Last night, Los Angeles Police Department shut down Hollywood Mega Club
Avalon during the weekly Control party. Details are still thin, but apparently the club first
began denying entrance due to capacity issues before the lights came up and police
emptied out the several Thousand revelers.
Prices and crazy Ravers have nothing to do with what happened last night. Once
again, they over sold tickets and filled the house only this time they were caught by the
fire marshal and were forced to shut down. The only people, who are at fault, are the staff
of Avalon, and they need to take responsibility. Obviously they would like oversell
tickets because all of that cash is going in their pockets, but hopefully from now on they
will acknowledge the capacity limit for the size of their venue.
Riot police, helicopters and fire were all on site to shut down the entire block of Vine
between Hollywood Boulevard and Yucca where the club is located. There are no reports
of any incidents as the crowd was dispersed.
This shut down occurs around the same time as a series of nightclub shut down in
New York City. Ironically, this is also the same week that the Los Angeles Coliseum, the
venue for Electric Daisy Carnival, announced that it would resume bookings of electronic
music events following a highly publicized moratorium on such events.
U-R-B has calls in to representatives of Avalon and Control, as well as the electro
band Dada Life who were scheduled to headline last night’s event.
