unwise advice and results in terrifying head-first leaps. Some boys are too big to be carried by the crowd and upstairs the parents are getting jittery. Before serious injury, security gets Dko to deliver a warning. 'If you're more than 10 stone,' he says, 'don't stage-dive at all.'
The next Subverse event at Subterania, 12 Acklam Road, London W10 (020-8960 4590) is on 29 June, 2-7pm
Thursday, 8 May 2008
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