Knocked Loose have put $8,000 into the fundraiser for Jamie Ulshoffer, who was left paralysed during their set at Louder Than Life in Louisville.
Local reports say Ulshoffer was sitting near the back of the tented stage when another attendee, who had climbed a tree nearby, fell and landed on her. She was taken to hospital, where her spinal cord was found to be severed. She is paralysed from the waist down. A GoFundMe was opened for her medical costs and for the rest of what a recovery like that takes.
Eight thousand dollars is not a settlement and nobody has called it one. It is a band from Oldham County paying into a stranger's fund in their own city, for something that happened at a festival they were playing and did not cause. What it buys against a spinal injury is a few weeks; what it says is that they were not going to leave it to the internet.