“We almost cried, it was horrible”: the first festival that the attendees landed in Tomorrowland, Belgium, were in shock on Thursday the day after the gigantic fire that destroyed the main scene of this electro event with monsters assistance.
On Thursday at noon, about twenty hours after the disaster whose images went around the world, there was no doubt to cancel the festival. It has another 15 podiums distributed in more than 34 hectares in Boom, in northern Belgium, and almost 40,000 people were expected to camp on the eve of the first concerts.
“Tomorrowland is a big family!
“It was too sad, we really almost cried, it was horrible,” I loose to AFP Marie arriving at the site with all her team. “But we are happy that you can celebrate anyway, we are in the atmosphere, and Tomorrowland is a great family!” He adds to this Belgian, leaving out his good humor.
Beyond the camp of the camp, the “Dreamvillage”, the uncertainty resulted in the possible access to the great space around the great stage, where dozens of Electro DJ stars are expected in the space of two weekends, until July 27.
“We spent the night working on possible solutions,” said the festival management on social networks on Thursday morning. “It is impossible to express what we feel.”
Another impossible task: identify in the networks all messages of empathy and other emojis of the broken heart sent by artists accustomed to the facilities. “It is heartbreaking,” the Gantoise Charlotte de Witte DJ reacted, an electro scene icon.
“Stay United Forever,” the Dimitri Vegas duo and like Mike, other Belgian stars on Thursday for which followers on Instagram are counted in millions. They were also supposed to act in the mega scene in front of tens of thousands of fans, such as David Guetta or lost frequencies. About 400,000 people are expected on the two weekends.
Before the fire, some of the planes specially rented for this meeting had already landed in Belgium, and the events planned in Brussels and Antwerp to accommodate the distant visitors were also maintained.
“We kept hope”
Coming from Italy with a small group, Giulio relativizes: after fire, “we have maintained hope, the festival is in spite of everything, it is better than anything,” said this thirty -many years. At the beginning of Wednesday night, the images of the fire filmed by witnesses quickly made an astronomical number of views on social networks.
We see that there is a spectacular black smoke plume as the fire began from the left of the great scene devastates its magical decoration worthy of Disneyland. He left only a scaffolding skeleton 160 meters wide by 45 high. There was no one wounded.
Witnesses have evoked detonations of pyrotechnic devices, without anyone knowing if these devices, perhaps launched as tests, are the cause of fire. Until Wednesday night, the office of the prosecutor of Antwerp announced that he had taken a investigating judge for an investigation for “involuntary fire.”
Created twenty years ago by two flamenco brothers, in a precursor country in electro music, Tomorrowland has become a reference brand in this universe, a kind of multinational party in amplified decibels.
A winter festival is held every year at the Alpe D’Huez ski resort, in France, and an edition in Brazil has also been created.
Source: BFM TV
