safety

Reading & Leeds, festivals that have featured headliners such as Nirvana, My Chemical Romance and Black Sabbath might be upsetting fans a bit this year. The world’s oldest popular music festival has unveiled its new crowd control barriers and not everyone is happy. Read More: Matty Healy says the 1975 are punk because he’d “go to […]

[Pictured L-R: Enter Shikari, Safe Gigs For Women logo; photos by: Jennifer McCord, sgfw.org.uk]  2017 will forever be known as the year that an unprecedented number of victims of sexual misconduct came forward and revealed the truly horrific nature of their respective ordeals. It began in the entertainment industry in Hollywood and slowly bled into the music […]

[Photo by: Attitude Is Everything]  Imagine not being able to go and see your favorite band because there wasn’t a toilet at the venue you could use. Imagine not feeling confident enough to attend a festival because you were worried about not being able to get around the site easily, or that you wouldn’t be […]

[Photo by: swmrs/Instagram] We already knew SWMRS were a cool band, and their newest project proves that to be the case. The band have released a zine that they’ll be giving away at the rest of their shows about how to maintain safety at the concert. “Pro tip: Abusers of all kinds—you should leave now or you […]

[Photo by: Joe Banker]  Even people who don’t listen to hardcore and metal know what happens at those kinds of shows. Moshing, stage diving, head walking: These are staples of the heavy rock genres’ live performances. Hardcore, especially, has a reputation for being physically taxing. Riots have even been known to break out at such […]

In his storied career, MEHDI RABII has been the director of security for bands such as Twenty One Pilots, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Paramore and many others. In light of the savage attack on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas earlier this month, we asked him to give our readers advice on […]

After a reported lone gunman opened fire on a Las Vegas music festival crowd Sunday night, Oct. 1, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500, concert and festival safety is again a topic of major concern for music fans, performers and event organizers. What can be done to protect live music attendees […]

I’ve been thinking about how to start this piece all day, but sometimes words feel so futile. Stephen Paddock was a terrorist and a coward, an angry white man who opened fire with an automatic assault weapon on people attending a country music festival. The world can be a sick place without reason. Nothing I […]

[Photo credit: Mashable/Shonin Inc] We live in a crazy world that is often unpredictable. Shonin Inc have created a clip-on camera to help you stay safe at your next march, protest, social activation or event that acts like your own personal security camera. Check out this “watchdog” camera below! Read more: Hundreds of Juggalos show […]

A creepy, acoustic cover of Guns N’ Roses classic “Sweet Child O’ Mine” has been used in one of the most disturbing anti-speeding ads ever made. To discourage people from speeding, North Ireland’s DOE Road Safety created the commercial, where a class of kids are killed by a speeding car with a driver who has […]

A number of concert-related incidents, some of which ended in tragedy, have recently been making headlines throughout the music community. Stage diving, in one form or another, has been the primary culprit in a recent string of injuries (varying from minor to fatal) and in some cases lawsuits have occurred. The act itself is inherently […]