It had been 100 degrees all day if the Flaming Lips able to yield the date Sunday black at Tulsa's Brady Block Party in their home state. If the sun abruptly gave way to rain torrents, and apprehension pummeled the date at 70 to 80 afar per hour, the bandage and its roadies anon cut off the electricity. A tarp blew off the top of the stage, and bassist Michael Ivins, like everybody else, began to awning his amplifier. Suddenly, the band's 15-foot video awning agitated over the aback of the stage, bidding gasps from the admirers and blame Ivins to bound out of the way to abstain a adverse injury. (Watch below.)
"We were all on date thinking, 'What are we in fact traveling to do, here?' It was just cloudburst down rain," Ivins told Rolling Stone this morning by buzz from Oklahoma City. "Then the awning started moving. There wasn't a lot of amplitude amid the awning and an eight-foot drop. I basically had to bound over one of the legs [of the screen] to get out of the way. It was absolutely appealing crazy."
Nobody was aching in the accident, which Ivins and Scott Booker, the band's manager, abhorrent on unexpected, acute acclimate rather than apostle or area negligence. But it was alone the latest in a contempo beck of advancing incidents involving burst stages or accessories at alfresco shows. Assurance inspectors in Canada filed accuse on July 29th adjoin companies who ran 2009's Big Valley Jamboree anniversary in Alberta, Canada, area 35-year-old Donna Moore was ashamed to afterlife and 75 others were afflicted from falling axle during an acute storm. On July 17th, during Cheap Trick's achievement at the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest in Canada, apprehension aerated up so bound that the roof fell on the stage, almost missing injuries to associates of the bandage and bags of humans in the crowd.
Afterwards, Cheap Trick abhorrent the stage's builder, Groupe Berger, and annulled a consecutive concert in Vancouver that had architecture by the aforementioned company. (Groupe Berger has abhorrent the adventure on bad weather; the Ontario Ministry of Labor is investigating.) "We artlessly wish to know: what are the companies and organizers accomplishing to assure the next act and the next audience?" Dave Frey, the band's manager, said in a statement. "Every act and every fan care to be allurement the aforementioned catechism if accessory an alfresco agreeable event."
Other arresting managers, however, assert stages are safe and admirers accept little to abhorrence at alfresco concerts. "The regulations accept become abundant added difficult. Health and assurance accept become abundant added a agency in everybody's account in the endure 10 to 15 years," says Jake Berry, assembly and abstruse administrator for U2's 360 tour. "But some stages can authority up to a aberration wind bigger than others. You can't stop a tsunami in Japan, can you? These are acts of nature."
Ivins, the Flaming Lips' bassist, said the Tulsa video-screen collapse was unpreventable. "It was a aberration affair that happened," he said, abacus that the Lips are alive on acclimation the rolling video awning for their next anniversary gig, in Somerset, Wisconsin, in about two weeks. "Maybe the date could've been adverse a altered direction. We could accept angry the awning down, but it would apparently accept taken the accomplished date down. We try to yield as abounding precautions as we can, all the time. It's just sometimes there's being out of your control. You just never apperceive what's traveling to happen."
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