Stage Collapse Forces ALICE COOPER/SCORPIONS Concert Cancelation
June 20, 2009According to MosNews.com, tonight's (June 20) Monsters Of Rock concert in Novosibirsk, Russia was canceled after the stage collapsed a few hours before the show was supposed to start.
The concert in Novosibirsk was to feature such international rock acts as ALICE COOPER, SCORPIONS, THE RASMUS and KINGDOM COME.
"The bulky musical and lighting equipment that all the participants have brought along must have been too heavy, and the metallic support beams just gave way," workers who discovered the collapsed stage early morning June 20 told Interfax.
No injuries were reported, but some music gear already installed on the stage was substantially damaged.
12,000 tickets — priced between one and eight thousand rubles ($32.00 and $256.00) each — were sold for the event.
The damage resulting from the stage collapse has been estimated by the Monsters Of Rock festival organizers to be as high as 20 million rubles (more than $645,000).
The next show on the Monsters Of Rock tour is scheduled to take place in another Siberian city, Krasnoyarsk. From there the festival participants are expected to proceed to Murmansk, in the extreme northwest part of Russia, then Volgograd on the Volga river, and wrap up the tour with a concert in Moscow on June 28, at the Olimpiysky sports complex.
Photo below courtesy of RussiaToday.com
Russian TV report on Monsters Of Rock tour's arrival in Rostov for a June 16, 2009 concert:
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