I got born again yesterday
 

Don't know if you've already heard about this ... there was a fatal disaster on the annual Pohoda festival, biggest summer music festival in Slovakia yesterday. the brief yet powerful windstorm caused the marquee tent to collapse and cover the people that were currently underneath the tent watching a band play. The metal construction holding the marquee together fell all apart and killed one young fella and injured about 50 people. I was there too, one of the huge metal poles fell about 1 meter from me and my friends. I'm glad I'm still alive.

http://www.reuters.com/article/enter...56H2TD20090718

Poor lad. There was no thought before of canceling the show? Was the windstorm that sudden?

Glad you're OK, slavo.

glad to hear you're ok

Jesus Christ, that's horrible. Glad to hear you're OK slavo, but tragic that someone hsa died because of this.

shit. glad you're okay.

Damn, glad you're alright! Hope you didn't have to watch or hear anyone get killed close by.

I heard the festival boss made an announcement to cancel all the upcoming shows in the time range of 4pm to 6pm, just to make the storm pass by. the bad thing is that this announcement has been made after this concert had begun and the intention was to make them finish their set. i don't know, i'm just guessing.
anyway, it was brutal to crawl outside from the collapsed tent and watch people covered in blood lie on the ground, even before the ambulance cars came in to help.

and we here would have never known

Damn...I'm glad you're ok, but I'm sad about the bad news(obviously)...when something that bad happens in a place where people is just supposed to have fun and be happy it's even worse.

Sounds pretty much like what happened a couple years ago here in italy, no big tents involved but the 6 HUGE metal constuctions for the speakers collapsed during a 30 minutes windstorm at the biggest summer festival we have...30 injured, no deads just out of pure luck because people started searching for shelter under the big tents and other construction seconds before the towers went down...

damn that's terrible. glad to know you're okay slavo. but awful news nonetheless.

Glad you're ok.

I just found a video documenting the last seconds until it happened. Quite disturbing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ob4c...layer_embedded

The good news is, you weren't harmed. The bad news is...everything else.

dang mang.

fucked up man. live everyday as if it is yr last. NO REGRETS!!!

what band were you watching?

United Flavour (reggae, Czech republic) + A.M.O. (hip-hop, Slovakia)
nothing interesting.

they'll be claiming they brought the place down, i'm sure

the psonic gawd loves you.

harrowed be Her Name.

praises to Dyscordia.

fuck.

you're lucky!

!

glad you're okay!!

that is pretty awful though. fucked up that the rigging is so poor, tbh.

That's really lucky man, glad you're ok.

Look at this ... this is a footage of how the place went down.

Horrible.

If I was God and I saw a tent full of people listening to Czech reggae I don't think I'd be able to resist the urge to smite them either.

haha, spot on.
Slovakian hip-hop ain't anything spectacular either, trust me.

Damn, I wish I could rep you for that, T&B.

That Slovak hip hop track suffers because the musical backing is pretty boring, and the beats are way too soft.

WOW!

I'm glad you're okay

yeah that was horrible
glad you're right.

Was it right after the announcement not to eat the brown kolachis?

it's "koláče" (read: kohl-ah-cheh)

hot damn slavo, i thought this was some sorry jesus shit.

good to hear you're ok.

Ugh, just imagine being found dead at their show! :(

Glad you were spared such fate, we can have a celebratory pint at ATP. If the roof crashes down at Butlins, at least it'll be during Sonic Youth.

^agreed.
horrible tho really. glad ur safe slavo.

Jesus man, thats terrorfying. So glad your festival-going days go on! :)

or, i'm gonna get me a hearing aid gadget and spend all the gig time outside of the tents.