Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Delivers Timely Urge For Gig-Goers To Look After Each Other
The frontman spoke about the Astroworld tragedy while onstage over the weekend.
Weeks on from the Astroworld tragedy, a crowd surge that claimed 10 lives, Corey Taylor of Slipknot has delivered an impassioned plea for gig-goers to look after one another.
As noted by MusicFeeds, the heavy metal frontman delivered the comments at Welcome To Rockville festival.
“I’m not gonna bring everything down but I feel like it needs to be said,” Taylor said to the crowd. “One of the wonderful things about this genre, about this audience, about this family is that we look out for one another. This is supposed to be a place of celebration, of love, and about looking out for one another. And everybody that’s ever been in a fucking mosh pit knows: if somebody goes down, you get ’em right the fuck back up.”
From there, Taylor acknowledged the Astroworld tragedy directly, making note of those “eight souls that we lost” (two more have passed away since the Slipknot frontman made the remarks), and urging the audience to “hold onto” their memory.
In conclusion, Taylor again stressed that the most important factor of live music safety is making sure that those around you are as comfortable as possible.
“I also want you to remember this: no matter what show you go to, if you’ve got eyes, you keep ’em open, you keep ’em focused and you look out for one another,” he said.
Watch the address in full right here:
Taylor’s comments are a deeply necessary reminder that making gigs safer should be the highest priority of all involved. It’s worth adding, in addition to his statement, that this onus of responsibility also falls upon promoters and festival organisers. For too long, those in the upper echelons of power have prioritised money-making over the health of gig-goers. We need to see that cost-benefit analysis reversed, and to see the health of those who love live music treated with respect and care.