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Will this be the end of Lucy’s EDM career?

One of EDM’s favourite performers, Lucy Hockey, has released news about taking a ‘break’ from the music industry after an unseen end to her world tour!

Lucy Hockey posted a statement on her Instagram story on Tuesday evening reading “I need time for myself, I love you all”. This immediately caught the attention of her 4.5million fans.

It is confirmed from further statements that Lucy was forced to take time away from her career to focus on herself due to recent events which dramatically impacted her mental health. Hockey recently toured worldwide with her latest album ‘firefly’, which was her biggest hit yet. This tour had sky high sales and sold out within 3 hours of ticket release. The EDM artist spent 4 months touring starting in LA, USA and finishing her tour in Manchester, UK. Although the ending to this tour took an unexpected turn after Lucy performed in the O2 Arena, London where an uncontrolled crowd had a devastating impact on one fan.

A young fan of Lucy’s, 17, is said to have been awaiting the star’s arrival onstage from 3 hours before the event in order to secure her prime position at the front of the crowd. During the performance the very few security guards positioned at the front of the stage began to notice the crowd pressing forwards towards the front of the barricades. They are said to have informed Lucy Hockey mid-performance but no action was taken to aid this situation at the time, a further 20 minutes later one of the bouncers noticed a girl resting over the barricade at the front of the crowd that appeared to be unconscious. The young 17 year old was immediately removed from the crowd and was later found to have severe bruising from being aggressively pushed up against the barriers; she is now in a stable condition In Royal London Hospital. The concert bouncer when interviewed said, “We could see distress throughout the crowd but these surges are very hard to control and often end in tragedy’s, most people got away lucky”. The tour was then cut off early, letting down thousands of fans who had purchased tickets for the final performances in Birmingham and Manchester later that week.

After this event, Lucy received uncontrollable amounts of backlash across all social media platforms pushing blame onto the artist herself for what had happened. This backlash increased after Hockey was un-active on her social media platforms for 3 days following the event. ‘Fans’ were seen to be commenting calling the DJ  ‘selfish’ and ‘killer’ although it is confirmed that nobody was killed from this event. It was on Tuesday that Lucy made a return to Instagram and posted her news that she would be taking a break from her career to focus on herself. When interviewed the star explained ” I am devastated and am working closely with the family affected by this tragedy, I cannot begin to apologise and will be taking a break from the spotlight to focus on myself”.

Lucy Hockey’s family have also expressed how quickly and severely this has affected her mental and physical health. Her mum, Debbie, spoke about how fans or followers of artists forget that the stars they look up to have the same emotions as anyone else and are affected by hate in the same way as anyone. She added that people need to think before aggressively commenting on people’s social media as their negative words stand out against any positivity. Debbie said – “Lucy’s fans are the most important part of her music to her, she would never ignore a tragedy like this on purpose and people need to look into the situation more before being abusive online”.

The EDM performer already had plans to attend multiple music festivals this summer including Reading, Leeds and Creamfields although it is unclear whether she will continue to attend these events or return in the future at all.

Loyal fans are showing their sympathy for this young artist, just 4 months after her newest album was released which is what had brought her to the attention of the EDM world in the first place. One fan added “Lucy had just begun to grow and it’s a shame for her to have a setback this early on, I think people are being harsh on a situation which was out of her control”.

-Abi Stephens (overload)

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Will this be the end of Luce’s EDM career?

One of EDM’s favourite performers, Luce, has released news about taking a ‘break’ from the music industry after an unexpected end to her world tour!

Lucy Hockey, otherwise known as LUCE, posted a statement on her Instagram story on Tuesday evening reading “I need time for myself, I love you all”. This immediately caught the attention of her 4.5million followers who posted an avalanche of shocked replies to this news.

It is confirmed from further statements that Luce was forced to take time away from her career to focus on herself due to recent events which dramatically impacted her mental health. Lucy recently toured worldwide with her latest album “Firefly”, which was her biggest hit yet. This tour had sky high sales and sold out within 3 hours of ticket release. The EDM artist spent 4 months touring starting in Los Angeles, USA and finishing her tour in London, UK. Although the ending to this tour took an unexpected turn after Lucy performed in the O2 Arena, London where an uncontrolled crowd had a devastating impact on one fan.

A young fan of Luce’s, 17, is said to have been awaiting the star’s arrival onstage from 3 hours prior to the event in order to secure her prime position at the front of the crowd. During the performance the very few security guards positioned at the front of the stage began to notice the crowd pressing forwards towards the front of the barricades. They are said to have informed the star mid-performance but no action was taken to aid this situation at the time, a further 20 minutes later one of the bouncers noticed a girl resting over the barricade at the front of the crowd in a state that appeared to be unconscious. The young 17 year old was immediately removed from the crowd and was later found to have severe bruising from being aggressively pushed up against the barriers; she is now in a stable condition In Royal London Hospital. The concert bouncer when interviewed said, “We could see distress throughout the crowd but these surges are very hard to control and often end in tragedy, most people got away lucky”. The tour was then cut off early, letting down thousands of fans who had purchased tickets for the final performances in Birmingham and Manchester later that week.

After this event, Luce received uncontrollable amounts of backlash across all social media platforms pushing blame onto the artist herself for what had happened. This backlash increased after Hockey was inactive on her social media platforms for 3 days following the event. ‘Fans’ were seen to be commenting calling the DJ names like ‘selfish’ and ‘killer’ although it is confirmed that nobody was killed from this event. It was on Tuesday that Lucy made a return to Instagram and posted her news that she would be taking a break from her career to focus on herself. When interviewed the star explained ” I am devastated and am working closely with the family affected by this tragedy, I cannot begin to apologise and will be taking a break from the spotlight to focus on myself “.

Luce’s family have also expressed how quickly and severely this has affected her mental and physical health. Her mum, Debbie, spoke about how fans or followers of artists forget that the stars they look up to have the same emotions as anyone else and are affected by hate in the same way as anyone. She added that people need to think before aggressively commenting on people’s social media as their negative words stand out against any positivity. Debbie said – “Lucy’s fans are the most important part of her music to her, she would never ignore a tragedy like this on purpose and people need to look into the situation more before being abusive online”.

The EDM performer already had plans to attend multiple music festivals this summer including the sold out events Reading, Leeds and Creamfields although it is unclear whether she will continue to attend these events or return in the future at all.

Loyal fans are showing their sympathy for this young artist, just 4 months after her newest album was released which is what had brought her to the attention of the EDM world in the first place. One fan added “Luce had just begun to grow and it’s a shame for her to have a setback this early on, I think people are being harsh on a situation which was out of her control”.

The future for this upcoming EDM star is unknown ,everyone is unsure of the impact this has had so early on in her career and whether the spotlight is for her!

-Abi Stephens (overload)

MP3 recording of my second draft:

Targets for myself based of this recording:

• I am not completely happy with the name of my EDM artist ‘Luce’ and not sure if all of the abbreviations of her name are confusing.
• There are also definitely elements in this article which I would like to improve making it easier to read for my magazine and things which I could have written in a better way