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Crowdsurfing banned by MOJO (Dutch)

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Started by Unbeliever in Therapy? Live

Ok, here’s a message from the Lowlands festival organisation. Lowlands is a Dutch festival held in the last weekend of August. Mojo, Dutch concert organisation will no longer allow crowdsurfing on any of their concerts. Here’s the original message posted on 4-8-00 on http://www.lowlands.nl

OFFICIAL NOTICE: BAN ON CROWDSURFING (August 4)
With immediate effect, the management of MOJO Concerts has decided to put a ban on crowdsurfing at all of her concerts and festivals. The chance of crowdsurfers hurting themselves or others has risen to an unacceptable level. The first event where this ban will come into effect, is A Campingflight To Lowlands Paradise, to be held in Biddinghuizen, August 25-27, 2000.

Crowdsurfers are concert and festival visitors who are making their way to the stage over the heads of other audience members. This phenomenon brings about a lot of nuisance and annoyance with other visitors and in addition can lead to physical harm. Those who violate the ban, run the risk of being expelled from the concert or event.

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OFFICIAL NOTICE: BAN ON CROWDSURFING 2 (August 4)
MOJO Concerts are very much committed to the safety of visitors. By using among other things professional security and barriers, a specially developed fencing construction, MOJO Concerts leave no stone unturned to guarantee that safety. The ban on crowdsurfing is a continuation of this pursuit. Recently the safety at and around concerts and festivals once again garnered a lot of attention after the tragic events at the Danish Roskilde festival. MOJO Concerts don’t only make an appeal to visitors, but also urge artists to accept this precaution.

To Lowlands visitors who have already secured an entrance ticket and who can’t or won’t comply with this measure, MOJO Concerts offer the possibility to return said ticket to them. This offer lasts till August 23, 2000 at the latest. Nevertheless, MOJO Concerts are convinced that most visitors applaud the ban on crowdsurfing. The measure is being communicated through press releases, advertisements, editorials and notices at the festival site.

Posted on Fri, 4 August 2000 at 20:46

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#1

Unbeliever wrote:

Btw T? will play lowlands

Posted on Fri, 4 August 2000 at 20:47

#2

Ronald wrote:

I am happy with that decision, because I am a tall basterd and I always get those arseholes in my neck or on my nose! I hope it works!!!

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 10:07

#3

Unbeliever wrote:

I’m kinda neutral to this one. I think it’s just part of the deal, I don’t mind people crowdsurfing. In fact I did it a few times myself and it was fan-fucking-tastic!

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 10:59

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Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Great decision by Mojo. I hate crowdsurfers. I’m pretty tall myself also, and I was getting really tired and pissed off with all those idiots kicking me in the head. Let’s hope people will respect the new rule.

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 12:18

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hellbelly wrote:

It doesn’t matter how tall you are, I’m a shortass and still get kicked in the head. I used to not mind so much, you know, the whole live shit experience, but after a couple of concerts I just got so tired of it I tried to hide at the sides or at the back to avoid it and missed out on the actual stage antics. Good decision basically.

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 15:45

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messiah wrote:

moshpits should be banned. i dont mind surfing if it’s done properly.
but moshpits should be banned or they should have a cage in the middle where anyone who wants to mosh can go in and mosh as much as he wants. it pisses me that a few people can fuck it up for everyone, you know cheap shot people smaller than them , beating the shit out of each other for no reason. i feel sorry for someone who goes to a concert for the first time and has a bad experience because of these idiots and doesnt go again.
this isnt want live musuc is about. people who are there for the music and the positive energy shouldnt have to suffer and people who came just to beat each other up should be put in cages. i’m sick of that shit.

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 16:12

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Ronald wrote:

I don’t mind a crowdsurfer once in a while, but I’ve had so many concerts now that I was looking more behind me than to the stage! And that’s not my idea of going to a concert. I never did it myself because not only am I tall, I also weigh 92 kilos and I wouldn’t want to break the neck of some 16 year old who happens to stand in my wave..way i mean!

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 16:20

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Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

A crowdsurfer once in a while who knows how to do it properly might be ok, but nobody seems to know how to do it!! Nobody holds their feet up, and they behave like idiots.

Man, they piss me off. Again, good decision.

And then, stagediving… Every concert I go to there are a couple of idiots who decide to run on stage, take a big leap and jump FEET FIRST into the crowd… ARE THEY FUCKIN’ NUTS?!

I like jumping around at a gig, but there’s no reason to hurt other people who are enjoying the gig also. Some people seem to think that it’s ‘cool’ to beat up everyone around them. Well, not me.

Posted on Sat, 5 August 2000 at 19:56

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Innocent X wrote:

I once broke my thumb due to those bastards and they once kicked my contact lens almost through my eye … so let’s say I agree with the majority over here …

Cheers,
X.

