Grapevine FestivalLincolnshire Showground
A temporary grandstand / raised bleacher-style seating collapse during Grapevine while Delirious? were performing in the Big Top at Lincolnshire Showground.
Incident Overview
Grapevine Festival Seating Collapse
Date: 29 August 2004. Contemporary sources place the collapse on the evening of Sunday 29 August 2004 during the Grapevine festival.
Location: Lincolnshire Showground / “Lincoln Showground”, Lincoln, United Kingdom. The structure was a temporary grandstand or raised bleacher-style seating under a marquee / “Big Top”.
Address reference: Current official and institutional venue sources give Grange-de-Lings, Lincoln, LN2 2NA. This is present-day venue location support, not an incident-era access point.
Short Summary
Temporary Grandstand Collapse
During Grapevine on 29 August 2004, a section of temporary grandstand / bleacher seating collapsed while Delirious? were performing or leading worship in the Big Top or marquee at Lincolnshire Showground.
No source reviewed reported any deaths. Injury figures conflict between roughly 16, 21, and 25–30 / around 30.
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Conflicting Information
The injury count, Big Top attendance and severity wording vary across sources.
Sources reviewed conflict between 16, 21, and 25–30 / around 30 injured.
Reported “around 30” injured and said between 25 and 30 suffered cuts, bruises and fractures.
Cross Rhythms reported 21 injured. Delirious.org.uk reported four serious injuries plus “a dozen” minor injuries, implying 16.
No single final official casualty total was verified in the supplied material.
Sources give different figures for the number present when the seating collapsed.
Said the accident occurred as around 4,000 people were singing and praying.
The Guardian said around 4,800 were in the big top. Delirious.org.uk described a nearly full 5,000-capacity marquee.
These figures are close enough to describe a heavily occupied structure, but not precise enough to state a single confirmed number.
Sources frame injury severity differently.
Said four people were taken to hospital with serious injuries and a dozen others had minor injuries.
Said four were admitted to hospital and two were still in hospital with fractures when the event ended on 31 August 2004.
These accounts may be compatible, but they are not identical and come from different publication dates.
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The following points were not confirmed by the reviewed source material.
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