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Nov82021 by Joanne Clark, Tanya De, Kloudia Sakowski, Zuri Soto, Lucy TudorNo Comments

Travis Scott’s Astroworld ignites discussion about festival safety

Image by Iñaki Espejo-Saavedra via Flickr Rapper Travis Scott is being sued after a crowd surge occurred on the first day of the third Astroworld Festival on Friday 5 November, which killed eight people and left several hundred injured in a stampede after barricades collapsed. The sold-out concert was attended by 50,000 people at NRG Park in Houston, Texas on Friday. Video footage circulated on social media also showed groups of people breaking down barricades to get into the event, as they did not possess a ticket. Due to previous difficulties with crowd control at past Astroworld festivals, more private security and police officers were hired in an effort to curb potentially dangerous activities. https://twitter.com/XXL/status/1456724589560598537 Travis Scott has a pri

Hyper Japan Christmas–what you should not miss this winter

Breaking News, Culture, Entertainment, International

The UK’s biggest Japanese culture event--Hyper Japan Christmas--just took place in Tobacco Dock last Friday, attracting thousands of Japanese culture lovers. Hyper Japan is a festival providing different Japanese workshops as well as live shows such as Japanese band music, the ‘cosplay’ competition, appealing to all Japanese culture lovers in UK. The event has been held in London every year since 2010. This year’s festival was scheduled over three days (24-26 November 2017). The price of tickets differed on each of the three days, and all the information related to the festival was published on Hyper Japan’s website more than half a month before it started. This year’s site had two floors and provided more activities for visitors. Compared with previous years, there were m

Country music grabs a new generation at C2C festival

Culture, Music

The abundance of youthful faces at the Country to Country festival shows that the future of country music could well lie with its audience. Reporter Steff Humm Conjure up an image of a stereotypical country music fan and you probably don’t think of English twenty-somethings, tweens and children gleefully crowding round a stage to bop along to songs of whiskey and heartbreak. The annual Country to Country (C2C) music festival, which attracted 50,000 people to the O2 arena, proves that the idea that country music belongs to middle aged, Stetson-wearers doused in rhinestones is outdated. Instead, the genre has evolved to encompass all age groups, from those that remember the days of Hank Williams to the generation too young to watch Miley Cyrus videos. Music manager Peter Christoph