As the concert world has cautiously returned from 18 months of pandemic lockdown, festivals have been a major force in that comeback, both for fans and promoters. Yet the tragedy at Travis Scott’s …
As the concert world has cautiously returned from 18 months of pandemic lockdown, festivals have been a major force in that comeback, both for fans and promoters. Yet the tragedy at’s Astroworld festival at Houston’s NRG Park, which left at least eight people dead and more than 300 injured as fans rushed toward the stage during Scott’s headlining performance, showed just how quickly disaster can occur.
However, it is important to note that in any dense crowd — let alone a rowdy, amped-up, 50,000-strong hip-hop audience with loud music playing — it is extremely difficult to get a read on the wider situation. “I got there around 3 and saw people already struggling to stand straight,” she told the Times on Saturday. “There was a lot of mob mentality going on, people willing to do whatever to be in line for merch, food, shows, you name it. A lot of fights broke out throughout the day.”, “It was definitely overcrowded. It was insane, honestly. I knew it was just way too crowded – it just got worse and worse as I got closer to Travis Scott performing it got more crowded, more crowded, more crowded.
Shareen Memon, 25, who attended the show, told the Houston Chronicle, “So many people were just pushing against the barrier. Everything was calm until Travis came out — it went crazy. At one point you couldn’t even breathe and that’s when I knew. As soon as that song ‘Highest in the Room’ was over that’s when we started going out. Even when we were trying to get out people weren’t letting us go past them.
Scott paused the show and asked for calm on several occasions — and even noted that an ambulance was in the crowd. While video shows him speaking with staffers during the set, presumably about the uproar in the crowd, he continued with the set. “Travis Scott, he took pauses to point at the crowd to say, like, ‘Go help them — they’re passed out,’ ” concertgoer Angel Rodriguez told the New York Times. “He did it like three times. He pointed to the area where it was and said for everybody in the area to go help them and bring them to the front.”
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