Worst crush at Reading/Leeds?

[scmck]

Worst was definitely The Black Keys at Leeds last year. Like someone else said it wasn't that there were any pits just way too many folk. Crowd collapsed around us a few times including me and my mate ending up at the bottom of one. That was scary!

We decided to watch The Foo Fighters from further back and it took us ages to get out from the front because so many people were trying to get in as well.

[Com Truise]

Too many people around my age (17) are more concerned with getting as close as possible than enjoying the band. You get people pushing past you to get closer when there clearly isn't any room as it is, which also causes horrendous crushes, I could hardly breathe at Kasabian and Foos last year, surrounded by trains of people trying to get closer to the barrier

[Matt42]

Worst was definitely The Black Keys at Leeds last year. Like someone else said it wasn't that there were any pits just way too many folk. Crowd collapsed around us a few times including me and my mate ending up at the bottom of one. That was scary!

We decided to watch The Foo Fighters from further back and it took us ages to get out from the front because so many people were trying to get in as well.

[Bisque]

The worst ever crush since 2005 was...

PENDULUM 2008

[scmck]

It was horrible, like honestly people couldn't stop pushing! Crowd collapsed every few minutes, had to get out of there!

[kaosmark2]

I think the people on this forum have more gig experience than a lot of those who go to Reading and Leeds, for some of them it's their first ever experience of live music, or at least they're not seasoned so they don't have much etiquette when watching bands.

[thetime]

The crushes at glastonbury in the 90s were by far the worst crushes ive been in. This was before the big fence went up and there was massive overcrowding due to many thousands gettibg in for free.

[Jaybles]

System of a Down 2003!!

That was one hell of a crowd. didn't help that we were in a drought and dust was swirling around the arena. I have been in the crowd at alot of the sets people have listed in this thread, but nothing crushed me more than System in 2003...

Loved it though!! apart from nearly suffocating underneath the crowd a few times

[Areophobia]

Excellent vid Jaybles! I honestly think SOAD this year will be like The Prodigy or Rage - even if the crowd are not all there to see SOAD like those, there will be loads there to see Green Day, and it will be wild.

[DarthSaul]

Not Reading but I saw bombay bicycle club at koko last december, and was at the barrier. The crushes were pretty bad, but then getting out up two tiny staircases was awful! A guy threw up over the back of a few people and was completely gridlocked.

[Asdaprice]

The worst ever crush since 2005 was...

PENDULUM 2008

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Excellent vid Jaybles! I honestly think SOAD this year will be like The Prodigy or Rage - even if the crowd are not all there to see SOAD like those, there will be loads there to see Green Day, and it will be wild.

[kev1664]

The crowd will be like The Prodigy in the sense there will be lots of people trying to get away.....afterward because they have all found a time machine and went back in time to get that hour and a half back that the arctic monkeys wasted of their lives.

[Areophobia]

The crowd will be like The Prodigy in the sense there will be lots of people trying to get away.

[mrtourette]

Not Reading but I saw bombay bicycle club at koko last december, and was at the barrier. The crushes were pretty bad, but then getting out up two tiny staircases was awful! A guy threw up over the back of a few people and was completely gridlocked.

[thetime]

Their crowd at the main stage last year was bizarrely hectic, with people getting crushed and falling over as the crowd swayed. I didn't have them down as the sort of band who would create that sort of mayhem.

[mrtourette]

Good point well made.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Corrected for you...

[kev1664]

I reckon SOAD will get the biggest crowd of the weekend, with possible exceptions of Biffy Clyro and Chase & Status.

[Bisque]

I reckon SOAD will get the biggest crowd of the weekend, with possible exceptions of Biffy Clyro and Chase & Status.

[Andre91]

Chase & Status will get the biggest crowd I reckon, I'd be willing to put a small amount of money on it.

[Andy0808 v3.0]

TDCC in 2010 was probably the worst crush i've been in at Reading. I was in the NME tent all of friday early afternoon waiting for them (what was i thinking) and i remember it just got gradually busier throughout the day. People were falling over before they even came on, by about 4 songs I was fed up of having to try and keep my balance and keep picking up the girl in front of me who nearly died about three times in 2 songs i had to move back.

Then again Muse in 2011 was a nightmare.

[Areophobia]

I think people are forgetting that SOAD are on before Green Day, who, even if SOAD don't have a massive crowd, there will be one there waiting for Green Day.

[Areophobia]

If people have access to a time machine and really use it to do that, I weep for mankind.

In the sense that the crowd will be lucky to be half the size of the SOAD video posted earlier, and will be lucky to get anywhere near the size of The Prodigy.

[kev1664]

Nah, Eminem