Australia’s favourite traveling regional music festival, Groovin The Moo, has been a rousing success thus far in 2015, having sold out nearly every date – which might have been why one of the events saw tonnes of povo punters gatecrash the party.
Footage has emerged of at least 50 people climbing, and then breaking down a fence at the Western Australia instalment of the festival in Bunbury and charge past security, as the guys at Musicfeeds point out.
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Shot by an on-looker, the video shows a mass of people charging at the festival’s fence, clambering over it before another huge surge of runners actually knock the fence over, making it super easy for the remaining handfuls to break on in.
Bunbury Police Sergeant Matt Leishman spoke to the Bunbury Mail, noting that he believes there’s a strong culture of fence-jumping at Australian music festivals across the entire country and that police would be meeting with events organisers to discuss strategies to avoid such incidents in the future.
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Leishman is correct, there is unfortunately a recent history of gatecrashers at Aussie music festivals.
Just last year both Perth and Sydney legs of the electronic-based Listen Out saw punters crash ‘n bash their way through to the event, thankfully none of these nor the recent Groovin example are anywhere near as bad as the shocking case of US festival Ultra, which resulted in one security guard being severely injured courtesy of idiotic gatecrashers.
Groovin The Moo has only two stops left on it’s nationwide tour, with New South Wales’ Maitland and Queensland’s Townsville prepping to be rocked by the Hilltop Hoods, Charlie XCX and Flight Facilities’ headlined event this Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Here’s footage of streams of people breaking-in to Groovin The Moo, Bunbury:
