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More Deaths as Another Stage Collapses at Belgian Festival Featuring 30 Seconds To Mars, Foo Fighters

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Max Kakacek, Colby Hewitt, Cullen Omori and Cameron Omori perform at Bowery Ballroom on April 25, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Cory Schwartz/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Max Kakacek;Colby Hewitt;Cullen Omori;Cameron Omori;
Hollywood Reporter – Early reports out of Belgium and Holland Thursday are claiming that six people were killed and others injured as a tent collapsed at an annual music festival called Pukkelpop.
The BBC is now reporting four were killed, details are still emerging as to number of dead and injured.
According to Holland’s Trouw.com, one of the tents where a band was playing was blown down after a storm, resulting in chaos and injuries.
Per Belgian radio station Studio Brussel, ambulances have been in and out of the festival and the remainder of today’s festival has been canceled.
The sudden storm Thursday caused the Chateau Tent, where American band Smith Westerns played, or were about to play, to collapse. The band wrote on Twitter: “Stage collapsed max almost got crushed by the tress, I hope pukkelpop has insurance bc all our [stuff] is broke.”
A brief but fierce storm produced strong winds and large hail which brought down trees, per reports. Additionally, a sound tower beside the main stage came loose.
The annual festival’s lineup this year includes many American bands, including 30 Seconds to Mars, Foo Fighters and Rise Against.
Jared Leto tweeted that “four stages were down” and that it was “still raining” Thursday from the festival. “Be safe,” he added.
Kanye West Falls On Stage in Norway!
Kanye West, the usually very un-clumsy, took a very big fall on stage in Bergen, Norway the other night. Nice to see this guy go down. Granted, I love his music; I just do not care for him personally.
Kanye West Booed at Music Fest After He Compares Himself to Hitler
The Hollywood Reporter - Kanye West was met with boos at the Big Chill music fest in England Saturday night.
“I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I’m [expletive] insane, like I’m Hitler,” he said on stage, according to the Associated Press as the audience booed. “One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.”
West also defended his “Monster,” music video, which features girls hanging from their necks and cannibalism.
“Who saw the video before it got banned, before they took it down and before women’s groups starting saying that a person that lost the most important woman in his life is now against women in some way?” asked West, referring to the 2007 death of his mother Donda West.
West apologized for starting 30 minutes late, saying, “Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much [expletive] going on in music right now and somebody has to make a [expletive] difference,” he said.
West closed his show by paying tribute to Amy Winehouse. He spoke about meeting her during Paris fashion week, and played a few moments from her songs “Tears Dry on Their Own” and “Back to Black.” He called her “beautiful” and “amazing.”
But West closed his show on a positive note by paying tribute to Amy Winehouse.
But then he added, “Thank you for protecting your artists that are still here. This is for [Alexander] McQueen, for Amy, for Michael and for all the media, can you lighten up on all your artists that are still here?”
The crowd, which had booed him earlier, cheered and applauded.
This isn’t the first time the rapper has been met with boos. He was booed at a Chicago Bulls basketball game in February, at the 2010 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when he stormed the stage to protest Taylor Swift beating out Beyonce.
- The Associated Press contributed to this report.


