Live Shows: Shame and They Hate Change, The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 9/7/22
Photo by Sam Gregg I've been saying for a while that one thing that is missing with punk and metal shows these days is a sense of danger, or at least a feeling that anything could happen. Any footage I've seen of Nine Inch Nails' Boston Calling set is a sea of people standing perfectly still holding up cell phones, and over the summer I watched a bunch of kids form a conga line in the "pit" during 7 Seconds' set at the House of Blues. You even hear people talk about getting "pit" tickets when they just mean general admission floor tickets. I'm happy to report that thanks to Shame, the menace is back with punk rock. That's not to say that the crowd this past Wednesday night was filled with hardcore moshing. If anything, it was more a pogo pit with a little pushing and bumping around. But, I also haven't seen a band work this much of the crowd into such a frenzy for such a large amount of the show in a long, long time. By the time the Londo...