Cheap Trick cancel Show at stage concerns, black keys enter Saga

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cheap Trick wants you want that they - but not if it means they have to perform on the same stage as their disastrous July 17 Ottawa Bluesfest show, a concert which saw the stage to collapse around them mid - set.

Earlier this morning (August 1) on their Web site, Cheap Trick, announced that they're cancel their show September 1 at Vancouver's Pacific national exhibition because the company providing the staging in Vancouver, Mega-stage (Berger group), is the same company which managed things to Bluesfest.

"All possible solutions have been studied by the Group and the proponent and were exhausted, leaving Cheap Trick with no other choice than to to the cancel their first participation in NCB, September" the band said in a statement. "Unless the current investigations prove the contrary, the band, as a matter of principle, but more important still, as a matter of security, will not appear on a Berger scene in the future."

Tickets for the concert will be reimbursed at all points of sale.


Look at images from the scene of Ottawa Bluesfest collapsed
Related news, Billboard reported that the Black keys may have been the first group to raise concerns regarding the implementation of mega-stage where they played the stage in question for a concert, ten days before the incident, in Ottawa.

According to "sources", the duo management noticed a panel of wind beat and requested it be repaired. When the crew of the scene did not fix the Panel, from the Black Keys management of the Group of the scene until it was fixed. This news bodes for Mega-stage and the crew of hand at the Bluesfest whereas the account given to the Billboard by Machinists working the fest in Ottawa.

"The windwall on the left of the scene is not released and had tore," the roadie said. "It blew in the wind, which was about 60 miles per hour, because for one hour and stage crew has nothing about it." That probably put a strain on the structure of the scene.

There is also speculation the repairs were performed using steel cables, which makes it almost impossible to cut compared to the commonly used plastic zip ties. But Stephane Berger Group Bank Vice-President denies the presence of steel cables have been used.

"One thing that everyone needs to understand is that the wind rose from 45 kilometres per hour to mad in two minutes," he said Billboard, adding that the capacity of the structure is 120 kilometres per hour, unless the winds that have been registered to date between 140-150 kilometres per hour.

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