Listen to the music critic for Houston Chronicle describe the scene at the Astroworld Festival on Friday
In his roughly 10 years of overlaying Houston’s music scene, critic Joey Guerra had by no means witnessed one thing as tragic as what occurred late Friday evening on the Astroworld Competition.
“I’ve by no means seen a present lead to something like this,” Guerra advised CNN over the telephone Saturday morning.
Guerra had arrived on the competition within the early afternoon and all through the day he noticed a “regular competition environment.”
By the point Travis Scott took the stage later that evening, Guerra was towards the again of the viewers and noticed small emergency automobiles slicing by way of the crowds however “for a competition, it did not appear out of the bizarre.”
“You see issues like that lots, folks being carried out due to exhaustion or dehydration or issues like that,” Guerra stated. “He did cease the present, I wish to say, three or 4 instances when he seen folks in misery.”
Guerra stated Scott performed for about 75 minutes earlier than the set was stopped.
Take heed to Guerra’s interview here or under:
