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I woke up this morning and found out about the news from Wenz and ELI's multiply. Apparently a band, called Beside had their album launch at AACC (the last surviving good gig venue in Bandung) over the weekend, and something happened during the show that caused a stampede (some said police tried to stop the show and people started fighting after that). Of course, there are reports saying people were pushing and shoving each other inside the hall, and fainting could have been caused by lack of air circulation. Some newspapers said gig-goers were given alcohol-laced drinks that made people faint. Logically, it could be a combination of both, alcohol and lack of oxygen. And in music shows like this, people dance and jump and really couldn't care less about any other people.

If it's to give any comparison, AACC in Bandung, is pretty much like the usual gig hall at MCPA  here in  Kuala Lumpur. But the AACC is really about twice the size of it. But like AACC, MCPA suffers the same ventilation problem, and it really is a scary thing. The gig scene here is already in trouble with the authorities and if something like AACC's tragedy happens here, it would spell 'the end' to a lot of things.

On the Indonesian side now, I can only guess that most probably after this, the authorities will be stricter at issuing permits and I can feel the pain coming to my gig organizer/label owner friends.

Will update more on this when I have more info, but the families of the 11 youngsters who died in Bandung, condolences.

Reads from mainstream press:
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AFP
International Herald Tribune
Detik Bandung
Metro TV News
Pikiran Rakyat (the best report so far) ( read the last para-- "The police wanted to stop the show after seeing so many people fainting, but it seems that more people were found on the floor after the stop order was issued.")