Metallica no-show kindles Chaos in India

Metallica no-show kindles Chaos in India

What was considered to be biggest and high-flying concert of the season turned into a complete fiasco when the organizers of the American heavy metal band Metallica postponed the gig which was scheduled on Friday in New Delhi, India.

Thousands of Indian fans of Metallica gathered in the outskirts of New Delhi in Gurgaon on Friday evening to witness the first ever concert of the American heavy metal band from Los Angeles. However, on citing security reasons, the organizers of the event
postponed the gig to Saturday which kindled a chaos in the facility.

Soon after the announcement, the angry Indian fans smashed the equipment worth of two hundred thousand dollars and even wretched the stage which took two months to set up. While the pictures showed piles of equipments shattered, it was also reported that
some of the people were injured in a stampede at the venue.

The American band Metallica was very disappointed with the chaos and declared in a statement late on Friday that they were excited to have their first ever concert in India.  “We are deeply disappointed with this news as we were looking forward to our first
experience in India as much as you guys were,”   

While the occurrence of the concert on Saturday evening is highly doubted after the crowd smashed almost everything at the venue, the organizers DNA Networks didn’t gave a particular reasons of rescheduling the gig.

Some fans, who were present at the venue, stated that postponement of the concert was due to broken equipment and the organizers were unable to get it fixed. "One of the front barricades was broken about 5pm. They tried to fix it for more than an hour. Then
they announced that the show was being postponed,"

According to a second report, the band was not satisfied with the backstage arrangements and they left just before the time of the concert.

The concert was part of the Formula One Grand Prix which is taking place this weekend.

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Posted by Sohaib Anwar on Oct 29 2011. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry