Olympic venue LiveCity Yaletown shut down after crowd rushes stage for Alexisonfire

I was lucky enough to be on the front left of the stage with my girlfriend, rather than the center. A lot of unfortunate people tonight. Way too many folks in there, way too many inebriated people, and that barricade couldn't have been built that well. Either way, pretty awful that a good deal of people had to get hurt.

5 Days in and I can see the downtown crowds are starting to get drunk and ugly. Not as happy-feely as last weekend. They are packing way too many people into these venues.

This is a bloody outrage. I am a professional producer with 20 years experience in Rock Concert productions and I have been fully trained in crowd control dynamics by EPP in the UK. What the hell is going on with the organisation. This was not a professional Mojo crowd control barrier, whoever advanced the production for this show should be hung out to dry. This is shocking and you guys are so lucky that someone was not killed. The H&S standards here are woefull. Waken up Vancouver you are embarrassing yourself.

I think everyone genuinely felt bad about the situation. I was surprised that the crowd dispersed so peacefully, things could have been way worse and there was no rioting or chaos on the street after, people just left.

I don't mean to point fingers but I can't understand how this happened. In my 25 years of going to rock shows, very large ones with crowds much larger than this show, I have never witnessed barricades coming down, bending or breaking like this.... they are there to suppress crowd surges.

I am so glad that no one was killed - could have been WAY worse.

I guess I assumed there were too many people in the crowd. Oops.

point is,as a fan, Alexisonfire is a hardcore band and should have never been playing at a free community event.
there was not enough strong security in front of the barriers like there are at other hardcore shows, as well as the barriers themselves were weak in comparison

From what I seen last night at the Matisyahu show the barriers they used have NO business at ANY concert unless its at some county fair in the middle of no where. the band and Crew acted quick and properly, I was kind of upset until I realized people were hurt quite bad. These kids just need to grow up.

It's as if this Olympics is cursed. Maybe karma is kicking our ass and we deserve it for allowing the misery to pile up: the DTES, Pickton, the cuts to education, health, arts and social services. Maybe we need to think about our priorities, putting people first. They're already calling it the Worst Olympics Ever.

As someone who was in the crowd (and someone who carried a girl with a fractured? leg out of the pit) all I can say is that this should not have happened.

It doesn't matter that Alexisonfire is a hardcore band or that it was a free community event or that there were people drinking or that maybe the barriers/security might not have been up code. I have been to so many shows with intoxicated crowds and "hardcore" bands where shit has not gotten out of hand like this. If I was to blame anyone, it would be the crowd but not because they were drinking; something has clearly changed in the whole mob mentality of being at a show since the last one I've been to.

What happened to the unspoken courtesy of concerts? If someone falls in the pit, you stop and help them back up; you don't plow through and knock over everyone in front of you ten seconds after the band takes the stage. You're supposed to have each other's back. It's about having fun and having a good time, something that can't be done if you're on the ground under a pile of people with your legs being fractured.

It wasn't fair to that girl I carried out of there tonight (while most people stood around watching instead of running to get help or clearing the way, I might add) and it wasn't fair to the rest of us who just wanted to go out and have a good time. No matter how many elbows I get to the back of the head or bruises I wake up with in the morning, it's always worth it because I'm seeing a band I love. This was just fucking dumb, ten seconds of intro music isn't fun and it isn't what we were there to see. Let's get our shit together guys, we're all there for the same reason.

Seroiusly, the people at the gig really needed to give the guys a break. I understand that people will have queued up to see them, but what about all the people that got hurt? are you going to risk people dying just to see a show? AOF did the right thing by stopping the show you can tell that its the last thing they wanted to do- playing at the olympics had to be a massive thing for them; hence why George is so apologetic.