This mid August, several students were devastated as they found out they were unable to attend the largest paint party in the nation.

Life In Color is on an annual tour and are eminent for their ecentric dubstep-like music/genre, some of the worlds biggest DJs, and feature effects like fire shows and commendable strobe lights. With the show allowing buyers 16 and over to attend, many students were thrilled to finally attend one of the best concerts-including senior Robert Lamb.

“I’ve known about the show for a while now and have thought about going long before the year started,” Lamb said.

The Merriweather Post Pavilion has hosted several concerts alike to Life In Color, including Diplo’s Mad Decent Block Party. Mad Decent resulted with two young men, ages 17 and 20, dead due to overdose and 20 others hospitalized from similar abuses and crowd riots. The stadium has been under pressure and does not want another potential case in their hands.

The Merriweather Post Pavilion has decided to push the venue to the RFK stadium in Washington D.C. Because on the new venue’s regulations, the concert has now been accessible to only buyers 18 and over with a valid ID. The company sent the news through emails and other social media.

Students were shocked and saddened from the news.

“I was planning to go to Life In Color with a huge group of friends and we were all anticipating it,” junior Amanda Adenan said.“”I found out about the restrictions on Twitter from several angry posts. I searched it up to make sure it was true.””

“I was also planning on going with about 10 friends from AHS,” Lamb said. “I found out that the venue was switched on Twitter and because of the rules of RFK the age limit changed as well. I was really mad when I initially found out because it was really expensive and I was excited to go.”

The company returned all their money to the angry buyers. Most attendees were not mad about the expenses, but the overall rejection.

“I have always wanted to go a concert like that because I usually go to country,” Adenan said. “I think they created the rules because of the location but I think it was bad on their part to raise the age limit because they just lost a lot of profit. I’ll definitely try and go next year though!”

“Because of the situation at Mad Decent Block Party, I’m guessing the Merriweather stadium didn’t want another incident to happen with that similar genre,” Lamb said. “Eitherway, I don’t think changing the venue or age limit will stop people from doing stupid things. I’ll probably go next year if the lineup is good.”

The concert should not focus on the venue and age groups, but the contents brought in the shows.