Pearl Jam discussed never playing again after Roskilde festival tragedy

nme.com:

Words + Music, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder touched on the tragedy that marred the band’s set at 2000’s Roskilde festival, and how it almost spelt the end of their performing career.Echoing the recent Astroworld tragedy (though it should be noted that Vedder’s audiobook, I Am Mine, predates the incident by several months), nine people were killed in a stampede that occurred during Pearl Jam’s performance at the Danish festival.

Though the band made their live return just two months later, they opted not to play another festival until Reading and Leeds in 2006.Addressing the band’s response to the 2000 tragedy, Vedder said in I Am Mine (as transcribed by Louder): “There was at least one person in the band, I remember, that thought maybe.