Guest lightnix Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Just spotted these pics on roadie.net :huh: This is starting to get silly :** laughs out loud **: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac500 Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 That accident looks alot more of natural causes i.e. a storm passing through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeggie Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 hmmm , messy.that'll be a bugger to clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lightnix Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Mac500 is right, I'm told that it was indeed the wind and that there was no time to strike the canvas. They're not kidding when they call Chicago "The Windy City". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparkySteve Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 I did a gig this weeken, and the stage arrived and it was a blow up one (!) and it looked like a bouncy castle turned upside down and then painted to resemble an overgrown punch and judy tent. mind you we got some good effects with the macs...the inside was white. Anyway, we left the site on thursday night... the usual north eastern rain ! and someone decided that we'd better shut the flaps at the back of tis thing (the stage) to stop the rain soaking through everything on stage. When we arrived on friday the stage (not including the decking) had shifted about two / three foot and started dragging stuff with it... we were wuite lucky we got there when we did ... I suppose... could have been quite nasty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lightnix Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 And there goes another... "On... 9th August in Nebraska at the Godstock festival just minutes after the rock band Pillar had finished its set and left the stage, a freak 70 mph gust of wind hit the festival destroying the main stage and blowing equipment, scaffolding and lights backward off the stage and into nearby power lines. Fortunately the lines, which hit a couple of stagehands, were not live due to a fuse blowing some five miles away. It is estimated that just minutes earlier the stage was crowded with about 40 people yet no one was seriously hurt." Taken from this page on the PSA website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeggie Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 why are there far fewer reported similar problems in the uk networks? -possibly from the US of A being a ridiculously large place with long wind runs all over? bad luck sparky steve. have you got any way to post an image of the stage on here as I just can't imagine a bouncy castle being a stage (yet). cheersandrew clunie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparkySteve Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 no sorry... I didn't get any pics I'll ask about though! it didn't really look that bad once the sun went down! I jus dont know who thinks up these ideas!! hmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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