: Eight concertgoers are dead and scores more were injured on Saturday during a crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston. The event, which took place on the grounds of NRG Stadium, saw around 50,000 attend, and turned tragic when packed audience members got caught in a surge during Scott’s set Saturday.
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
Tragedy at Astroworld in Houston the Latest Safety Lapse at Live Nation Event
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: Eight concertgoers are dead and scores more were injured on Saturday during a crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston. The event, which took place on the grounds of NRG Stadium, saw around 50,000 attend, and turned tragic when packed audience members got caught in a surge during Scott’s set Saturday.
: Eight concertgoers are dead and scores more were injured on Saturday during a crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston. The event, which took place on the grounds of NRG Stadium, saw around 50,000 attend, and turned tragic when packed audience members got caught in a surge during Scott’s set Saturday.
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This article covers one of the things I hadn’t really thought about with this tragedy until now: Live Nation and their disregard for safety protocols if the corners cut makes them more money. In just 3 years they’ve had 10 official citations by OSHA and in a 15 year period there have been over 200 deaths and over 750 injuries at Live Nation events. There’s a history of their events having dangerous conditions, and the fact that safety wasn’t a top priority for them as a promoter is appalling. Danger at Astroworld really shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone involved on the production end. From personal experience, rap crowds are much more dangerous than any other type of music crowd I’ve been in, and I’ve been in hardcore, emo, and EDM crowds. With the latter ones, there’s a culture of supporting other people when they fall, faint, or are injured and keeps everyone involved relatively safe. This is not true of rap crowds, where 20-something frat boys and obsessed teenagers do not give a shit about anything except getting as close as they can. It’s astonishing.
The more I read about what happened with the Travis Scott Astroworld festival last week, the more disturbing it gets. This article in particular delved into Live Nation, the “largest entertainment promoter in the world” who was responsible for the promotion of this Astroworld music festival. This company is seriously concerning; the article stated that in just a three year time span, they received ten citations from OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and were also responsible for two other separate occasions where multiple audience members were critically injured at a musical performance event. And the lack of empathy and care for both what has happened in the past and the Travis Scott incident is frustrating and pathetic. Unfortunately, this is a common theme seen in the whole of the music and entertainment industry; big companies prioritizing profit and wealth over the safety of the performers, crew, and audience has only proven to be on an increase in modern times.
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