A stage constructed solely for Travis Scott’s performance, and the artist’s chosen set time, may have played a role in the crowd surge that left eight Astroworld Festival attendees dead…
The concert drew 50,000 people to Houston’s NRG Park, where performers included SZA, Lil Baby and Roddy Ricch, among others, but while billed as a two stage event, Astroworld veered from the usual festival protocol of staggering performances on opposite stages, as Scott was the only headliner on the so-called “Chills” stage.that the stage used by Scott, dubbed “Utopia Mountain,” was constructed at a cost of some $5 million and purportedly per the artist’s visual specifications.
“That could be looked at as a fuck-up,” says one source of Scott’s solo set. This insider also points to the fact that Astroworld’s general-admission set up in a non-traditional venue and a countdown clock to Scott’s performance may have exacerbated the situation. “You have a big open space and these metal barriers that, when people run, you can’t climb over them. This was a young crowd, high fandom and a lot of intensity.
Such tragedies are rare but have been known to occur more often at open-field or GA shows. You could go back to Altamont in 1969, where 300,000 arrived at a race track outside of the Bay Area and one attendee was stabbed after the crowd turned violent. Acts like Radiohead and Sugarland have seen tragic stage collapses in recent years, as has Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival, during which five people died as a result of a severe thunderstorm.
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