"And having said that, now, we'll just have to come." "What I want to say is that we'll be there," band member Pete Townshend told WCPO-TV. The concert was first announced in December 2019. I think we're all really excited to put this final chapter on just an amazing story." So, as a city, we will heal together," says Hutchins. "Spring forward 43 years and here we are - Pete (Townshend) and Roger (Daltrey) are coming to town (with) their band manager, Bill Curbishley, who are all looking for healing as well. Hutchins says the tragedy shouldn't be the last chapter. Guitarist Pete Townshend has said he regrets the decision to continue the tour in 1979. The band didn't learn of the deaths until after the concert. "We have a story to tell that started off very tragically, but we refuse to allow the last chapter to be the tragedy," he says.
He helped bring The Who back to Cincinnati. John Hutchins was at the concert, and is part of a group that created a memorial scholarship honoring those who died. The city outlawed festival seating within a month of the incident. 3, 1979, some two dozen people outside were injured and 11 died in a chaotic crush to get through the doors. While The Who performed inside Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum on Dec. “Safety has no profit,” Still said, “so it tends to be the last thing in the budget.Rock band The Who returns to Cincinnati Sunday for the first time, more than 40 years after a tragic incident left 11 people dead. Instead, they more often point at the event’s organizers for failing to provide a safe environment. Professionals don’t use the words “stampede” or “panic” to describe such scenarios because that can put the blame for the deaths on the people in the crowd. Why aren’t people calling this a stampede? That could be a crowd surge, structural collapse, fire or something else.Īllen said he has personally stopped about 25 performances by the likes of Oasis, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Eminem. He recommends that events have trained crowd spotters with noise-cancelling headsets who are in direct communication with someone in close proximity to the performer who’s willing to temporarily stop the event if there’s a life-threatening situation. “As soon as you add people into the mix, there will always be a risk,” he said of crowds. Steve Allen of Crowd Safety, a U.K.-based consultancy engaged in major events around the world, said it’s always important to monitor the crowd, but especially so now that events are ramping up in size following the the pandemic lockdown. Still also cited poor crowd-management systems, where event organizers don’t have strong procedures in place to report red flags or warnings, among the reasons deadly surges happen. Sometimes they’re caused by a crowd moving toward something, such as a performer on the stage, before they hit a barrier. Surges don’t always happen because people are running away from something.
Or, in an example that Still said is much more common in the United States than other countries, someone yells, “He has a gun!” The crowd’s density may be the most important factor in a deadly surge, but it usually needs a catalyst to get everyone rushing in the same direction.Ī sudden downpour of rain or hail could send everyone running for cover, as was the case when 93 soccer fans in Nepal were killed while surging toward locked stadium exits in 1988. That can also allow for pathways for security officers or for emergency exits. Still pointed to how some will set up pens around stages in order to break large crowds into smaller groups. Some venues will take precautions when they know a particularly high-energy crowd is coming to an event. That includes having enough space for everyone and large enough gaps for people to move about. Keith Still, a visiting professor of crowd science at the University of Suffolk in England who has testified as an expert witness in court cases involving crowds.įirst is the design of the event, including making sure that the density of the crowd doesn’t exceed guidelines set by the National Fire Protection Association and others. “My research covers over 100 years of disasters, and invariably they all come down to very similar characteristics,” said G.
“They were aware that people were dying and they were helpless to save themselves.” What causes such events? “Survivors described being gradually compressed, unable to move, their heads ‘locked between arms and shoulders … faces gasping in panic,’” the report said. Some of them packed into a tunnel and were getting pressed so hard into perimeter fencing that their faces got distorted by the mesh, the inquiry found. The deaths occurred as more than 50,000 fans streamed into the stadium for a soccer match on a warm, sunny day.
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