{"id":222083,"date":"2025-06-28T19:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222083\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:22:11","slug":"margate-drum-bass-festival-at-dreamland-closed-down-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222083\/","title":{"rendered":"Margate Drum & Bass Festival at Dreamland closed down early"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Additional reporting by Brad Harper <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dreamland has cancelled a drum and bass event suddenly following a medical incident.<\/p>\n

The Margate Drum & Bass Festival was due to run until 10.30pm but people were asked to leave at around 5.40pm.<\/p>\n

It is understood that a medical emergency and the heat forced organisers to make the decision, while some at the venue were told it was due to \u2018the heat, people drinking, the drugs: we don\u2019t have enough medical staff\u2019.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s now a heavy police presence, as officers are also enforcing a dispersal order in the Thanet. <\/a><\/p>\n

At just before 8pm, Kent Police confirmed they were aware of a medical incident at the venue and had sent additional patrols to help make sure people were able to leave safely.<\/p>\n

One person at the venue said: “Mozey came on and said everyone has to go, the venue is closing and you all need to leave now. We have a medical emergency.<\/p>\n

“There were a few angry people but most were pretty calm about it. I think they were just angry because we don’t know what’s going on.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice officers and stewards watch on as festival goers leave Dreamland early\"DreamlandDreamland was desolate shortly after emergency services were called to attend its most recent drum and bass event<\/p>\n

“Lots of security arrived after to help get everyone out, I think they’ve dealt with it as well as they can.”<\/p>\n

The venue upped its measures to protect gig-goers following the tragic death of a young woman last year<\/a>, including a more stringent drugs policy and checks, no under 18s at such events, further training for staff – including age verification – and higher numbers of paramedics for high-risk events, as well as a no re-entry policy.<\/p>\n

The event had taken over the park, with the venue posting this morning to let people know of a change to the usual timings.<\/p>\n

It said: \u201cThis weekend our opening times are a little different. Today it’s a Park Takeover as Margate Drum & Bass Festival headlines our Scenic Stage for an all-day event.<\/p>\n

“We’re back on Sunday with rides, amusements, virtual reality and roller disco.”<\/p>\n

\"NumerousNumerous police officers could be seen outside Dreamland after the one-day festival shut early<\/p>\n

They have since posted on Facebook to say: \u201cSorry guys, it was just too hot today so we had to close early.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet home safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ambulance service and Dreamland have been contacted for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional reporting by Brad Harper Dreamland has cancelled a drum and bass event suddenly following a medical incident.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,495,1510,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-222083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kent","10":"tag-thanet","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114762622409167218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}