Photo: Santa Barbara Independent
Mac DeMarco's concert at the University of California Santa Barbara on Friday (November 14) was abruptly curtailed after DeMarco was detained and several fans were arrested for disorderly conduct.
According to The Santa Barbara Independent, campus police detained DeMarco during his performance at The Hub “after he was crowd surfing and climbing in the venue’s ceiling beams.”
DeMarco’s detention marked the second time the police halted the concert after earlier arresting some concert-goers for violent moshing.
According to The Independent:
About ten minutes into the show, security officers reportedly got on the stage and shined light on the audience, some of whom were moshing. Attendees speculated they were looking for people smoking marijuana. Not long after, a 22-year-old male - not a student and from out of the area - was arrested for challenging concert-goers as well as security officers to fight. More officers were called in for back up and several other attendees were escorted outside for fighting, according to UCSB police Lt. Mark Signa. UCSB police officers also arrested a 21-year-old UCSB female student for moshing. She was charged with resisting an officer, and according to Signa, later assaulted a jail staff member.
According to The Santa Barbara Independent, campus police detained DeMarco during his performance at The Hub “after he was crowd surfing and climbing in the venue’s ceiling beams.”
DeMarco’s detention marked the second time the police halted the concert after earlier arresting some concert-goers for violent moshing.
According to The Independent:
About ten minutes into the show, security officers reportedly got on the stage and shined light on the audience, some of whom were moshing. Attendees speculated they were looking for people smoking marijuana. Not long after, a 22-year-old male - not a student and from out of the area - was arrested for challenging concert-goers as well as security officers to fight. More officers were called in for back up and several other attendees were escorted outside for fighting, according to UCSB police Lt. Mark Signa. UCSB police officers also arrested a 21-year-old UCSB female student for moshing. She was charged with resisting an officer, and according to Signa, later assaulted a jail staff member.
The show went on, but was interrupted again after UCSB police officers detained DeMarco for sitting up in the railings. DeMarco was propped up to the beams by attendees after he surfed the crowd. He climbed to the second floor of the venue and walked down the stairs back to the stage where police officers detained him. According to Signa, it wasn’t until the police officers spoke to DeMarco outside that they realized he was the lead singer.
Makes you wonder whether DeMarco felt more peeved about having his show stopped, or police not knowing who the hell he was.
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