Worst ever festival line up?

my friend saw that and said NEANDERTHAL, WE ARE GOING

i want to. sounds like a fuckin' party

And here I thought this was going to be a bump of that Lollapalooza poster I've been seeing going around that just has "THE DELTA VARIANT" listed across it.

jesus, when too short, juvie, ying yang and mike jones are on the second to last line...

I heard the prices for that were pretty insane, especially for a single day fest.

https://i.imgur.com/UdStxWl.jpeg

I wonder how many original members are on that bill? And I'm including Joe Piscopo, who by all accounts is an enormous member.

Now if it were Joe Piscopo's Yacht Rock Review I might have been tempted.

"Positively NO masks or vaccinations on board."

one original member in The Beach Boys, one in The Temptations, assuming that there will only be one in the Monkees, and that nobody here knows the name of any members of the Surfrajettes

lol i actually can name several surfrajettes, theyre a modern/non-elderly band

nesmith and dolenz are the monkees!

It's just Dolenz, I read an article about it last week.

Just Mike Love for the Beach Boys (although Bruce Johnston and rumours of Blondie Chapman).

blondie is playing with brian right now. the current monkees lineup is def nes and mickey!

Is John Cowsill playing with the Beach Boys? (He did a few years ago.) They could add The Cowsills to the lineup!

the current monkees lineup is def nes and mickey!

The final show of that lineup is in November apparently.

Cowsill has been full-time in the Beach Boys for 21 years.

Nez and Dolenz are sometimes both in the Monkees these days, but I doubt Nesmith would play a pandemic cruise.

(It was the combination of modernity and obscurity that made me caveat the Surfrajettes!)

ahh got it! final nez mickey show is at the greek in nov, then mickey goin solo as "the monkees." ty!

nez is on the covid cruise!

https://i.imgur.com/yeDhm04.jpg

Wow

Holy shit:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/injuries-reported-near-nrg/285-19d48d85-2564-4242-bdcc-084677f6d6d8

Astroworld Festival update: 8 confirmed deaths, many others injured during Travis Scott concert

About two dozen people were rushed to Houston hospitals and at least 11 were in cardiac arrest, HFD Chief Pena said. The victims were as young as 10 years old.

God it's like a much worse version of the Pearl Jam show incident. Horrifying.

Not good news to wake up to.

I literally live 5 minutes from the concert site, close enough that last I could hear the fest and the music from inside my place. I was watching the news when this was happening, so I didn't hear said music stopping, and whatever initial local news coverage was a little after the fact.

My heart breaks for everybody. It'd been a treat this week watching the news leading up to the show, seeing coverage of all the charity stuff Scott's been doing around town, and then finally the reports from earlier yesterday from the opening of the festival, all these excited concert-goers getting interviewed and such.

This is hard time for Hip Hop fans in Houston. Just a couple weeks ago there was another show--forget the act, one of those new guys--that was being put on at an indoor arena in the same complex as this fest. People were in line for hours on a hot day when a sudden rain storm came up and eventually the gates were opened early to get everyone out of that, only to be left waiting for couple more hours inside before an announcement that the show had been cancelled. A minor riot ensued with skirmishes w/the police/security, and tramplings (although iirc no fatalities).

The details reported here are even more horrifying and infuritating:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/at-least-8-dead-after-panic-at-astroworld-festival-in-texas-during-travis-scott-opening-night-set-with-drake?ref=home

First thing this morning, I turned on CNN during an interview with a woman who had barely escaped the crush: she said a countdown began on the screen, 30 minutes before "he" (presumably Scott) appeared---as it got to 0, she told her boyfriend she couldn't breathe, passed out, woke up sitting in a relatively secure area. He'd had the crowd pass her overhead, and somehow they were able to do this, despite the surges: true crowdsurfing, 'til finally a security guard got her. She's a nurse, and observed that the "medics" (quotes audible) couldn't seem to do anything but apply icepacks to victims; "he didn't know how to find or take a pulse" etc. She said she's okay, just still trying to absorb all this (neither she not interviewer seemed to know about any deaths yet, though was mention of somebody in critical condition)

this is from TMZ so, y'know... but wtf

7:30 AM PT -- A source connected to Astroworld tells TMZ, someone in the crowd went crazy and began injecting people with some sort of drug, which caused panic and then a surge. The source says authorities are trying to determine if those who went into cardiac arrest were the ones injected. We're told one of those who died is a 10-year-old. The source says it appears to be a targeted attack. We have not confirmed this report, but the source is a key person involved in the festival.

xpost Think she said they'd tried to leave during the countdown, were too hemmed in.

