10:23 p.m. Fall Fest ended on a sour note this evening when singer Sean Kingston ended his show abruptly after objects were thrown on stage.
Kingston, who was the headliner at Saturday’s concert, left the stage a little more than half hour after he started his set when two glow sticks were thrown on stage. Tim Miller, executive director of the Student Activities Center came on stage to tell the crowd not to throw objects, and Kingston returned about 10 minutes later. But after two more songs, another glow stick was thrown and Kingston left the stage again.
Reached on his cell phone, Miller said Kingston made the decision to leave the stage after approximately 30 glow sticks were thrown on the stage. “It was up to the crowd to decide if the show would go on,” he said. Kingston was scheduled to perform two more songs, he added.
Program Board, who gave out the glow sticks at the event, released a statement after the show that said Kingston was struck by two objects thrown after he had come back on stage.
Program Board Chair Tiffany Meehan said Kingston finished his set, but was scheduled to do a two-song encore that he did not complete. Mike Geremia, the agent who worked with Program Board to book the event, however, said Kingston cut his set by about 15 minutes, not including an encore.
Geremia added the singer was scheduled to do a meet and greet with students from Program Board, but Kingston declined to after the show.
“I don’t know what students would get out of throwing glow sticks on the stage,” Geremia said.
Meehan said Kingston was “very upset.”
“One GW student ruined a show that thousands came to today and that’s unbelievable.”
Meehan declined to discuss Program Board’s financial engagement with Kingston. Asked if the shorter show would effect Kingston’s compensation, Geremia said “It’s not his fault that the show was stopped short and I’ll leave it at that.”
Gabriella Schwarz and Amy D’Onofrio contributed to this report.
GW Fails again! Don’t blame the students. Blame a terrible act!
Who gave out the glowsticks?
Someone should have started a circle pit.
He sucked anyways, no worries
Great move Programming Board. Way to give out throwable objects to drunk college kids.
I don’t care so much about Sean Kingston, but I’m worried how stuff like this is going to affect GW’s ability to attract quality acts in the future…
I agree w/ Ben
Way to be bratty/rude kids GW. You don’t like something so you act like disrespectful, spoiled children and throw glow sticks. GROW UP! This isn’t high school anymore. I think Sean Kingston handled the situation well…if people were throwing things at my face, I would do more than just walk off stage…
no one likes kingston anyway. boooo program board.
I think the students had plenty of reasons to be upset. Nobody could see because there wasn’t a raised platform, the sound system was terrible, and Kingston just wasn’t very good. PB wasn’t prepared and it showed.
A couple things:
1). Why wasn’t there an elevated stage like for OK Go two years ago? Why wasn’t there a bigger gap between Kingston and the crowd?
2). Whose idea was it to hand out glowsticks to drunk college students, as noted above.
3). Way to further damage our school reputation, glowstick throwers. As if everyone didn’t already think we were a bunch of a spoiled kids.
Whoever’s dumb idea it was to give out the glowsticks could not have possibly saw an alternate use for them other than for people to throw them at the fake Jamaican, Sean Kingston.
Sean Kingston is the greatest musical act of the 21st century…for shame.
Getting my teeth scraped at the dentist would have been more enjoyable than listening to Sean Kingston.
The concert was ruined the minute Mr. Kingston lip-synced the first song and barely sang the other songs, frequently turning to background vocals for support. As an unseasoned performer, Mr. Kingston even had to resort to singing songs that were not his originals and which he terribly sang. DJ was horrible too. Everything was bad about this fall fest. Shame on GW for getting such a terrible act, as well.
PB and Kingston can both take part of the blame, for reasons already stated. Honestly, half of the kids left U-Yard once Kingston showed up. I’d bet a good amount of them were the drunkest of the drunk, only empowered with glowsticks. At the same time, had the performer been someone who can perform well live, there probably wouldn’t have been glowsticks thrown anyway.
Also, lol@Winner. He/She’s probably one of the few with a sense of humor.
PB, lets pick a better performer for such a big event. Kingston was advertised all over the place and his performance did not meet expectations. As mentioned above, all he did was lip sync. Shame on him for sucking and walking off stage.
Next time, throw the glow sticks at Meehan. She’s the one with the bad taste in programming.
he deserved to have glow sticks thrown at him, honestly. GW is awful at obtaining good musicians. kingston lip synced songs and his “music” is garbage anyways. ps who is scared of glow sticks, i think the song bfor he left the stage was about being a thug haha. GOOD MUSIC