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
News By | 27 June 2016
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 never in my life seen rain that heavy, and everyone was saying that.”
The decision was made to cancel the final two days of Southside in the early hours of Saturday morning (Rammstein headlined Friday 24 June, which went ahead as planned), by which time everyone…
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