Status Quo left the venue just a few hours before the show started. The organizer cannot say what caused this situation.
Status Quo left Karjurock without performing for the public. PDO
This summer, Finns have been disappointed by cancellations and other organizational problems at several different music festivals.
Disappointments were not avoided this weekend either, because at the Karjurock festival organized in Uusiakaupunki, Saturday night’s revelers never saw a rock band Status Quo performance.
The festival organizer announced the matter on their website and Facebook account.
It appears from the publication that the British rock legend band has unexpectedly left the Karjurock festival area.
– United Festivals Oy has complied with the agreement and the performance is 100% prepaid. We are trying to resolve the matter through intermediaries, Karjurock writes in the publication.
The organizer had brought the Finnish rock band Rust ‘n Rage to the place at short notice.
The organizer commented
Promoter of Karjurock Robert Sainio commented on the cancellation to Iltalehte, saying that the band had left the festival area during the afternoon. Status Quo was scheduled to perform at 8:45 p.m. The replacement performer had arrived just a moment before the performance.
Status Quo had performed on Friday at Tampere-talo.
Sainio says that he has not spoken to the band or their background team about what happened. The investigation of the matter will continue on Monday “along official routes”.
The promoter says that he heard that, according to the band, “a few points” in the arrangements were not in order.
– I don’t sign them at all. I still can’t say what led to this, promoter Sainio commented to Iltalehte on Sunday.
According to Sainio, the organizers have followed the given articles.
– We have followed the rules and the gig’s payment policy has been taken care of, so the fact that some small nuance of the contract is slightly different is not the right reason. Those points are so childish that I won’t even begin to go through them.
Status Quo band was founded in 1962. PDO
The organizer states that Status Quo fans came to the festival to watch the band’s concert. The fans were upset about what happened.
In the comment field of Karjurock’s Facebook update, several people defend the organizer, saying that the fault is not with them but with the band.
– I have received a few contacts asking how I can go about doing something like this, but I feel that I am quite innocent. I couldn’t become a band when this happened.
According to Sainio, the matter cannot be explained by the fact that Status Quo is a foreign band. He has been organizing several festivals during the past summer, which have included foreign performers. According to him, there have been no problems with the others.
– This is an incomprehensible situation, a band that has done 7000 gigs, so as a single event this is incomprehensible, absolutely incomprehensible. Yes, there have been divas with Finnish bands too and there have been problems just as much.
Sainio has previously worked in the army, so his background is somewhat different from other people working in the festival world.
– I can also say that I am a Status Quo song In the Army Now heard quite a few times in my life. My threshold and opinion of listening to it after yesterday is a bit different. From that you can interpret what I think about them, Sainio concludes.