Southside cancelled: ‘I’ve never seen rain like it’

FKP Scorpio was forced to axe its first festival in 25 years after Southside was hit by severe downpours and winds of over 60mph, with Hurricane also affected

The White Stage becomes the Wet Stage at Hurricane 2016 © Folkert Koopmans

It was a nightmare weekend for FKP Scorpio after severe storms forced the partial cancellation of two of its German festivals.

Sister events Southside and Hurricane – which take place nearly 500 miles apart, in Tuttlingen and Scheessel, respectively – were both affected by inclement weather, with Southside the worst hit: FKP Scorpio CEO Folkert Koopmans tells IQ the site was underwater by Friday night, “with all the offices flooded, the backstage area flooded, the stages damaged, all the bars damaged…

“I had…

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