Bas Smit and Nicolette van Dam are being chased by an angry mob of people who demand their money back. Where should they get that back? “Maybe at Brasserie Van Dam! Or turn on ANGRY!”
Private boss Evert Sankrediets thinks it is clear that Bas Smit and Nicolette van Dam are not suitable for organizing a major event. Their Amsterdam Summer concert on Saturday, which attracted about 25,000 people, was a complete fiasco. It will go down in the history books as a kind of Dutch Fyre Festival.
‘Amateurs!’
Evert thinks the two are really terrible amateurs. “It is a profession to organize such a huge event. It’s like throwing a birthday party for a hundred people and you get two cans and a bottle of wine. A lot went wrong. They blame it on staff who didn’t show up, but if they had been there, everything would have been up even earlier.”
Apparently there were staff available to remove critical comments from Instagram. “What did have staff for was keeping the site up to date, because in the beginning all negative reactions were all erased. You saw people like: ‘Where did my message go?’ They gave up on that at some point.”
Presenter Tooske Ragas summarizes it Show news: “It just failed.”
‘Panic on the field’
It was really chaos, Bas himself agrees in RTL Boulevard. He said there was ‘panic on the field’. Some visitors have even feared for their lives. “That iron scaffolding went really bizarrely back and forth when we were guided over it as a herd of animals, all really bizarre,” says Geoffrey on the Amsterdam Summer Insta.
Visitors speak of ‘rickety scaffolding stairs’. Geoffrey: “This event could have resulted in a bizarre number of victims. Just life-threatening.”
And someone else: “Sorry, but what a mess it was yesterday!! I felt unsafe in the huge crowds! There were too many people and too little security!! This could have gone horribly wrong.”
bag fillers
Most visitors complain about long queues for food and drinks, but according to Mariska it went much further. “Large crowds of people suddenly moved, wobbly metal stairs that seemed to collapse, no more drinks at 9 p.m.,” she sums up. “And not to mention the crazy amount we lost. Never again!”
The crowd is crying, while Bas and Nicolette laugh: their pockets are now packed. Marcel: “You have filled your pockets and the first 25,000 people have been lifted by you. SYWERT VAN LIENDEN sometimes a cousin or something? Come with compensation for all the people on the field who had to endure this disastrous evening.”
‘Compensation!’
That call for compensation comes from many. The victims want their money back. Cactus: “There must be compensation for everyone who has been there. Ticket prices disproportionate to what happened.”
Tessa is furious about Bas and Nicolette’s statement. “Nice and easy, sorry and on. That is of no use to us at all, what do you think of fair compensation?!”
Sjoerd: “It seems that you wanted to earn as much money as possible without investing maximum in the event.”
Lisa: “Bas, Nicolette, there must be something in return??? “
Glenn: “Give us half of the ticket back!”
And Jerry: “Is anything known about the compensation for Saturday? Or are those people no longer interesting because they have already spent their money?”
To the brasserie?
People are wondering how to make a claim for compensation. “I would like my money back. Where can I arrange this?”, asks Dola.
Ber advises her to go to Bas and Nicolette’s catering tent. “Dam brasserie!”
And one Eva: “SEND ANGRY a message.”
Nicolette responds in RTL Boulevard: “It is force majeure and we had no control over it. Perhaps we should have estimated it differently. We also have to point to ourselves and think: if only we had deployed a double number of people in terms of personnel. It is now what it is. We will evaluate with the team. We will look for a suitable solution.”
