A long-time Oasis fan traveled from Wakefield with a group of friends for the Wednesday night (July 16) show and was standing when security claimed he had been kicked out by security personnel.
A long-time Oasis fan was misled after being misled into missing their Heaton Park performance and missing the long-awaited reunion he had been looking forward to. Wakefield resident Lewis Burnage, 26, made the journey to the Wednesday night (July 16) concert with friends, securing a front row seat.
His excitement was jedoch slowed down just four songs into Oasis’ set when security, who had mistaken him for a group that was causing flares, ejected him. Lewis, a devoted follower since his early teens, spent roughly £135 on his ticket last year at the general sale in search of the music that had provided the soundtrack to his life.
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After watching support acts Cast and Richard Ashcroft warm up the crowd, he and his friend Tom, who was the only ones in their group with front standing tickets, entered their section separately.
However, Lewis’s dream night turned sour as Oasis began with “Cigarettes and Alcohol,” which was followed by other revelers in his path. Retail worker Lewis recently told the M. E. N that when the bus started to slog, “I was having the best time of my life.”
“I was letting off flares in front of the people.” At first, security seemed unconcerned, but after those guys let off more flares, the security came over, picked me up, and took me out.
“My friend was asking security staff where they were taking me and they said they were moving me onto a different place,” he said, reports the Manchester Evening News.
They simply said they had to and dragged me out of the crowd, and I was carried over the barrier, and I wasn’t told why.
“One of them has my arms and the other has my legs,” according to the video. I started crying once they told me I was being removed, and some of the footage shows me getting really emotional.
allegedly, video that iscirculating on social media shows Lewis being escorted out by security and then withdrawn from the front-facing area.
They dropped me at the barrier after passing through the gate, the exit wall, and then the exit gate. I repeatedly requested a supervisor, but they told me to leave. A man simply stated that I had been taken away for a reason, but he refused to explain why.
After that, I just stayed at the gate and attempted to contact a supervisor, but they refused, so I went to a friend, who I was alone in a familiar location, and had to wait on the street to watch the show from there.
“One of my friends called me at the end, and they picked me up because it was too far to walk,” I said.
Lewis described his ordeal, blaming the staff for blocking his entry when he returned to the gate earlier that day. He was informed that because he hadn’t exited through that gate and that he shouldn’t have been removed with his wristband, re-entry was not possible.
He said, “I was shocked and disbelief, and it still hurts, to be honest, after all these years of waiting.”
He expressed his concern for safety at concerts, saying that “they shouldn’t let these flares enter concerts because it’s dangerous and destroying people’s lives.” It was a possibility of a flare-up that was much worse.
Lewis, who was determined to find answers, gathered evidence and posted it on social media, saying, “I won’t be the first to find out this happened.”
He continues to be incredulous, saying, “I know others get removed for being drunk or disorderly, and I do get it, but I just can’t believe it happened to me, I didn’t do it.”
He confessed to the victim that he took two days off after the incident because he felt so distressed. I’ve been devastated, I didn’t want to deal with it, I just wasn’t in the right mindset.
Lewis emailed Showsec and SJM to ask for an explanation. While SJM confirmed they would launch an investigation within 28 days, Lewis said it would be too late for any Oasis shows, Showsec requested more information, including the date and time.
He explained that the men in his place had set off smoke flares and gave Showsec and SJM, the Oasis concerts’ organisers, detailed information about the location and time of the incident.
On Friday (July 18), a Showsec’s customer service team spokeswoman expressed regret and wished Lewis had received more information about the incident, including details about the time, place, and staff involved.
An SJM Concerts representative acknowledged Lewis’ complaint on both Friday and Saturday, promising to look into it thoroughly and respond to it in the span of 28 days.
It’s difficult to say that talking about it makes me feel very upset, but I’ve just made an effort to remain optimistic. However, security has caused me to have burns and bruises on both my arms and body. I had a lifetime to see Oasis, but they have sincerized my dream.
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