Yeah the one in critical condition was a child, they knew that much during the interview (which was like 9:45 Central).

Looking at those videos in the Daily Beast piece, somebody really needed to relay to Scott why the ambulance was there and that they needed to halt the show for at least a little bit to get things sorted out.

Playing Devil's Advocate for the audience for a minute, if you didn't know better, you may have the ambulance had more performers in it, being led to the stage as part of some immersive concert experience or something.

I wasn't watching the clock too closely, but it felt like there was music going 'til at least 10:00 PM or so.

'may have thought'

The video of the cameraman being approached by two distraught attendees screaming and gesturing to stop the show and him angrily shooing them away was infuriating.

Sure, I doubt he could hear what they're saying, but their body language and mannerisms were pretty hard to mistake and he kept telling them to essentially fuck off

If you’re wondering how seriously Scott or his team took the gravity of that incident or their role in it….STARGAZING premiered the next year in 2018, while the lawsuits related to the case were ongoing. pic.twitter.com/gL6P06sI4u

— Cupcake Posting Their Ws (@lorenacupcake) November 6, 2021

what a nightmare

Earlier in the day at around 2 p.m. local time, hundreds of eager and rowdy concertgoers had stampeded the entrance of the festival, just outside of NRG Park, knocking over fences and metal detectors, and appearing to overwhelm understaffed security teams guarding the perimeter. No major injuries were reported from the rush.

So they basically had warning 7 hours earlier that the crowd control in place wasn't adequate?

Video of that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W_njKnR6Q0

Sorry, I didn't think that would embed.

Not only that, but there was major crowd incident AT THE SAME VENUE two weeks ago that should have been used as a teachable moment, but wasn't.

Apparently, that’s from the guy who was dancing on top of the ambulance, and just… *sigh* Let’s try to be less sociopathic. https://t.co/vgeRvIOAyo

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 6, 2021

The incident a couple weeks ago was a cancelled Playboy Carti show. This venue is in the same complex as the AstroWorld fest, probably used the same security ops and cops, and was attended by a lot of the same people.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/10/24/concertgoers-create-chaotic-scene-at-nrg-arena-after-rapper-playboi-carti-cancels-houston-show/

It's been a long time since I worked around/near performance contracts, but if the show was stopped early would they still have been paid?

I have to think it was a financial decision to try going just 35 more minutes and then deal with it. I'm sure we'll hear more about who was making the call. The idea of having the conditions that were going on at 9:30, pushing toward the stage already, and then sending Drake out into that as a surprise guest...

This is from when the merch line opened earlier on Friday:

Damn merch line lit astroworld 📸 @Ovrnundr @swellberry pic.twitter.com/WCIeY8GfOU

— NTWRK (@NTWRKLIVE) November 5, 2021

Man, they really needed sturdier barricades, something with some weight.

a lot of anecdotes about travis scott just not giving a shit about the well-being of others have come up. I don’t know, that probably plays into it, but it’s not as if the people running the festival had no idea that he’s known for encouraging the crowd to be chaotic, mosh, rush the stage

just such a total shitshow

Remember like three months ago when Bill Simmons released a whole HBO documentary about how a concert tragedy was caused by nu-metal bands and white male “rage” and not, say, the concert industry’s unchecked underregulated vampiric *greed*?

How’s that theory holding up?

— Christopher R. Weingarten (@1000TimesYes) November 8, 2021

one of the cameramen purportedly told panicked fans trying to ask him to stop the show "we're aware of the situation. we can't stop the show, it's streaming live."

the decision had zilch to do with safety.

Hey maybe they can stream their trial as well?

Cameraman also getting all kinds of death threats which is not fucking cool at all.

definitely not. you can ask questions and hold people accountable without going nuclear, esp in this era of mistaken identity.

especially when they are not the string-pullers with that decision making

I'm not even sure what people expected a cameraman to do

I'm not even sure what people expected a cameraman to do

Speak into the headset they use to communicate with the production booth and explain that there's a medical emergency, that people are being crushed?

use their radio to alert other members of staff? at this point I think people were looking for anybody that had an electronic device they could talk through that would cut through the din

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