Travis Scott and Pearl Jam’s festival tragedies are scarily similar

Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld will go down as certainly one of many largest dwell efficiency tragedies in historic previous.

Eight individuals had been killed and a whole lot extra injured in a crowd surge on the rapper’s Houston pageant on November fifth.

The fatalities occurred as followers have been stampeded whereas Travis was appearing on the first night of the dwell efficiency at NRG Park.

As Friday night’s events keep extraordinarily raw, people are remembering one different dwell efficiency tragedy that was frighteningly associated.

What occurred all through Pearl Jam’s 2000 effectivity at Roskilde Competitors?

Pearl Jam’s 2000 tragedy revisited

Over 20 years up to now, a devastating tragedy occurred at one in every of rock band Pearl Jam’s live performance occasions.

Pearl Jam have been appearing at Denmark’s Roskilde Competitors on June thirtieth 2000 as part of their European tour when 9 followers died in a crowd surge.

The victims have been crushed, trampled and suffocated in a stampede on the Copenhagen pageant the place the likes of Iron Maiden and Oasis have been performing.

Whereas performing, Pearl Jam reportedly had no idea what was taking place inside the crowd nonetheless stopped the dwell efficiency as rapidly as they’ve been made aware of the accidents.

The two remaining dates of the tour have been cancelled, as have been two completely different live performance occasions in July.

The band was blamed for the incident

Following the tragedy, a preliminary Danish police investigation found Pearl Jam “morally accountable” for the incident.

Nonetheless, the band felt this was unfair and launched an announcement throughout which they talked about:

“When one factor this disastrous occurs, when this many lives are misplaced, it’s vital that every aspect be examined completely and from all angles. Thus far, we don’t actually really feel this has been achieved.”

“We actually really feel that we’re ‘morally accountable’ to hold out the fact with regard to what occurred that night,” they continued sooner than claiming that the accident “can’t be written off solely as a ‘freak accident’ or ‘harmful luck’.”

They requested authorities to investigate the pageant security, emergency response, staging setup and alcohol preparations as parts that each one impacted the accident.

“It’s our notion that if we had been educated of a attainable draw back in the mean time that it was first acknowledged bythe pageant security, we would have stopped the current earlier and lives might need been saved,” as well as they talked about.

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Astroworld and Roskilde Competitors are scarily associated

The tragedies at Astroworld 2021 and Roskilde Competitors 2000 have scary parallels.

A crowd surge occurred at every events, and they also every had a scarily associated number of fatalities.

Following the Astroworld incident, Travis Scott is being blamed for the deaths similar to the members of Pearl Jam have been.

Nonetheless, the investigation in opposition to Travis Scott is means additional extreme, as he’s being personally sued for “inciting the gang”.

Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee launched on Monday (November eighth) that his company was submitting a lawsuit on behalf of 35 plaintiffs over the “gross negligence” of the dwell efficiency.

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