AstroWorld Festival Disaster

Weston1283
Weston1283 Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 5,015
in A Moving Train
https://abc13.com/amp/astroworld-festival-canceled-deaths-fatal-texas-concert/11203827/

8 people dead after the crowd surged forward during a Travis Scott performance.  The surge happened when Drake came on stage.

As we all know, this kind of thing has happened in the past.  Feel horrible for all of the victims and families involved.  

In 2021, there has to be a way that we can avoid this at large music festivals 
2010: Cleveland
2012: Atlanta
2013: London ONT / Wrigley Field / Pittsburgh / Buffalo / San Diego / Los Angeles I / Los Angeles II
2014: Cincinnati / St. Louis / Tulsa / Lincoln / Detroit / Denver
2015: New York City
2016: Ft. Lauderdale / Miami / Jacksonville / Greenville / Hampton / Columbia / Lexington / Philly II / New York City II / Toronto II / Bonnaroo / Telluride / Fenway I / Wrigley I / Wrigley - II / TOTD - Philadelphia, San Francisco
2017: Ohana Fest (EV)
2018: Amsterdam I / Amsterdam II / Seattle I / Seattle II / Boston I / Boston II
2021: Asbury Park / Ohana Encore 1 / Ohana Encore 2
2022: Phoenix / LA I / LA II / Quebec City / Ottawa / New York City / Camden / Nashville / St. Louis / Denver
2023: St. Paul II
2024: Las Vegas I / Las Vegas II / New York City I / New York City II / Philly I / Philly II / Baltimore
«13

Comments

  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,215
    Awful news 
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    Sick to my stomach reading this this morning. There are some vids out there earlier in the day that show a chaotic scene that security could not handle. 
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,572
    Damn awful news poor folks! 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Weston1283
    Weston1283 Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 5,015
    PJNB said:
    Sick to my stomach reading this this morning. There are some vids out there earlier in the day that show a chaotic scene that security could not handle. 
    If that’s true, then it makes this entire thing even worse if they knew they had a crowd they couldn’t control and still decided to proceed 
    2010: Cleveland
    2012: Atlanta
    2013: London ONT / Wrigley Field / Pittsburgh / Buffalo / San Diego / Los Angeles I / Los Angeles II
    2014: Cincinnati / St. Louis / Tulsa / Lincoln / Detroit / Denver
    2015: New York City
    2016: Ft. Lauderdale / Miami / Jacksonville / Greenville / Hampton / Columbia / Lexington / Philly II / New York City II / Toronto II / Bonnaroo / Telluride / Fenway I / Wrigley I / Wrigley - II / TOTD - Philadelphia, San Francisco
    2017: Ohana Fest (EV)
    2018: Amsterdam I / Amsterdam II / Seattle I / Seattle II / Boston I / Boston II
    2021: Asbury Park / Ohana Encore 1 / Ohana Encore 2
    2022: Phoenix / LA I / LA II / Quebec City / Ottawa / New York City / Camden / Nashville / St. Louis / Denver
    2023: St. Paul II
    2024: Las Vegas I / Las Vegas II / New York City I / New York City II / Philly I / Philly II / Baltimore
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,406
    Weston1283 said:
    PJNB said:
    Sick to my stomach reading this this morning. There are some vids out there earlier in the day that show a chaotic scene that security could not handle. 
    If that’s true, then it makes this entire thing even worse if they knew they had a crowd they couldn’t control and still decided to proceed 
    There are videos of emergency vehicles trying to make their way through the crowd and people jumping on them.

  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    Language warning and trampling warning. No deaths in these vids but shine some light of stuff that happened to lead up to the event. 













  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,172
    People are just awful
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,572
    rush rush for what? 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Gern Blansten said:
    People are just awful
    And pigs. 
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,406
    josevolution said:
    rush rush for what? 
    Not sure but he (Travis Scott) has a history of encouraging his fans to ignore the normal concert protocols.
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    What in the actual fuck?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    Those videos are tough to watch.
    Looked like mostly young people.
    There seemed to be ZERO organization. Security was just trying to trip people as they ran by. Farcical.
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    I read an article that said that there was an Astroworld concert in 2019 that had all the same security and gate issues, with people rushing the gates, forcing their way through and hopping over the turnstyles, though luckily no deaths. The organizers learned nothing from that experience. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • biz999
    biz999 Posts: 174
    I had a lengthy comment ready to go but deleted it... I'm just really sad about all this.

    Regardless of organization, genre, history, whatever - kids died here by just going to a concert.  
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Terrible for the family and friends of the kids who died.  Part of the blame is obviously security, but part of it also has to be on the behavior of the spectators.
    Personally, I don't get the appeal of that kind of show in the first place.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    Do people run like that when the gates open for a pj show?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • cblock4life
    cblock4life Posts: 1,855
    edited November 2021
    josevolution said:
    rush rush for what? 
    I heard the same as the OP, not sure if it’s true, that the crowd came from another stage where someone just finished and they were trying to get to the front of the main stage for Drake…..only heard it once though and haven’t had time to reinvestigate but I will. 

    I’ve been to many festivals and it happens but never that bad obviously.  Anyone at ACL when Eminem and PJ were there?  Thousands of us were stuck behind the Lorde crowd trying to get to the main stage…..it was difficult to breath because I’m only 5’1”.  It was a scary experience for sure. This is such a tragedy. 
    Post edited by cblock4life on
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,825
    edited November 2021
    mcgruff10 said:
    Do people run like that when the gates open for a pj show?
    Actually did remind me of Wrigley 13 after the rain delay. We were in the pit and they put us in the VIP backstage area for the delay. A few hours later when the all clear was given it was pretty bad, and people who were clearly not wearing a pit wristband were jumping the fence right in front of security and they didn’t even care at that point.
    Wasn’t this bad, but still crazy.
    Post edited by mace1229 on
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    edited November 2021
    mcgruff10 said:
    Do people run like that when the gates open for a pj show?

    These are people that are not paying trying to get through security for the most part it looks like. They are doing this with the blessing of the event organizer  and headliner Travis Scott. People definitely run more of a controlled manner for the PJ/EV fests I have been too. One person runs and everyone does. This is after scanning in though and not kick the front door down. 

    Here is his tweet after the event sold out back in the spring. 

    Travis Deleted Tweet travisscott
  • Weston1283
    Weston1283 Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 5,015
    Just got this email from my alma mater, Univ of Dayton

    A UD student was sadly one of the 8 who passed at the festival

    https://flyernews.com/campus/ud-community-mourns-two-student-deaths-in-one-week/11/06/2021/
    2010: Cleveland
    2012: Atlanta
    2013: London ONT / Wrigley Field / Pittsburgh / Buffalo / San Diego / Los Angeles I / Los Angeles II
    2014: Cincinnati / St. Louis / Tulsa / Lincoln / Detroit / Denver
    2015: New York City
    2016: Ft. Lauderdale / Miami / Jacksonville / Greenville / Hampton / Columbia / Lexington / Philly II / New York City II / Toronto II / Bonnaroo / Telluride / Fenway I / Wrigley I / Wrigley - II / TOTD - Philadelphia, San Francisco
    2017: Ohana Fest (EV)
    2018: Amsterdam I / Amsterdam II / Seattle I / Seattle II / Boston I / Boston II
    2021: Asbury Park / Ohana Encore 1 / Ohana Encore 2
    2022: Phoenix / LA I / LA II / Quebec City / Ottawa / New York City / Camden / Nashville / St. Louis / Denver
    2023: St. Paul II
    2024: Las Vegas I / Las Vegas II / New York City I / New York City II / Philly I / Philly II / Baltimore

Categories