With 10 people dead — including a nine-year-old boy — and over 25 serious injuries, the crowd crush during Travis Scott’s set at Nov. 5’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas stands as one of the worst concert tragedies in history. The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now takes an in-depth first look at the story.
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Rolling Stone‘s Ethan Millman reports from Houston, and shares audio of a dramatic on-the-scene interview with a concert-goer who survived the crush.
To hear the entire episode, press play above, or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Rolling Stone‘s Ethan Millman reports from Houston, and shares audio of a dramatic on-the-scene interview with a concert-goer who survived the crush.
- 11/18/2021
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
In the wake of the fatal crowd surge at Travis Scott's Astroworld festival on Nov. 5, people across social media are using the incident to raise awareness about crowd safety during live performances. On Friday night, Scott paused his performance after he spotted an ambulance in the 50,000-person audience around 9:30 p.m., when the Houston Fire Department reported a "mass casualty incident." At the time, 25 people were being transported to the hospital, but Scott continued his set until 10:15 p.m., playing for nearly half an hour while the danger in the crowd persisted.
Fans across social media have openly expressed their outrage at the venue and at Scott for performing under such critical circumstances, and the singer is currently being sued by multiple people who suffered lasting injuries from the crowd surge. A day after the festival tragedy, Scott posted an apology on Twitter, writing, "I am absolutely devastated...
Fans across social media have openly expressed their outrage at the venue and at Scott for performing under such critical circumstances, and the singer is currently being sued by multiple people who suffered lasting injuries from the crowd surge. A day after the festival tragedy, Scott posted an apology on Twitter, writing, "I am absolutely devastated...
- 11/13/2021
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
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