Substandard production at a Pepsi competition in Guangzhou resulted in several people being injured when the stage capsized (WTF??). Taiwanese singer Pan Yuwen was on stage at the time. Word on the street is that the both the brand and the local promoter (Guangzhou ChangLong Group) requested all media NOT to report on the accident. Plus ca change, huh?
UPDATE: Pepsi release some information/ defend the production HERE.
UPDATE2: Since the Tudou video is now blocked, we have found another place to view. We are good to you people!
You can see the video below:
That’s horrible. Not only don’t they care about the artists’ music, juding by what Helen wrote, but also not about their safety.
I hope all media WILL report on this…
Apparently they got the video pulled, as well. I can’t read the Chinese; but I imagine it says something like ‘Video not available, due to totalitarian censorship’.
Here’s another link just in cased you missed it
http://www.zg-zy.cn/n_OAE3A00_114Q0EQ3E.html
This is terrible. I hope everyone hurt in the accident is okay!
i don’t understand why the lighting engineer put moving heads on scaffolding that was obviously not stabilized or weight rated and the audio arrays were on the same “wall painting” scaffolds as well…horrible accident…horrible planning…i hope all the cautious production companies business is not hurt due to carelessness of others…
i hope many media co.’s report this.
usually this kind of problem the local police will do their best not to make it too big as well, as if there’s great than a certain number of people dead/injured they have to report to the central and the central police department take over, and it doesn’t look good for them. (Bus went down with 10 injured, don’t have to report, 11 injured one dead, the central police department takes care of it).
PLSN magazine has but info from this blog on their news list which is interesting
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# kenny-AE-SHPCon 27 Jul 2009 at 9:40 pm
i don’t understand why the lighting engineer put moving heads on scaffolding that was obviously not stabilized or weight rated and the audio arrays were on the same “wall painting” scaffolds as well…horrible accident…horrible planning…i hope all the cautious production companies business is not hurt due to carelessness of others…
i hope many media co.’s report this.
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It wouldn’t be up to the lighting engineer to make the decision. It would be the riggers. Then, in North America anyway, the entire structure has to be approved by a structural engineer.
So many mistakes…
No audio company should have put their speakers on that tower… no lighting company should have put their fixtures on it either… the riggers shouldn’t have built the structure in that way… and the structural engineer (if there was one) should have known this was a bad idea to start with…
I hope no hands, or audience members where hurt… for the people who decided it was a good idea… I hope they were standing right under something heavy…
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