British electronic duo Disclosure performed at Toronto’s EnerCare Centre this past weekend, an unconventional venue that evidently wasn’t prepared to host a music event of this size.
The EnerCare Centre, which is Canada’s largest exhibition and convention centre, opened up its doors to thousands of enthusiastic fans on Saturday night who came to see the act behind the 2012 Sam Smith-assisted hit "Latch." Many of the attendees wore jackets due to the cold October weather.
To deal with this, the venue blocked off a section of the building and filled it with coat racks for concertgoers to coat-check their belongings, leaving them on marked hangers. Unfortunately, when the show let out just after midnight, many swarmed the racks frantically looking for their jackets but in some cases stealing others’ belongings.
"People just started to break into the barricades they had set up for the coat-check," one concertgoer named Melanie Langevine told CityNews. "People were breaking in … people were crowdsurfing in and nothing was happening."
Langevine recorded the chaos and posted the video online. It shows people shouting, shoving their way to the coat racks and many of the security in the building standing by instead of intervening.
Many have since taken to social media to report missing jackets, money, keys and many other valuable belongings.
EnerCare Cenre spokesperson Laura Purdy told CityNews that both coat-check and event security were the responsibilities of the show promoters, Embrace Presents. "We are asking the promoter to communicate with patrons and are very concerned with the events that transpired," Purdy said.
Embrace quickly responded to angry commenters on Facebook: "We are working with our production team and the coat check operator to resolve this situation as quickly as possible and reunite people with their lost coats. Anyone who has not contacted us yet should send an email to: info@coatconnexion.ca with a photo of their coat check ticket, a description and a picture of their coat if possible."
The promoters also promised that they would set up a lost-and-found for all coats.
"My jacket isn’t lost," another concertgoer told CityNews. "Someone walked out with it."
by Melody Lau via Electronic RSS
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