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I’ve been to a couple music festivals this year and I experienced the crowd at one of the main stages compressing. One thing that’s not talked about as much is

I’ve been to a couple music festivals this year and I experienced the crowd at one of the main stages compressing. One thing that’s not talked about as much is the heat caused by surges. If you’re shorter, I could easily see getting cooked alive compressed by bodies unable to gasp for fresh air. I’m much taller than most which helps with getting air but I was shocked to experience how hard it was to get out of the crowd, you essentially have to shove your way to the back. People will yell at you but you have to just think about yourself to get out of a surge.

Symbiote 4y ago
Where? Music festivals in Europe (at least 5 countries in familiar with) build barricades to prevent surges at festivals. This shows there's a barricade part way back from the main stage at Roskilde Festival in Denmark: https://www.etnow.com/news/2016/3/mojo-barriers-secures-three-year-deal-with-roskilde-festival https://www.etnow.com/news/2016/3/mojo-barriers-secures-thre...
- willio58 4y ago
  Outside lands in SF. The rap shows always get the craziest and I will say after reading more about crowd crushing and crowd collapses I’ll be staying further back from now on. Truly one of those situations where I was thinking “huh, interesting I chose to put myself in this situation after hearing about astroworld”. I think I saw barricades like that at Coachella, definitely a good way to limit this.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  To be precise, these are fences which are too big to push over by oneself, but will move when pushed on by hundreds of people. That relieves any crowd pressure, and the movement of the baraccade is a signal to organisers that they have screwed up and need to prevent more people entering that area.