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19 injured at Alexisonfireshow

Thu 18th Feb, 2010 in International News

Due to land in Australia in a matter of days, Alexisonfire will be making very sure all goes smoothly at its Soundwave dates.

Performing in Vancouver on Tuesday night, the band’s set was cut short when a surge of fans caused a section of the front barrier to fall. In the ensuing crush, 19 people were injured, and nine sent to hospital – although the most serious injury was a broken leg. Understandably, the band called off the rest of the performance and the crowd dispersed.

In a post on the Alexisonfire MySpace, the band wrote: “We are sincerely sorry that people were injured. We want to thank the security team, paramedics and police for their quick reaction. We especially want to thank our fans for cooperating and not making a bad situation worse.”

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Yaki

Yaki said on the 18th Feb, 2010

Unsure whether this is heartable

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 18th Feb, 2010

Did this gig have anything to do with the Vancouver Olympics?

News services were reporting this as "another problem with the Olympics".

brittles

brittles said on the 18th Feb, 2010

I believe it did

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stantos

stantos said on the 19th Feb, 2010

closure in moscow will no longer be appearing at soundwave 2010. organisers have removed the band from the bill, revised timetables will be available shortly. read more for the organisers explanation.

it is amazing how the one band you book on the festival only as a favour to their manager; whom you are paying 10 times what they are worth as a gesture of goodwill; and you bill way above their station, turn out to be the only demanding and rude people amongst a star-studded line up.

here are some tips for other local bands hoping to keep a spot on a national festival:

1.having a band member call the festival admin manager 2 days out from the festival with a new list of demands and being aggressive, rude and yelling at her only works if you are holding hostages.

2. don't demand that festival vehicles and drivers pick band members up from their homes and then drop them off after the festival. specially if you live on an island off the gold coast!

3. don't demand that the festival should book and pay for your accommodation on top of the $25,000 you're being paid to pay for your own lodgings.

i could go on and on. maybe publish a book some day...

revised timetables will be posted shortly.