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Manics in 99 certainly felt like a very big crowd when the security (who were doing as good a job as they possibly could have) were struggling to get me and an awful lot of other people who were getting crushed out of it. It was so difficult because they needed to lift us really high as the crowd was so packed if they'd just tried to take us out in the normal way they'd have broken our legs.

I've been in a lot of big, tight crowds before but nothing to compare to that. Very scary and last time they took a band off at Glastonbury for safety reasons as far as I know.

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Obviously the type of act will affect how you feel in the crowd, are people pushing forward, is there a mosh, or is it more relaxed and less hectic?

My own, extremely unscientific, experience seems to be that there were loads and loads of people at Stevie Wonder. They might not have all been at the front jumping around like mental, but the crowd went on and on and on.

As did Stevie, I believe.

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I remember the Stevie crowd being huge but I never had problems walking around everyone. A lot of people near the back on the slope were sitting down on the ground & there seemed to be a lot of what I presumed locals in camp chairs. Perhaps from eye level the crowds look bigger as you cannot see the space between people, but when up in the cherry picker / helo / light aircraft it might look at (more) barren.

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True that.

We were fairly close to the front for Stevie (about level with the middle screen and to the left) and whilst we had room to dance, it was clearly very busy. There were people stood on the paths and in the trees. And behind trees. Looking backwards the crowd just kept going. It may not have been mad crush time due to the nature of the act but it was huge.

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The path at the back of the field was almost blocked, it was a real struggle to ge through it, never experienced that there before, but I don't often end up that far back if I watch a headliner

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Me and my mate were almost right at the front for Stevie and even though we had room to dance I can tell you that the crush was intense and that was in the pit. I looked behind me before the start of his set and all I could see was just a sea of people. Unforgettable gig though.

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This thread has prompted me to spend some YouTube time with Stevie this evening. Anyone who was there and says it wasn't a blinding performance is either deaf/blind or lying. Monumental.

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For Stevie we were fairly near the front to the left hand side, and whilst very busy was definitely not the crush as when the guitar bands play. People always space out for dancier stuff anyway.

During the first half of the set our group even managed to all swap places as I wanted to stand next to my OH.

Best crush (and I mean it in a good way) down the front was FLC in 1999, cos you didn't decide to jump, the rest of the crowd just took you with it anyway!

I don't think I've ever watched a headliner at the Pyramid from the same spot, so couldn't say which I thought was biggest, but thought Stevie crowd looked massive from where we were near the front. It literally did not stop.

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Me and my mate were almost right at the front for Stevie and even though we had room to dance I can tell you that the crush was intense and that was in the pit. I looked behind me before the start of his set and all I could see was just a sea of people. Unforgettable gig though.

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