{"id":1358,"date":"2009-06-21T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/blogNew\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2010-05-03T21:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T03:40:58","slug":"stage-collapsed-before-novosibirsk-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"STAGE COLLAPSED BEFORE NOVOSIBIRSK SHOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosnews.com\/world\/2009\/06\/20\/2379\/\" target=\"_blank\">MosNews.com<\/a>, tonight&#8217;s (June 20) Monsters Of Rock <a class=\"iAs\" style=\"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal! important; FONT-SIZE: 100%! important; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px! important; COLOR: darkgreen! important; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent! important; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadrunnerrecords.com\/blabbermouth.net\/news.aspx?mode=Article&amp;newsitemID=122284#\" target=\"_blank\" itxtdid=\"9820476\">concert<\/a> in Novosibirsk, Russia was canceled after the stage collapsed a few hours before the show was supposed to start.The concert in Novosibirsk was to feature such international rock acts as SCORPIONS, ALICE COOPER, THE RASMUS and KINGDOM COME.&#8221;The bulky musical and lighting equipment that all the participants have brought along must have been too heavy, and the metallic support beams just gave way,&#8221; workers who discovered the collapsed stage early morning June 20 told Interfax. No injuries were reported, but some <a class=\"iAs\" style=\"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal! important; FONT-SIZE: 100%! important; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px! important; COLOR: darkgreen! important; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent! important; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadrunnerrecords.com\/blabbermouth.net\/news.aspx?mode=Article&amp;newsitemID=122284#\" target=\"_blank\" itxtdid=\"9765255\">music<\/a> gear already installed on the stage was substantially damaged. 12,000 tickets \u2014 priced between one and eight thousand rubles ($32.00 and $256.00) each \u2014 were sold for the event.The damage resulting from the stage collapse has been estimated by the Monsters Of Rock festival organizers to be as high as 20 million rubles (more than $645,000).The next show on the Monsters Of Rock tour is scheduled to take place in another Siberian city, Krasnoyarsk. From there the festival participants are expected to proceed to Murmansk, in the extreme northwest part of Russia, then Volgograd on the Volga river, and wrap up the tour with a concert in Moscow on June 28, at the Olimpiysky sports complex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nsk.kp.ru\/photo\/gallery\/16145\/\">http:\/\/nsk.kp.ru\/photo\/gallery\/16145\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MosNews.com, tonight&#8217;s (June 20) Monsters Of Rock concert in Novosibirsk, Russia was canceled after the stage collapsed a few hours before the show was supposed to start.The concert in Novosibirsk was to feature such international rock acts as SCORPIONS, ALICE COOPER, THE RASMUS and KINGDOM COME.&#8221;The bulky musical and lighting equipment that all [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}