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TIMEOUT 72 Looks Exceptionally Good From These Behind The Scenes Photos

December 27, 2017

Check them stages though! Tick-tock. Tick-tock. The countdown has turned from months to weeks to days to now, finally, just a few hours! TIMEOUT 72 is all set for its big debut in the festival circuit. Takin...

8 Times Festival Security Guards Raved With Festival Goers!

Sshiva Tejas M

September 7, 2016

FS Features, International

The people with the hardest jobs at a music festival? The festival security guards. And there's nothing more satisfying than seeing them let their hair down for once! At a music festival, everyone is in the...

People Got Extorted By Security Guards At Moonrise Festival

Brij Dalvi

August 9, 2016

FS News, International

Extortion allegedly reared its ugly head at Moonrise Festival, when attendees took to Facebook to post about the antics of security guards there. Via Magnetic Magazine, the closed Moonrise Festival Facebook ...

A Guy Objected Against An Intrusive Security Check At EDC And Had The Last Laugh

Brij Dalvi

July 4, 2016

FS News, International

Security checks at music festivals can be really stringent at times, but apparently at EDC, they were just plain inappropriate. This is where a Redditor called Baelnoren (real name: Ethan Genz) comes in. He ...

Hippie Sabotage Gets Into Ugly Spat With Security At A Festival

Brij Dalvi

June 22, 2016

FS News, International

Hippie Sabotage did justice to the latter part of their name when they attacked security guards and the sound guy, and vandalised some festival property at Oregon's What The Festival. The duo was relentless ...

This Guy’s Ingenious Plan Helped Him Sneak Backstage And Chill With Peking Duk

Anupama Khedkar

December 3, 2015

FS News

How far would you go to meet your favourite artist? As of today, David Spargo is being called a legend. Why, you ask? Well this Peking Duk fan devised an ingenious plan to see his favourite band at an unname...

DJ Evian Christ Was ‘Trapped In A Cage’ At Leeds Festival

Meher Manda

August 31, 2015

FS News

Despite all the music that went down at Reading and Leeds, one incident led to quite the furor. It was when DJ Evian Christ was kept locked in by the Leeds security personnel. The DJ, who's most well known t...

Travis Scott Was Arrested At Lollapalooza For Causing A Riot

Anupama Khedkar

August 3, 2015

FS News

The rapper was arrested for disorderly conduct after telling the crowd to jump barricades and ignore security. Travis Scott, who was supposed to perform at Lollapalooza on Saturday, never quite completed the...

Facial Recognition Tech At Music Festivals Is Now A Thing

Anupama Khedkar

June 16, 2015

FS News

Security at the cost of losing your privacy? The police department at Leicestershire just upped their security and scanned each and every person's face at Download Music Festival's 2015 edition. Apparently,...

Here’s How You Stay Out Of Trouble At A Festival

Meher Manda

April 27, 2015

FS Features

It’s the perfect time to unwind, the festival season. And well, everyone wants to let their hair loose. But a little care can take you a long way (away from the prison, we mean). No, not everything crazy you...

Electric Zoo Festival Plans To Beef Up Security!

Prem Gupta

April 21, 2014

FS News, International

Following 2 drug-induced casualties in last year’s edition the Festival takes steps to make the event incident – free. In an extremely positive move made by organizers Made Event, The Electric Zoo Fest...

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