Posted on Mon, 7 August 2000 at 09:46

#10

Nausea wrote:

Good decision but I don’t know if banning crowd surfing will actually make it any better.. I mean who’s gonna respect it? Maybe if the security in the front throws the ones who surf out of the place. I think crowd surfing only should be used if someone faints or panics in the crowd..

Posted on Mon, 7 August 2000 at 15:36

#11

Alan wrote:

I doubt it will stop - crowdsurfing has been banned in Ireland
for a few years but everyone still does it. Some people get kicked
out if they injure other fans. I was at the front for Therapy? at
Witnness two days ago and my neck is now killing me. I also spent
more time looking behind me than at the stage. But, security jumping
in over the front row to catch crowdsurfers isn’t cool either, those
assholes just piss everyone off and make things worse.

Posted on Tue, 8 August 2000 at 12:43

#12

johnnyboy wrote:

crowdsurfing sucks

Posted on Tue, 8 August 2000 at 14:16

#13

Marc wrote:

I’ve never crowdsurfed before, but I can see the point when you’re really tired and just HAVE to get out of the crowd. That seems reasonable to me. What will MOJO do about that? It seems unreasonable to ban people in that case, I think.

Oh, and I’m afraid I’m one of those horrible people who just love a good moshpit, but I always look out for people at the sides, and I take care not to do any ‘real’ damage. I’m not completely mindless…

Posted on Tue, 8 August 2000 at 19:50

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messiah wrote:

maybe there should be a rule where you can surf if your under 16. that’ll be ok. i used to surf when i was sixteen and no big deal i was light so i would sail from one end to the other. i dont do it now because people might get hurt.
and moshpits just suck. i still stick with my cage proposal.

Posted on Tue, 8 August 2000 at 21:30

#15

johnnyboy wrote:

ahh messiah so youre a fatass
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted on Wed, 9 August 2000 at 00:44

#16

Marc wrote:

If it’s a nice padde cage, okay :-)

Posted on Wed, 9 August 2000 at 04:14

#17

Marc wrote:

Padded, even

Posted on Wed, 9 August 2000 at 04:14

#18

johnnyboy wrote:

why marky mark
are you so crazy

Posted on Wed, 9 August 2000 at 15:26

#19

messiah wrote:

there are a lot of young kids in the audience. just dont surf on them.

Posted on Wed, 9 August 2000 at 22:18

#20

messiah wrote:

and yes an iron cage for the tough! i want to see them! you know they’re tough and big cause they cheap shot on the weak! how about on each other? an iron cage would be perfect for the likes of you!
but you know no one’s tougher than a nine mm bullet in the face.

Posted on Wed, 9 August 2000 at 23:41

#21

hellbelly wrote:

Good idea about the cage. But do you really think that a 9mm is the right thing to take to a concert to stop moshers? I worry.

Posted on Thu, 10 August 2000 at 12:54

#22

Marc wrote:

‘Tough’ is not a good word to describe me. Not at all :)

‘Crazy’ comes a bit closer, but… Nah…

Posted on Thu, 10 August 2000 at 13:30

#23

Marc wrote:

Oh, and if you think moshpits suck, what about violent dancers? They DO get on my nerves.

Posted on Thu, 10 August 2000 at 13:31

#24

messiah wrote:

the bullet remark is about the futility of violence. for example in the wake of the trench coat mafia you see that both sides lose in the end.
that’s what i meant.

Posted on Thu, 10 August 2000 at 17:55

#25

Marc wrote:

From a ban on crowdsurfing to the futility of violence, wow!

Posted on Thu, 10 August 2000 at 18:25

#26

manofmisery wrote:

Those crowdsurfers aint so bad! (HEY DON’T F* WITH THE CROWDSURFERS)
It are those stagedifers that fuck things up

Posted on Mon, 14 August 2000 at 09:07

#27

messiah wrote:

duh. mosh pits are all about peace and love eh? laugh out loud.

Posted on Mon, 14 August 2000 at 14:30

#28

johnnyboy wrote:

moshpits are not about fighting
theyre about trying to spit on your idols

Posted on Wed, 16 August 2000 at 09:37

#29

White Psycho wrote:

I was at a Terrorvision gig a while ago, and everyone who went crowd surfing got bollocked by one of the blokes. The bloke seemed really pissed off!

Posted on Sun, 20 August 2000 at 15:56

#30

Dermot wrote:

Don’t KoRn already have a cage for moshers? I dont mind people crowd surfing (even though ive had an ear ring ripped out before at a gig), but if someone kicks me in the head I make sure to give them a good fucking dig on the way past. I remember this fat ginger guy with an afro at the T? gig in the empire was being such a dick the people he surfed over pulled him down and kicked his ass! :)

Posted on Sun, 20 August 2000 at 19:12

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