Emo/pop-punkers Joyce Manor had their set shutdown by local authorities last night (March 08th). The group’s performance, which was originally booked for The Underbelly, was instead moved to The Prime Osborn Convention Center in Jacksonville, FL.
The latter venue is also hosting a pop culture convention dubbed ‘Collective Con‘ this weekend. Porch Coffin and Glazed served as the openers for Joyce Manor during last night’s performance. According to those in attendance, venue security took issue with stage diving fans and moshers in the audience, at one point positioning themselves onstage to dissuade the behavior.
After failing to contain the situation to their liking, police were called in to shutdown the performance and quell the audience, leading to several concertgoers being detained and escorted away. Some fan-filmed footage from the proceedings can be seen below.
A user on Reddit who allegedly attended the event described the scene last night as follows:
“convention center clearly didn’t research before agreeing to move the show to their building. had who is assuming was an event organizer come on stage 5 mins into the set and tell everyone to stop moshing/crowd surfing so we could “have a safe show” to which people booed and cursed him off stage. few mins later they planted a security guard in the middle of the stage to throw people off if they got on stage to dive/crowd surf. ended up forcefully escorting a few off stage.
minutes later the band announced the fire marshall was shutting the show down. i left pretty soon after that because i could tell it was gonna be bad news if i hung around, but my friends and i walked outside to what had to be at LEAST 10-13 cop cars lit up. that’s when the arrests started happening and a whole army attacking a bunch of kids who did nothing wrong. imagine going to see your favorite band and walking out in cuffs for having a good time.
the osborn center encouraged police brutality tonight (also the only arrests i saw were people of color, no surprise there. holds up for jacksonville police.) and called law enforcement for NOTHING. huge shame on them for being so unprepared, impatient and judgmental. kinda scared what the outcome was for JM. wonder if they got in trouble.”
Security decided to post up on stage while Joyce Manor was playing Constant Headache and then shut down the show pic.twitter.com/5q72kWi2WL
— Nik (@nikrodriguez_) March 9, 2024
i stopped recording seconds before they shoved his head into the doorframe of the cop car when he was just trying to tell them he needed to give his gf her car keys (because she lives 2 hours away). upset i missed it, but had to guilt trip a cop into getting her keys back ACAB
— Far From Home Records (@farfromhomerec) March 9, 2024
very brave little man ready with his pepper spray for a bunch of kids at a punk show pic.twitter.com/w5PNLy6Oii
— katie (@katiexmechler) March 9, 2024
Taken by my girlfriend. Swat was all over pic.twitter.com/p6eZhcEdXC
— Hannah (@sablestarfush) March 9, 2024
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