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Pete Doherty banned from headlining festival over safety concerns

monkey9 · 2008-08-20 16:19:21

He was meant to headline the Moonfest festival in Wiltshire next week. Lawyers for the Wiltshire Police convinced magistrates to have him banned because he would 'gee up' the crowd into a dangerous frenzy. Police say "they speed up and then slow down the music and create a whirlpool effect in the crowd. They all get geed…

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He was meant to headline the Moonfest festival in Wiltshire next week. Lawyers for the Wiltshire Police convinced magistrates to have him banned because he would 'gee up' the crowd into a dangerous frenzy. Police say "they speed up and then slow down the music and create a whirlpool effect in the crowd. They all get geed up and then they start fighting".
"Experts are telling us that the profile of fans that follow Pete Doherty and Babyshambles is volatile and they can easily be whipped into a frenzy whereas the profile of someone that would follow around Cliff Richard or Bucks Fizz, foe example, is completely different"

What age are we living in!! This is a joke. Apparantly though, the police are raging that Doherty lives in the area and are trying to make things as hard as possible for him

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