El incidente de Orri en Colmena

Hace más de una semana que concluyó el accidentado festival llamado Colmena. Está por demás decir lo que ocurrio superficialmente, ya que para descubrir lo ocurrido internamente, 2Abejas y LiveTours emitieron sus respectivos comunicados en los cuales explican los obstáculos que impidieron una plena realización del festival. Hoy, a casí 10 días de celebrado el evento, un aviso por parte de Sigur Rós Management apareció en la red en la cual describen la cadena de eventos que, según ellos, están convirtiendo esta gira en una única y con muy pocos objetivos de agenda cumplidos. Aquí unos fragmentos del comunicado que pueden leer aquí:

“…Where to start? What a short strange trip it’s been already. Friday the 13th seems somehow appropriate given what’s occurred in the days since leaving rehearsals in Iceland a week and a half ago. One thing’s for sure, very little has gone to plan.

Things started to drift before we even left the ground. The Mexican work visas didn’t come through in time, meaning that the chance of doing two shows In Guadalajara was whittled down to one show, while our passports were flown to Mexico City to get the necessary paperwork. On top of that the show in Tijuana finally fell off its wobbly perch when it became clear that there was no safe way to get our gear from Mexico City (over 3,000kms away) in the 24 hours between shows….”

“…We make a visit to the site where we are playing. It is spectacular in the extreme but it is slightly concerning that even with the minor traffic of getting band and crew down there seems to overload the local infrastructure. Tomorrow six thousand people are going to try and get down this same single muddy track…”

“…Promoter Pablo goes onstage and explains to people in Spanish that shit is going down and the band are going to do what they can under the circumstances. I stay with Orri in the ambulance while we exit the site on our way to an alternative hotel, better set up to deal with our situation, with noo fangled stuff like phones and hot water. As we leave I can just see the stage through the back window and watch as a very impressive confetti cannon goes off, blasting gold glitter high into the night sky. it seems strangely anachronistic given the sombre scenario we are now confronting. Turns out that is the last we will see of the rest of the band for three days…”