While rushing the stage during a concert or a festival is fairly commonplace and usually results in a fan either jumping back into the mosh or being escorted to the side of the crowd area by security, the potential for real danger is always there.
Case in point, a Your EDM staff member named Ben Jacobs recently attended the Counterpoint Music Festival in Georgia. Jacobs was waiting for a headlining appearance by house superstar Kygo when he caught some footage of a girl crashing the stage.
It all seemed innocent enough. The girl was just hanging out on the stage, enjoying the view and lapping up the attention, when Myles Shear, Kygo’s manager, decided to be a total killjoy by running out and removing the girl from the stage amid boos from the crowd.
A few moments later, we see why Shear was so eager to get the girl off the stage, and it had nothing to do with protecting his artist – the girl could easily have been injured or even killed by the stage pyrotechnics that went off mere seconds after Shear grabbed her.
“It’s important to make sure everyone is safe at all costs. As a manager the show needs to be the best it can be but must make sure everyone is enjoying themselves in a responsible manner,” Shear later told Your EDM.
Long story short: don’t rush festival stages, or even concert stages, unless a band or artist specifically invites you to. As readers can see in the footage below, this could easily have been a tragic story about a young girl who lost her life at a Georgia music festival.
