Creamfields organisers speak on freak storm

As reported on ITM last week, a freak thunderstorm caused havoc at Creamfields Central Europe recently, terrifying Sebastian Leger as he played to thousands of happy revellers at 9.15pm on the main stage. The tech-house DJ recorded the sudden arrival of the tornado type storm at Braclav Airport, Czech Republic, by chance on his camera phone and described cutting his arm as he narrowly avoided being crushed by a falling speaker stack.

Creamfields organisers agreed that the storm caused chaos, though told Skrufff that the event continued in abridged form until late the next morning. “At 21.15 the storm swept the event away; 5,000 people ran away and the rest (some 2,000 revellers) spent the night in 5 tents (Intel Techno stage, Red Zone, Metro Studio 54 VIP stage, Kiss Stage and Seat Zone) where the party was going till 8 in the morning and the atmosphere was great,” they said.

“The main two stages were stopped by technicians, because the construction was weakened by winds of 26 m/sec and the electricity wasn’t safe and because of that we asked the artists who were on the program here to stay at the hotels, specifically John Digweed and Sasha in Le Meridien, Vienna, and the bands from the Live stage in Hotel International, Brno. We also contacted Ferry Corsten´s management to cancel the outbound flight of his private jet from the Netherlands,” they said. “Nobody was hurt, nobody died and there was no major damage to equipment,” they added.

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batersrant says...

on July 21st, 2008

"We also contacted Ferry Corsten´s management to cancel the outbound flight of his private jet from the Netherlands” - F**k me how good is that... Ferry's obviously done pretty well for himself.

scottyk82 says...

on July 23rd, 2008

duh

haydn81 says...

on July 25th, 2008

haha...wish i was there...better luck next time ay ? whatever..

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