AEG Responds to Viral Clips of Folks Storming Barricades of Portola Music Pageant
San Francisco’s debut Portola Music Pageant landed in a viral social media cycle over the weekend as a result of considerations over crowd management. Its guardian firm, AEG, has now responded.
The 2-day occasion, which took over Pier 80 within the Bay Space over the weekend, noticed the likes of Flume, Bob Moses, Kaytranada and plenty of extra taking to the stage all through the weekend. Outdoors of the performances themselves, a pair viral clips whereby festival-goers appeared to hop barricades and storm via damaged limitations by the lots of grabbed consideration on-line.
The breach occurred within the time previous Fred once more..’s set on opening day round 5PM, in response to Billboard. The incident instantly drew considerations on social media over the potential for overcrowding, trampling and different bodily damage.
Portola Music Pageant is a product of Goldenvoice, an AEG Presents firm. An AEG spokesperson has since responded.
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“There was a minimal, remoted challenge with a competition stage entrance yesterday,” the spokesperson stated, per Billboard. “This occurred inside the confines of the grounds and was rapidly addressed and corrected. There have been no reported accidents and the competition continued for one more six hours with out incident.”
San Francisco legislation enforcement didn’t report any accidents associated to the incident and organizers responded rapidly. Day two noticed heightened safety presence on the gates and the competition’s musical acts took the stage all through the rest of the weekend with out incident.