
“You can see at lot of medics walking around too.” “But this basic layout looks really safe,” added his friend Chelsea Bohmer, gesturing at the Day N Vegas main stage with its divvied-up viewing areas and wide passages among the three stages. “It’s not all on him, but that video where the ambulance is driving into the crowd, it didn’t look good,” White said.

From the fans gingerly returning to the festival scene, to the artists onstage with a wary eye on moshing to a trio of police helicopters hovering near-constantly over the grounds, it was clear the stakes were high.ĭay N Vegas, from Coachella promoters Goldenvoice and AEG, came just a week after nine fans were killed and hundreds more injured after a crowd surge at the Houston festival from Scott and mega-promoter Live Nation. On the first day of the Las Vegas hip-hop and R&B festival featuring headliners Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone and Tyler, the Creator, the crowd-crush disaster at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival was at the back of everyone’s mind. “We’re gonna let security do what they do.”


He paused his set for about 30 seconds to let the fan catch their breath and make their way to open space. You all good over there?” he asked, pointing to a fan in some sort of discomfort near the front of the stage. Just a few minutes into his Friday afternoon set at the Day N Vegas festival, as a few thousand people gathered at the main stage, New York rapper Bas stood extra vigilant over his crowd.
