Februar 2012 The Creation of an industry Mick Upton The Evolution of Crowd Barriers E O Cees Muurling MMade by ConCom Safety V Summerdays Festival i Schweiz Johnny Jønsson En hilsen fra Helvede! Jeppe Nissen Fodbold er ikke det rene anarki Lars Hintze Crowd dynamics Keith Still 1 MOVE What’s in it? Leder En hilsen fra helvede! Morten Therkildsen 4 18 Jeppe Nissen The Creation of an industry Summerdays Festival i Schweitz Mick Upton 6 22 Johnny Jonsson Fodbold er ikke det rene anarki Det siger loven / Tillykke til... Lars Hintze 8 28 Crowd dynamics 10 30 Mötorhead i VEGA Keith Still Visti Iversen Historien om VEGA Hvad er moshing? Eva Therkildsen 12 31 The Evolution of Crowd Barriers Cees Muurling 14 Move’s Redaktion: Sofie Dahl - Layout og redaktion Eva Therkildsen - Redaktion Forslag, tips og idéer: 2 [email protected] 3 Prepared for the future of learning from history and plan ahead large scale. It is about documentation, TY TR AFE AIN or just await the next accident, and crowd psychology, crowd dynamics, S IN L G not have any contingency plans ready. management principles, expected A A N S O S Since ConCom Safety started in 2006, incidents and a lot more. You have to I O International Safety T the employees have been a part of learn from other incidents and accidents A C N I creating a culture of speaking open- in the past and bring it into your own A R T E planning. We believe that Lincoln’s I minded about what we can improve. We T O Training Association N I evaluate with the purpose of improving thoughts about using experiences will N ISTA ourselves and learn from our errors. help us to learn from the past at prepare for the future. We started with Live Nation as the only customer, and were lucky to receive lots This in specific is the reason why of challenges from them and as time ConCom Safety is now starting went on, I got a clear sense that I had to a magazine about Crowd Safety improve my own knowledge. I became Management. We want to utilize HIGHER STANDARD aware of the possibility of studying the network that we have got from ISTA IS BRINGING EVENT SAFETY TO A Crowd Safety Management on academic international socializing; participating level in England. The education was in seminars, education and active In order to provide the highest standard of event If you are a private person, a company providing In 1839 Abraham Lincoln said; ”We know challenging, but with the help from knowledge sharing to gather interesting safety training, companies from Denmark, Norway, event safety or for other reasons interested in event and relevant articles which can improve nothing of what will happen in future, but especially The Head of Security in Live Finland, Switzerland and Germany have created an safety you can contact the representatives of ISTA by the analogy of experience.” Nation, I got the necessary background the knowledge of the reader. knowledge to complete the education. international joint cooperation of training academies. in order to get the highest standard of education I just returned from a couple of days in Now and in the future ConCom Safety and training. The representatives will assist you in company with event safety people from An academic degree in event safety must be a part of improving the mindset By sharing training ideas, knowledge and experience choosing the right courses from the wide range most of Europe. We were discussing might sound strange for most people. of the industry, both at home and the companies are committed to drive the European of training available, or courses designed for your what goes on in the industry, what is the Not so long ago someone said to me; abroad. At the same time we wish event safety standards to a higher level. specific needs. best way to learn from the incidents that “Exactly what is it you need to learn in to enhance our social culture in the has been, and not least of all; how we order to stand in a door?” But event company by setting focus on our own can help each other to create the safest safety has proven to be more than just employees and their experiences. surroundings for our audience. standing in a door. Choosing a member of ISTA, The International Safety Training Association, you are guaranteed to get event I hope that you feel that Move has safety training based on high level of experience mixed with international academic knowledge. We have been looking at what has Crowd Safety Management is defined as something to offer, and there is happened through the history and with systematic planning, and supervision, something new, intriguing and different our shared experience, looking at what of orderly movement of crowds. This that can be a part of improving and we can expect in the future. In this way means that providing event safety is motivating you in your field of work. we can be well prepared for the most somewhat more complex than standing challenging incidents. in a door. You have to evaluate risk INFORMATION and possible incidents and create Morten Therkildsen www.ibit.eu In Brian Toft´s book “Learning from action plans on how to minimize the CEO, ConCom Safety ETY TRA Disaster” he describes how the culture in problems and especially how to handle www.festsec.fi AF IN an organization can mean the difference negative incidents of both small and www.s-hoch3.ch S IN www.sossecurity.no G www.eventskolen.dk L A A N S O S Move er lavet til ConCom Safetys medarbejdere, samarbejdspartnere og kunder I O samt andre der har interesse i crowd safety management. T Move bringer artikler om de mange forskellige aspekter af branchen, og fungerer A C tillige som intern kommunikation i virksomheden. N EventskolenI .dk A R T 4 E 5 I T O N I N ISTA MOVE the industry Some groups only rehearsed a fifteen minute act because they has worked to improve the standards of Crowd Safety Management for four decades. His Mick Upton knew that that the stage would be work in research and education has earned him numerous awards from the industry, and he may be considered invaded and the show stopped. as the Founding Father of Crowd Safety Management. Today, Mick is retired but is still involved in the develeopment “ of the industry and he tells Move about his experiences. “ The creation of an industry I have been privileged to have worked it up her rear. Not wishing to tackle a room Concert promoters at larger venues built Photo above: Mick Upton has worked as a VIP close in what is now called the leisure security full of sailors head on, I announced loudly barriers from scaffolding that were usually protection operative. His client included politicians, industry for over fifty years. I use the term that I had phoned for the military police braced back to the stage that was also foreign diplomats and high profile people from the `privileged` because I have been allowed (MPs). MPs had a fearsome reputation for constructed from scaffolding. Security teams world of entertainment. Here Mick is seen with David to witness first hand the transformation cracking heads at that time and this caused could now defend the stage from within a Soul at the filming of the TV show Starsky and Hutch of what was once a loose collection of the navy to dash out of the club. When the barrier system but it could be a frightening (1975). club bouncers to become an industry that manager returned from the pub he was experience to stand on a stage that was provides professional crowd management not impressed, he fired me for losing all his being slowly pushed backward by crowd Photo left: Live Aid, Monsters of Rock, Moscow Peace specialists that hold a university degree. paying customers! pressure on the barrier. Festival, Sydney Olympic During my years in the industry I was Games are some of the productions that Mick Upton fortunate enough to travel the world; firstly Working with The Beatles Stage invasions were solved to a large worked at. He also worked with major bands like protecting the rich and famous then as a Disillusioned with the security industry I extent by demountable barrier systems Beatles and Queen. The photo shows Mick with Jon crowd manager of major events. Following went off to join the army. On completion of that were first introduced by John Mulder Bonham from Led Zeppelin in 1980. my retirement I was invited to write crowd my military service I returned home to find who developed the name famous Mojo safety management and VIP protection that rock `n` roll had evolved to become barrier. Mojo systems are portable and can courses at Buckinghamshire New University `beat music` and groups were having easily be erected and dismantled on site. where I subsequently became the founder serious problems with stage invasions by Front of stage was not the only problem of the Centre for Crowd Management and excited fans. I was offered work first with however. Promoters in the seventies he locked the extinguishers in his office. that it was unfair that some people had not Planning for crowd safety at an event of any Security Studies. the Beatles and then with other famous were now presenting outdoor shows that Rather than cancel the show the Fire Officer paid for a ticket. When I explained to him size requires skill and dedication and for acts of the day.