KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 -- The Neon Music Festival 2025 (NMF2025) closed its curtains spectacularly as a crowd of over 10,000 thronged KL Base, Bandar Malaysia in Sungai Besi over the weekend.

The festival which took place on April 11 was the first local EDM music festival to take place since the Pinkfish Countdown 2024 New Year's Eve tragedy, which saw four deaths and three more hospitalised after exhibiting symptoms from drug intake.

The tragedy also led Selangor police to temporarily suspend the approval of concert permits in the state, as previously reported.

And that was not the only case of drug-related deaths at music festivals in Malaysia.

In 2014, six people died due to drug intake and suffocation during the Future Music Festi...