Fans are now more cautious of music festivals following the tragic events that left ten dead at last year's Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, especially with a string of shooting incidents as well.
The Portola Music Festival launched for the first time at Pier 80 in San Francisco, California, and saw a crowd control issue around 5 p.m., reports say.
A video of the incident was uploaded on social media. It showed people climbing over barricades, and very few security addressing the situation.
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The uploader captioned the video: "the entrances and exits to the warehouse stage were super dangerous and poorly planned. What happened?!"
Exaggeration
The video is a far cry from what happened at the Astroworld Music Festival. Despite TMZ's comparison between Astroworld Music Festival and Portola Music Festival, the situations are vastly different from each other.
TMZ's report called the Portola situation "mayhem," and noted that it had "shades of Astroworld," meanwhile, SFIST deemed the comparison "inappropriate."
According to the San Franciso-based news outlet, the people who were jumping over the barricades were festival attendees, not party-crashers. The crowd was rushing to enter the festival's Warehouse stage, where they were not permitted to enter.
A Twitter user also pointed this out, replying to the video uploaded on social media. "There was control and direction but the entitled bonehead crowd decided to act like spoiled little children and simply do what they wanted. This ain't on Security," they commented.
The individual who uploaded the video also commented on how the festival was "over sold."
"Yeah, and I think in general it was over sold. The fact they re-opened Saturday GA single-day tickets while this was happening really rubbed me the wrong way. I expect things to be a lot more organized for a $250 single-day ticket," they wrote.
What Happened?
According to reports, the crowd was already outside the GA entrance, waiting to be let in for about 30 minutes. The next set of performers includes English producer Frad Again and Charli XCX, which caused the festival attendees to take matters into their own hands.
The festival promoter Golden voice issued a statement that said: "There was a minimal, isolated issue with a festival stage entrance yesterday."
"This occurred within the confines of the grounds and was quickly addressed and corrected. There were no reported injuries and the festival continued for another six hours without incident."
SFIST noted that the venue had numerous entrances and exists, however, they were closed off with aluminum doors, which caused a bottleneck at the few entrances and exits accessible to the crowd.
"This was an error on the festival, not the fans. the attempts at "crowd control" actually [were] what created a huge bottleneck of people jammed together for 30min and not moving, which is why some decided to hop the fence. There's no reason to have fences there," a Twitter user pointed out.
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