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RIP: death at RockNess for second year running
Posted: 09 Jun '08, 10:51
An 18-year-old man attending the RockNess festival in the Scottish Highlands died after being found unconscious in front of the main stage on Saturday (7 Jun).
In the second fatal incident in as many years at the festival, Ryan Munro of Hopeman, Morayshire, was pronounced dead at Raigmore hospital in Inverness an hour and a half after his prone body was discovered by onsite first-aiders at 2.30pm local time. The cause of death is not yet known.
Munro was one of around 10,000 who turned out to see performances from the likes of Fatboy Slim, The View, Underworld and The Cribs. Last year, 39-year-old Dundonian Paul Litterick was found dead in his car after suffering a suspected heroin overdose.
Messages of condolence have accumulated at Munro’s Bebo page which is still, eerily enough, decked out in what DiS assumes is an official RockNess ‘wallpaper’.
DiScuss: were any DiS readers present at RockNess this weekend? What was the general mood at the festival?
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Scotch festivals = dangerous
T In The Park goers are more collectively defensive and obsessive over their festival than any others.
They plague YouTube with comments about how other festivals are awful in comparison, and get abusive if you disagree.
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Poor lad though.
It would be horrible to die at a music festival.
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You're forgetting
that T in the Park is more about drinking vast amounts of Buckfast and fighting than seeing good bands.
My impression was that the other festivals were considerably more civilised, if a bit bland.
So yeah, moral of the story, don't base your impressions of Scotland just on the arseholes from T in the Park.
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I'm not that keen on dying anywhere really.
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The atmosphere at T can be amazing.....
at the gigs but it can change in certain parts of the campsite at night. Again 95% of folk behave brilliantly and a small minority let the side down.
I canny be arsed dealing with the scumbag neds anymore though so I go to other festivals.-
Last year a guy camped near us at Glastonbury
spoke about seeing some guy laying face down motionless in a massive puddle as people just carried on walking past. Apparently somebody died there last year, so it could well have been that chap
Pretty shocking really
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i've never seen
any 'fighting' at T in the Park at all.
the whole 'great atmosphere' thing is mostly bollocks.. it's just lots of drunk people.. but i've yet to witness any violence there.
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hear you
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me and a mate…
went for a late night stroll through the campsite at T in the Park one year. There was a girl being revived outside her tent… Couple of guys walking the other way sniggered about how it "wouldn’t be T in the Park" otherwise. Some folk just lack decency. Festivals are no exception.
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I heard that scottish festivals
are pretty similar to how Rick Dagless describes the country as a whole in Darkplace.
Horrible thing to happen whenever and wherever though
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wow, what's going on here?
What's with the general, "ah well Scottish festivals are mental" attitude. Firstly it's pretty inappropriate, and I suppose the lesser point is that it’s a massive generalisation. From what I have heard the Reading and Leeds festivals tend to be rougher than any of the Scottish ones. Maybe they are, maybe they’re not. Just seems like a bit of a queue to have a kick at Scots fests. At Scottish festivals everyone gets pretty steaming but there is in my opinion a general sense of camaraderie amidst the drunkin stupor.
Plus according to BRMC, Joe Strummer told them that the King Tuts tent was one of the best crowds he has played to. I know, I know he must say that to everyone but I think it at least marks the festival as having a bit of a special atmosphere.
Damn shame for the poor guy, his family and friends. Young guy, life ahead of him, trying to have a good time.
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According to an article i read on this
in the Edinburgh Evening News, the atmosphere was really good at the festival, no disruptions during the night or anything :( this is really tragic, poor guy. He died in the same hospital i was born in.
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