UPDATED: Tomorrowland festival to go ahead after stage burns down
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Organizers at Tomorrowland dance music festival said Thursday they spent the “night working on possible solutions” for the main stage after a fire destroyed it, confirming that the event would go ahead.
Flames engulfed the carefully designed main stage, which plays an important role in the vision of the festival, on Wednesday local time.
The electronic dance music festival is one of the biggest in the world and takes place annually in Boom, south of Antwerp, Belgium.
The doors to the festival’s campsite opened on Thursday ahead of the two-weekend event.
Videos posted to social media showed flames engulfing the elaborate set, with the local newspaper GVA reporting before 8pm that the fire appeared to be under control.
Local media outlets reported that some emergency services were already on the festival site in Boom in the province of Antwerp.
Residents living close to the festival area had been advised to keep their windows and doors closed.
No festival-goers were currently in attendance, although several employees were believed to be on-site for set up ahead of Friday’s planned opening.
Organisers say posts on social media from festival-goers claiming to have received emails saying Tomorrowland had been cancelled were “Fake news” .
The first edition of Tomorrowland took place in 2005 and last year’s event attracted 400,000 people.
