There was plenty of high drama for Sydney festivals this past weekend, with storms, evacuations, arrests and homophobia all making headlines off the back of events such as Soundwave, Future Music Festival and the under-18s Good Life Festival.
Granted, most — if not all — of the problems were outside the realm of control for organisers and punters, but new footage has emerged from both Future and Good Life of further tumult, this time coming from ticket-holders themselves.
Firstly, there's this piece of video, below, shot by a bystander and sent to theMusic.com.au, which depicts a stream of variably athletic would-be punters gunning it, hurdles-style, over a series of barricades towards their destiny as free-wheeling, free-loading festival-goers for the day. It's hardly a unique event — people organise this sort of thing via Facebook now — but nonetheless, there are a fair few individuals who seem to have slipped through the frustrated security force's net, striding towards their freedom like vodka-Red Bull-fuelled gazelles.
Check out the footage below.
At Good Life, however, an in-crowd incident of considerably greater severity has caught the attention of the community, with fan-shot footage being uploaded to YouTube of two young attendees getting involved in a violent fist-fight, which is mercifully brought to a relatively quick finish by the intervention of a third youth.
In addition, footage is now being circulated of the festival's single — albeit dramatic — arrest but, despite the publicising of these clips, it should be noted that, by and large, in the wake of having to contend with such a ferocious turn of events at the hands of Mother Nature, the general attitude towards both festivals - Good Life especially - has been one of praise for handling what could have been an otherwise exceedingly ugly situation with aplomb.
Future Music Festival continues this weekend. See our Festivals hub for more information.
