While the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Sun provided pages of coverage relating to late June’s three-night Electric Daisy Carnival --- already booked to return in 2012 --- that drew up to 85,000 generally “well-behaved” attendees each night in Las Vegas, both dailies spiked news reports of a near riot by several thousand rowdy revelers in Hollywood last Wednesday night during a film premiere of the “Electric Daisy Carnival Experience,” notes Grumpy Editor.
Action on famous and busy Hollywood Blvd., where a massive traffic jam developed, showed unruly young people defying police orders to disperse, throwing bottles and stomping on several police cars, damaging roofs and windshields.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority --- eager for any gathering involving 100 to 100,000 attendees --- was delighted when Electric Daisy Carnival backers selected Las Vegas for this year’s music festival.
The LVCVA cheered even more when EDC announced plans to return to Las Vegas next year, despite some negativeness associated with the mostly young crowd.
The EDC moved its music festival to Sin City this year after Los Angeles banished it following the death of a 15-year-old girl last summer. Two others died at an EDC event in Dallas in early June.
At the June festival in Las Vegas, police were busy booking some attendees at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway grounds, site of the event.
Twenty-seven felony and 31 misdemeanor arrests were made in Sin City, according to a Las Vegas Sun tally.
The festival each day started around 6 p.m. and concluded at dawn.
Last week’s near riot on Hollywood Blvd. where the screened film at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre documented one of the nation’s largest electronic dance parties, didn’t get much coverage in U.S. dailies either, although Los Angeles television stations were on scene.
The screening was a private, invitation-only affair.
The near riot in Hollywood was triggered following a Twitter invitation to attend a block party outside Grauman’s.
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