I just went to a small town today within Manchester (Bury, pronounced Berry) to trade some 360 games in to the local CeX, met a mate for lunch and got talking to him and they were saying there used to be a metal bar around the corner from the pub we were talking in called Siberia and opposite this club there was a chav club (like dance music dickheads with gold chains and sports gear probably smackheads or crackheads) and they used to beat the ever living shit out of each other on a weekly basis for years on end apparently.
My mate was saying loads of scraps happen with metalheads and it's good to know how to fight around here because chavs hang about in groups and are always willing to attack/mug you just for being different. These chav dickheads also try to get into metal so you can imagine the sort of shit they bring to gigs/festivals, (like literally just buying a ticket to go and rob peoples tents) especially at gigs with Skindred supporting someone lol. I should probs do a poll on my fb, it's kinda interesting now I think about it.
I asked him about fighting at gigs as well, he pretty much said the same as me tho, I was all "someone said fighting doesn't happen much at their gigs so wtf?" and he was all "HAHA they probs don't go to gigs or at least around here then, I've seen it TONS of times and been in a few scraps myself, even in bloody LANDAAN, probs talking shit mate! Metalheads aren't perfect angels, far from it haha! You remember that time that lesbian lass went to the bar at Down and that Dave called her a fucking dyke and she went "YOU WHAT?" then threw that dickhead through the merch table and they got kicked out cause she beat the shit out of him and there was blood everywhere? Someone asked me about that and asking me if they knew Dave got the shit kicked out of him by a girl? Haha I laughed like fuck at that because I knew the girl. Though she got chucked out herself because she probs shouldn't of beat him up that much like."
So yeah, guess it depends where you go and on culture. I mean, Manchester isn't exactly well known for being safe or friendly on the whole lol.