Europe's Fyre Festival: Anarchy as tens of thousands of hip hop fans descend on sleepy Belgian [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 30, 2019 | George Martin

[C19fan]

British festival-goers have been left outraged after a Belgian music festival was cancelled at the last minute.

Security concerns were ostensibly the reason behind the cancellation of the VestiVille festival in Belgium on Friday, though local officials have launched a fraud investigation.

Several Brits travelled hundreds of miles to the town of Lommel for the event only to find it was cancelled just hours before it was due to begin.

[DoodleBob]

I will go to a football stadium to catch say Guns n Roses or The Who or Yankee Stadium for Big Four. In part that's because the venues where those shows are held are designed to handle that kind of volume and demands. I am equally not afraid of a local bar or 200-300 capacity venue showcasing new bands...many will suck, but you get a good one frequently enough to warrant leaving home and creature comforts.

I also like a live show, the excitement of which is rarely captured in a video or live stream - as Pete Townshend said "We all go to rock concerts to lose ourselves, to discover real abandonment. Once we lose ourselves we ironically find our REAL selves."

[VietVet876]

It was black until they migrated west.

[jocon307]

Did not know this, interesting.