The Dizzie Rascal/ Libertines crush

[kibble]

Was anyone involved in it? It was terrible where I was with people fainting all around me. Something needs to change for next year when leaving bands!

[Hota]

i dont believe there was a crush for libs, by the end i got from the middle to touching the front barrier and i hardly tried, so happy though because it meant i was at the front for arcade fire

[Arcane2]

The Paramore/Blink 182 one was terrible as well, took bloody ages to leave.

Edited August 31, 2010 by Arcane2

[Dan R]

There was an awful crush in the libs at leeds

At one point early in the set, a load of people fell over and got trapped, as there was no room to pull people up and more just kept on fall on top of them

There was people on the bottom for about 10 mins, may not sound like long but when people were struggling to breathe for being crushed, must've been pretty terrifying

Not much organisers can do though, by the sounds of it the crowd wasn't especially huge, it was just unlucky

[Petrucci is Jesus]

My mate was at the front for Paramore, he said there were people crying from pain and jumping over the front barrier constantly. It was okay for me because I was a lot further back.

[Nathan113]

i dont believe there was a crush for libs, by the end i got from the middle to touching the front barrier and i hardly tried, so happy though because it meant i was at the front for arcade fire

[Electricityscape]

It was abd, but wasn't "i'm going to die" crush. We got out pretty easily and we were 3/4 rows from the front.

[Budweiser]

Should of been at Reading in 08 for Qotsa/Rage. Crazy crushes at the front.

[Hota]

Try being relentlessly crushed for their entire set then you might believe it.

[SamSheppard]

wasent this why libs left the stage after about 3 songs at leeds? or was that just a stunt?

[Mamba]

It was pretty bad at Reading getting out between Paramore and Blink, and then they made an announcement for everyone to take 5 steps back. Not a lot of help for those of us near the D barrier as we all got crushed against that!

[Vieuphoria]

The Dizzee/Libs one was horrific. Girlfriend was having a panic attack, and people were just pushing and acting like assholes. Was alright once we got out but jesus it was hard to get through.

[cheeseisamazing]

Blink crush was bad at first but then litend up. lot of the poeple getting crushed were groups of girls, i'm not being sexists but its good advice if your a girl to have a lad with you...

i think they might want to consider moving the disabled seating and possible loos further back , getting between bands was a bitch on the left side beacuse you couldn't turn left for a while after eventually getting out the golden circle due to the disabled platform and then people were trying to get in from the left due to the toilets.

[ap3311]

Pendulum was probably the worst, especially during Salt In The Wounds and Slam. It did calm down a lot after those though. Blink must have been pretty bad if they actually asked people to step back for it though, I was probably about 20 rows back or so and thought it was fine though the crush at Rage Factor was far worse than anything I experience at Reading.

[VCK]

This is why I never go right near the front at Leeds. I hear loads of horror stories about the crushes and given the size of the crowd it's just not worth the risk IMO.

[Dirty Boots]

Why would you want to be at the front? It's uncomfortable, smelly and the sound quality is shit.

[rexclark]

This is why I never go right near the front at Leeds. I hear loads of horror stories about the crushes and given the size of the crowd it's just not worth the risk IMO.

[VCK]

Why would you want to be at the front? It's uncomfortable, smelly and the sound quality is shit.

[rockinthecasbah]

There were loads of people being lifted out onto the food vans to the left of the stage between Dizzee and The Libertines. Coped alright with the crush myself, as I was with some pretty big guys, and I'm pretty tall, but could see how people could have been very uncomfortable. It's something that doesn't really seem to happen nearly as much at other festivals, so it's something that could probably do with being looked at.

[kibble]

There were loads of people being lifted out onto the food vans to the left of the stage between Dizzee and The Libertines. Coped alright with the crush myself, as I was with some pretty big guys, and I'm pretty tall, but could see how people could have been very uncomfortable. It's something that doesn't really seem to happen nearly as much at other festivals, so it's something that could probably do with being looked at.

[eoJ]

I got to the front row just as Dizzee went off stage. He then came back on to play Bonkers. I'd been in the second row for hours and hours, waiting for the libertines. After about a minute of Bonkers, I couldn't take the pain, and got lifted out. I got a cut on my thigh from just standing there, along with a lot of bruising. I was there on Sunday night though, from roughly Cypress Hill onwards, and, while that was a bit painful, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as Dizzee/Libertines.

[Manno]

There was an awful crush in the libs at leeds

At one point early in the set, a load of people fell over and got trapped, as there was no room to pull people up and more just kept on fall on top of them

There was people on the bottom for about 10 mins, may not sound like long but when people were struggling to breathe for being crushed, must've been pretty terrifying

Not much organisers can do though, by the sounds of it the crowd wasn't especially huge, it was just unlucky

[choadus]

Solutions need to be taken from European festivals such as Southside or Lowlands. Out there, you can wander down to a headlining band 5 minutes before they go on and still get pretty much to the front, but there's no stupid crushes, just decent dancing potential.

Pendulum this year was pretty crushed but I blame the god awful enter Shikari set before. My worst was arctic monkeys at Glasto 07, really did think i was going to die there. scary scary times!

Edited September 1, 2010 by choadus

[jonwl89]

Libs this year was quite bad from where I was but nothing has ever compared with the prodigy last year for me, f**king hell. I was about 20 rows out for the start when they came on and I have never felt anything like that, spent 20 minutes fighting for air and being elbowed in the throat and chest before finally deciding to get out, had to physically claw my way up because there was no way anyone was able to lift you because everyone was so packed.

Finally managed to pull my self up and start crowdsurfing to the front before being half dropped and ending up upside down for a good 5 minutes, this was nowhere near as much fun as it sounds, finally one of the security spotted my leg sticking out just above the crowd and managed to pull me out, bloodied nose, swollen face and all. it was f**king horrific.

[russell90]

I think if the exit of the D was at the back and not heading towards the toilets it would have helped a lot. The fact that the people leaving the D headed straight into the people heading towards the toilets didn't help at all.