What is happening at Heineken Festival!?

romybian

peeps wrote:

looking on the bright side, they probably won't play alive for a while.

c'mon, it's been 7 years, you know it's funny.

Not.

josevolution

ass ...jokes don't go over to well at times like these ....

Robot Boy

NME have just reported:

"Damage caused by the weather has occurred throughout the site, and many bands are waiting to see if their equipment is salvageable. It is possible that damage caused could effect future dates by the bands involved.

The event, which was due to feature the likes of My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Linkin Park and headliners Pearl Jam, has been suspended for the day. "

http://www.nme.com/news/29000

However I think it's unlikely PJs stage gear would have been in harms way as it's most likely it was in trucks behind the main stage...however they may have had their own lighting set up already as they were headlining, as they did at Reading last year :-(

yahamita

Is Lydia and Patrick ok??? If you guys are on the boards, send a message home so we know you are safe!

LukinTimer

At least they have a few days before the London show to get things worked out. Thankfully no one is seriously injured.

Really wacky weather. My friends at the show said it was hot as hell, then it rained really hard for a bit.. then eased up -- then bam... 3 huge wind gusts blew threw the venue. They were right in front of the stage... so didn't see too much of the chaos, which was near the back where the towers fell.

They are, of course, disappointed to not see the show, but very happy that most everyone is okay.

Robot Boy wrote:

NME have just reported:

"Damage caused by the weather has occurred throughout the site, and many bands are waiting to see if their equipment is salvageable. It is possible that damage caused could effect future dates by the bands involved.

The event, which was due to feature the likes of My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Linkin Park and headliners Pearl Jam, has been suspended for the day. "

http://www.nme.com/news/29000

However I think it's unlikely PJs stage gear would have been in harms way as it's most likely it was in trucks behind the main stage...however they may have had their own lighting set up already as they were headlining, as they did at Reading last year :-(

Dan1984

LukinTimer wrote:

I just heard from 1Vedhead who is there.

Evidently some crazy weather hit. Heat, then rain, then finally massive wind gusts with hail. The gusts knocked over some lighting and speaker towers - which fell on people. So, some people have been hurt. I could hear sirens in the background as we talked. This all happened as My Chemical Romance was getting ready to take the stage. No stages collapsed, but banners and things have fallen and are blowing around.

Riot Police we're brought in to move the crowds out... but nothing too crazy has happened with them.

Right now, they are hanging tough, trying to find out what's going on... holding out for PJ.

This is a typical Phoenix monsoon storm. The wind gusts (dust storms) can be, and often are, very bad and with very heavy rain following, not to mention the lightning. The good news is they are generally short storms but very powerful.

I just hope that the injuries are at a minimal and are not serious. This is not what they had in mind when they walked out the door very excited about seeing their favorite band. I am sure everyone is helping each other out there. That is what this Pearl Jam family is all about!

Niko80

Someone om rm bord who is there reports that at least one has died.....

Hopefully, he or she has been given wrong information!

parel jam

Niko80 wrote:

Someone om rm bord who is there reports that at least one has died.....

Hopefully, he or she has been given wrong information!

Hope it's misinformation.

breadshe

Niko80 wrote:

Someone om rm bord who is there reports that at least one has died.....

Hopefully, he or she has been given wrong information!

No one died and no one is seriously injured.
These are official information, there is no reason to doubt about them.

trammeus

parel jam wrote:

Hope it's misinformation.

It is.
About 30 injuried, no one with life risk.

parel jam

trammeus wrote:

It is.
About 30 injuried, no one with life risk.

30 injured already?? I thought it was about 10 people...

breadshe

parel jam wrote:

30 injured already?? I thought it was about 10 people...

Ten people are injured (i.e. they are at hospital, I think). The others was only little hurt.

bertan

EddieWouldKnow wrote:

You guys arent going to believe this shit.....
My sister and missed our connecting to Venice from London this morning and I begged every airline to get us there today.....no dice.

After 5 hours at the airport we finally get to our hotel in London (practically in tears because we are going to miss the show)and I read this...........

Crazy right?

I truly hope everyone is ok...

Peace
~L~

same here, belgian airport staff decided to go on strike this morning and all flights were cancelled, including my venice flight. i've been trying to go to venice all day and finally gave up and stayed in paris. then heard these news. i guess you should stop pushing somethings if they are just not happening.

i hope everyone is ok.

yahamita

I love how the pot gets stirred when it comes to info...Just like the news coverage we get on TV..

Ms. Haiku

Niko80 wrote:

Someone om rm bord who is there reports that at least one has died.....

Hopefully, he or she has been given wrong information!

If someone decided to start a rumor like that, it's pretty evil. Here we are given official reports that no one is seriously injured, and there is no reason not to believe it.

For this reason whoever posted something on rm that someone posted probably on another board that someone thought that someone might have seen, that maybe happened, that someone died, is totally unacceptable in my opinion.

josevolution

Ms. Haiku wrote:

If someone decided to start a rumor like that, it's pretty evil. Here we are given official reports that no one is seriously injured, and there is no reason not to believe it.

For this reason whoever posted something on rm that someone posted probably on another board that someone thought that someone might have seen, that maybe happened, that someone died, is totally unacceptable in my opinion.

hear hear people should just be posting official info not rumors ....

breadshe

Latest news from TV:

22/23 people were taken to the hospital, no one is seriously injured.
it was a person from hospital staff to speak, thus the information are surely well-founded

IamMine

Wow...I'm so sorry to hear about this!

I'm glad it didn't get worse - deaths, etc...

I'm sorry many had to miss this show and I'm sure it scared PJ with their history.

I'm glad everyone is ok, though! :(

breadshe

This is the story of a witness, from the italian forum http://pearljam.forumcommunity.net/?t=7047919&st=105#lastpost

Torno ora da venezia. tutto ok. ragazzi, nn c'è stato nessuna scena di panico, almeno non dov'ero io, a ridosso della prima vasca. a mio parere le strutture erano di carta pesta. cmq l'importante è che nn ci sia nessuno in condizioni gravi. per quanto riguarda il resto una grande grande amarezza....il pubblico era tranquillissimo...è piovuto e grandinato per 10, max 15 minuti, nn più, e ha spazzato via tutte le nostre attese. io ero riparato sotto uno stand di quella maledetta birra del cazzo...è rimasto in piedi perfettamente...l'intera area è sotto sequestro per accertare responsabilità.


I've just returned from Venice, all ok for me. No panic scene, at least where i was, nearby the stage. In my opinion structures were made of papier mache. However, the important thing is that no one was seriously injured. For what concerns the rest, a big bitterness. People where very quiet, it rained for 15 mins, not more, and it flush away all our waitings [for the show]. I was under a stand of that fuckin beer [heniken], it remained up perfectly. The intere area is under attachment for clarifying responisibilities.

Niko80

Ms. Haiku wrote:

If someone decided to start a rumor like that, it's pretty evil. Here we are given official reports that no one is seriously injured, and there is no reason not to believe it.

For this reason whoever posted something on rm that someone posted probably on another board that someone thought that someone might have seen, that maybe happened, that someone died, is totally unacceptable in my opinion.

Apparently, he got the information from someone who spoke italien. Anyway, he soon edited his post to the death being unconfirmed. People speaking in different languages can often result in confusion. I don' blame the guy for writing this. He just reported what an italien person told him.

Im glad to hear that no one lost their lives!