Doccie reveals shocking details of Travis Scott's deadly festival

I'VE been waiting years for a proper documentary on the Astroworld tragedy, one that strips away the headlines, the hashtags and the hype to finally give a voice to the people caught in the chaos.

- BERNELEE VOLLMER

It's been nearly five years since the deadly incident yet only now, through Netflix’s Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy, are we truly beginning to grasp the horror of the music festival.

You can practically feel the breathlessness, the panic, the suffocation that engulfed the crowd that night. It's a grim reminder of what happens when chaos meets carelessness and no one takes responsibility.

Astroworld was supposed to be a celebration. Born out of Travis Scott’s childhood nostalgia for the defunct Six Flags Astroworld amusement park in Houston, Texas, the festival was marketed as a surreal wonderland of music, lights and striking visuals.

The rapper positioned himself not just as a performer but as the creator of a musical universe.

Fans came from across the country, some after months of isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, all seeking release, connection and excitement. What they found instead was terror.

Ten people, many of them barely out of their teens, lost their lives in a deadly crowd surge during Scott's headline set.

Thousands more were left injured, traumatised or forever changed. The documentary slowly reveals the layers of mismanagement, negligence and sheer recklessness that turned a concert into a catastrophe.

The most powerful parts of the documentary come from those who were there, including a newly qualified nurse hoping to celebrate her achievement.