Travis Scott to refund all Astroworld attendees, cancels show at Day N Vegas
Travis Scott, who was set to perform at this weekend’s Day N Vegas Festival, has decided not to appear for the show following the Astroworld tragedy where eight people died. The Day N Vegas Festival was scheduled to take place on November 13 at Las Vegas Festival Grounds. At the same time, Scott has also revealed that he will provide full refunds for all attendees who bought tickets to Astroworld, sources have claimed.
Day N Vegas, just like Astroworld, is a general-admission festival. Fans visiting this festival are left to jockey for prime positions under normal circumstances. From 10.45 pm to 11.45 pm, Travis Scott was set to hit the main stage. Roddy Ricch, who had played ahead of Scott at the deadly Astroworld festival, has a main stage slot at Day N Vegas on November 12, where Kendrick Lamar is set to headline. Tyler the Creator will headline on Sunday, November 14, Variety reported.
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At least eight people died and several others injured when chaos broke out at Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, on Friday night, November 5. Video footage of the festival is being widely circulated on social media, showing a stampede of fans breaking through a fence. The videos also show people attending the festival dancing on ambulances. Some witnesses have claimed that the rapper stopped his show several times to urge security guards to help his fans.
A video that has surfaced on social media shows Travis Scott urging security guards to help a fan who collapsed during the Astroworld concert that killed eight people. The video shows Scott halting the concert in Houston, Texas, to ask the security for help after the fan seemed to be in trouble. "Somebody help him, somebody has passed out right here!" Scott is heard telling someone. "Don't touch him, don't touch him. Everybody just back up. Security, jump in real quick. Somebody jump in. Come on, come on!"
A number of witnesses, on the other hand, have also claimed that Scott did not do enough to help his wounded fans. Amid claims that Scott could have done more to help his fans, an old video of Billie Eilish helping a fan who became unwell at one of her concerts has resurfaced.
Talking about the tragic Astroworld concert, Houston fire chief Samuel Peña told reporters, "The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries. "People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic." A "mass casualty" event led to scores of people being rushed to hospitals, with as many as 11 people reportedly suffering cardiac arrests.