Last Saturday on The University of Florida’s campus, Slightly Stoopid performed in front of a crowd of 12,000, only to have the whole concert shut down a mere six songs into their set.
The school was completely unprepared for the huge crowd that showed up, which led to problems that ultimately ended the concert early.
Police warned the crowd before the concert was stopped that they would end it early if people didn’t calm down.
Brent Colbourn, a junior at the University of Tampa who attended the concert, was able to elaborate in detail on what exactly happened up to the event’s early ending.
From where he was in the crowd, Colbourn could see people being pulled near the stage for medical attention.
“The cops warned the crowd, but most people were acting orderly so it seemed like an empty threat,” Colbourn said.
About two songs after the cop’s warning, Colbourn said that a UF Student Productions member got on stage and announced that the concert was being shut down.
The band then apologized to the crowd and played one more song before leaving the stage.
“After that, there was a feeling of uneasiness in the crowd, as if something bad might happen,” Colbourn said.
Katie Kerins, UT’s Student Productions music chair, said that what happened at UF will not happen at UT because the concert is available for UT students only.
“From what I’ve heard, the show getting shut down at UF was caused by a rough crowd resulting from a very large crowd, [because] their show was free to anyone who wanted to attend,” Kerins replied in an e-mail.
Kerins said that SP has met with UT Campus Safety and Security and officers will be checking student IDs at the event.
“UT students can definitely look forward to an awesome Slightly Stoopid show here in April,” Kerins said.
Can we at least bring a guest that is not a UT student?