In the context of Travis Scott’s previous concerts, the level of chaos at Houston’s Astroworld Festival doesn’t sound unimaginable
Travis Scott Photo: Erika Goldring/WireImage In the three days since Houston’s Astroworld Festival, attendees who made it out have painted a harrowing picture of the atmosphere inside: hundreds of ticket holders sustaining injuries in a mosh pit raging out of control; the pressure of the crowd crushing concertgoers into one another, leaving many choking and gasping for breath; people screaming as the surge pulled them off their feet, trapped under the masses churning toward the stage.
Yet another witness, who spoke to the New York Times, recalled being forced close enough to the artist to lock eyes with him. “We were trying to scream at [Scott] and get his attention,” 18-year-old Afnan Hasan said, explaining that he and his friends had tried to pull fallen attendees off the ground so that they wouldn’t get trampled. “We were like, ‘People are passing out here. We have, like, piles of people.’ He could not hear us. It was too loud.
In a statement posted to Twitter on Saturday, Scott said the event left him “absolutely devastated,” while his partner, Kylie Jenner, insisted that Scott wasn’t “aware of any fatalities until the news came out after the show and in no world would have continued filming or performing” if he had been. It seems fair to assume that’s true.
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