Boardmasters to increase security measures for 2025 after injuries from crowd crush this summer

nme.com:

Boardmasters are bringing in enhanced security measures for next year’s festival after a crowd crush took place at this summer’s event.The “massive” crowd surge at the Newquay festival on August 9 “left a small number of attendees injured” and a DJ set was cancelled as a result.

The festival later confirmed that seven festivalgoers had to be taken to hospital and the council launched a formal investigation into what happened.It was described by police at the time as an “isolated incident”, and it was confirmed that “none of the injuries [were] considered serious”.A teenager later told Sky News that he was pushed to the floor by the surge – “There were people on top of me, and I was on top of other people,” he said.One woman who attended the festival with her daughters described the “carnage” she saw, saying: “There were kids everywhere.