What is happening at Heineken Festival!?

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  • svanzon
    svanzon Posts: 28
    I hope everyone's alright :( take care
    13/06/2007 - Katowice, Poland

    ... may there be many more to come
  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    Fuckin' Europeans and all their festivals. :D A U.S. stadium tour would fix this...

    But in all seriousness I really hope everyone is okay over there. That really sucks what happened.
  • brokenarrow
    brokenarrow Posts: 478
    Sending positive thoughts to everyone who was injured.
  • jnine
    jnine Posts: 43
    Aren't there usually people in those towers working the lighting, etc.? I would think they would be the ones who were hurt the most. I wonder if MCR's crew was injured?
  • Mrs.Vedder78
    Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    breadshe wrote:
    Some images:

    http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/cronaca/foto-jammin/1.html


    Thanks for posting the pics.

    I really hope those people that ended up in the hospital recover soon. This sucks :(
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  • Kirkwood
    Kirkwood Posts: 228
    I can just imagine this happened a couple of hour later when linkin park and pearl jam would have played. Twice the people and the chaos the probally would have followed. So pretty lucky that it wasn´t worse
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  • tinorangi
    tinorangi Posts: 5
    Just drove from the UK to see the acts and was so looking forward to that day. we were huddled in our half tent and the MCR banner had been lowered when all hell started to break loose. we were about 20 feet from one of thetowers and didnt even hear it fall down the storm was so loud if we hadbeen closer and huddled in our tent we wouldnt have known anything coming down until it hit. all we could see were people fleeing from the front of the stage as the hail stones started to fall. The crowd did behave realy well when asked to leave, im just so gutted it happened, i think if the stands had been put togethether better they would have stood up to the storm. there were two stands still upright so obviously they had been put up more securely than the rest. Im greatfull know one was seriously injured. its so frustrating and its not like you can realy take it out on anyone, youve just got to build a bridge and get over it. grrrrrrr
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Terrible luck on you lot there, hope you're all well and not too pissed off. I been looking at the pics, and I have to say that tower looks pretty flimsy. I was at Festimad in Madrid last week, and was there early and was impressed with how proffessional the whole set up was, thinking back to that sound tower in Madrid I'm pretty sure it would have stood up to that storm. Then again, whoknows for sure? But it was a lot stronger looking structure than that twisted heap in Venice. I had text from Pegasus this morning, her and her gang are all fine and on route to Vienna. Get home safe all of you
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    I heard from Barbara and her crowd yesterday that they're all ok. Sorry I couldn't get online before this. I presume she would have been with Pegasus and Einat anyway.

    She told me I have to change my user name now :D and that the sun had come out so they were going to the pub.
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  • balwal78
    balwal78 Posts: 74
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ogVZErEloSk

    If it's hot and humid and storm clouds are approaching there is a very good chance that the t-storms mean business.

    That video looks like it was taken minutes before the winds blew in...I wish people were reading the sky conditions a bit more.
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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    other than that, how was the show?
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Mine
    Mine Posts: 556
    balwal78 wrote:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ogVZErEloSk

    If it's hot and humid and storm clouds are approaching there is a very good chance that the t-storms mean business.

    That video looks like it was taken minutes before the winds blew in...I wish people were reading the sky conditions a bit more.

    Here it was already starting.

    I varied trough the day, just minutes before the rain stated the sun was burning. We've looked for a safe place as the first rain drops fell but as the storm got more violent some of the tents that were the only place to hide started to collapse and than the problems hide. Some people were lucky and went in the toillets, i was between 2 toiliets and everything went very well form me.
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