Shit-storm erupts at Electric Daisy Carnival

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Last month ITM wrote excitedly about the arrival of US festival Electric Daisy Carnival, the Los Angeles weekender which boasted a stellar dance lineup with the likes of Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, Kaskade and Laidback Luke squished alongside pop-heavies like Lil Jon and Will.I.Am. The festival returned for its 14th year over the weekend, pulling in over 185,000 people to its two days of music. And if that figure sounds like a lot, well, that’s because it is.

Indeed, overcrowding was such a concern at the festival that the normally PLUR-heavy event saw things turn ugly, with more than 200 people reported injured from the festival and a further 100 of those being admitted to hospital with various injuries, SoundSpike reports. What’s more, the same news report claims that the festival saw 63 arrests by local police.

Things get even grimmer thanks to some amateur footage posted on The Huffington Post which you can check out below. In the video clip it’s clear to see that overcrowding was an issue at the EDC festival, with a score of punters trying to squeeze through a passage causing a jam and subsequent crushing spill. As the video progresses, a horde of fence jumpers crash the VIP area to be met with some forceful contact from security. It’s like the running of the bulls but with buttloads of candy ravers.

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Winslow

Winslow said on the 30th Jun, 2010

OK hopefully what I say will clear some stuff up -

Im from LA, and went to EDC this year and I also went 2 years ago, and have been to many other insomniac events. First of all, insomniac-is-great, they throw some great events, always have great production, maybe sometimes they over-sell tickets, but oh well, don't all promoters? And above all else, not that long ago, they were only people bringing in dance music into LA, or atleast bringing the big European DJs into great festivals. The last 2-3 years has seen a HUGE boost in the LA rave scene, and therefore the fire department has been much more picky about crowd control over the last couple years (as evidenced by the fact that the event had to end 2 hours earlier than usual this year). Really though, I would say insomniac handled the situation well at EDC this year, turned off the music, told peeps to stop, the problem with Hard Summer (i was there too) last year Will666 was the venue and HARD wayyy oversold tickets to that. Maybe the LA crowd is much more willing to jump fences than an aussie crowd, but I would still way prefer the atmosphere at EDC/any other dance music event in LA than the atmosphere you find at Stereosonic/Creamsfields aus/big day out etc. I always meet more people at LA raves and people seem much more excited about the actual event and being there, EDC is probably not the best to judge it by anymore because now its much more mainstream, but 2-3 years ago the LA raves were always just full of the most "loving" people ever (due to more factors than just the music of course).

and for discotheque, the area had nothing to do with it, on the USC campus (where EDC is) you will be perfectly fine, sure a 5 min walk may lead you into a place you wouldn't want to be in, but that event could have been held anywhere in SoCal and I don't think the fence jumpers would still have shown up.