{"id":79633,"date":"2022-09-27T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/organizers-respond-to-viral-crowd-video-from-sf-music-fest\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:06:06","slug":"organizers-respond-to-viral-crowd-video-from-sf-music-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/organizers-respond-to-viral-crowd-video-from-sf-music-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers respond to viral crowd video from SF music fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco’s newest music festival, Portola, took place this weekend at Pier 80. The two days of electronic music were a rare offering amid the city’s more prominent rock-focused festivals, and attendees seemed thrilled to revel in the thumping bass of some of the world’s top DJs.<\/p>\n

Despite some incredible performances ranging from the Avalanches to the Chemical Brothers, viral video<\/a> of festivalgoers climbing the fences to enter a warehouse stage became the weekend’s biggest story.<\/p>\n

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Fred Again, a buzzy British producer whose recent Boiler Room set vaulted him into the international spotlight, was one of the weekend’s most anticipated acts. He was booked on the Warehouse Stage, a cavernous hangar with only one entrance, which required snaking through a maze of metal stanchions to enter. Charli XCX was the next act booked in the space, arguably the fest’s biggest star. As a result of a bottleneck outside the venue, attendees broke past security guards and vaulted over fencing, only to find themselves in a gigantic space that seemingly had plenty of room for more people.<\/p>\n

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Fans react to Jamie XX taking the stage at the Portola music festival, on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2022.<\/p>\n

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As the viral Twitter videos picked up steam, outlets like TMZ reported the incident with sensational headlines like “Portola Festival Draws Out-of-Control Crowds That Stormed Stage,” when in fact the attendees were hundreds of meters away from the actual stage within the warehouse venue. News reports compared the event to the tragedy at Houston’s Astroworld Festival, which resulted in 10 deaths.<\/p>\n

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Festival organizer Goldenvoice did not respond when asked for comment, but mid-day on Sunday, Goldenvoice’s parent company AEG issued a statement to Billboard regarding the incident.<\/p>\n