Disclosure have had to cancel their show at London’s Boiler Room this weekend due to a huge turnout.
British electronic duo, comprising brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, were due to perform a surprise set during the London leg of the Boiler Room world tour on Sunday (August 25).
Their performance, which was due to take place at the Lee Valley Showground in Waltham Cross, was announced just three days beforehand and tickets quickly sold out.
However, the show was cancelled after just five minutes of performance due to a large crowd, posing a health and safety risk.
The organizers of the boiler room should have known better than to put the entire disclosure in a small tent. pic.twitter.com/nHIlo4ANeb
— magnetic (@katnofeline) August 26, 2024
A source said Mixmag People began lining up to get into the tent “half an hour before Disclosure’s concert.” They told the publication that patrons pushed inside the tent through a forced opening, causing a crowd to surge. The concert was then shut down and security “closed the tent and barricaded the entrance, forcing people back.”
In a statement, Boiler Room said it became clear five minutes into the concert that a large portion of the festival-goers wanted to enter the tent to see them, so as a safety precaution the concert was shut down. No injuries were reported.
The show was cancelled, to which Disclosure responded by saying: “Unfortunately this is out of our control but the festival deemed it unsafe for us to perform due to the crowd.” They also told fans on Instagram that they had worked “really hard” on their set and had flown from Los Angeles to London just to perform.
The news comes just a month after Peggy Gou’s concert at Seoul Boiler Room was shut down by police over fears of a crowd crush.
The Boiler Room event, held at Seoul’s SFactory on July 27, was evacuated “between 00:30 and 00:40” before the South Korean DJ was due to take the stage, according to reports from Mixmag.
In the added reports of North KoreaEmergency services received reports of overcrowding during the event, requiring 11 fire engines and 42 firefighters to respond. Five people were reportedly treated for breathing difficulties, but there were no casualties or serious injuries.
At the time, Boiler Bedroom also added in a separate statement that it takes security “extremely seriously,” with “detailed measures in place at every event to ensure a situation like this does not occur.”
“We are reviewing our systems internally to ensure this does not happen again,” they added. “To our fans in Seoul, you and your city are incredibly important to us, and we are devastated that we were unable to deliver an event that lived up to our expectations.”
