User
avel599 at last.fm made a comment on the event page for the festival. He said "Another fiasco in the world of greek concerts." so i sent an email and got the following response back:
This might all be greek to you but the photos are self-explanatory:
http://www.avopolis.gr/live/default.asp?ID=827
A short summary:
- Support groups and Madness played normally
- Beastie Boys had 10-15 minutes to go but left the stage.
- The organisers opened the gates for people to enter without tickets (!!), and with them, some bad-formed "anarchists" entered and started burning cars and doing all sorts of ... bad things :/
- Basically the security / safety measures were terrible in the end, even though at the start it all frankly looked like exceptional work from the organizers
- We were informed that a member of Underworld was injured and thus they could not play at all. I also just got a message that he got hit by a brick on his head.
I don't know if this is true, or if he got injured at all and this was just an excuse to make us leave the dangerous site. I hope it was a lie and that he's OK...
Hope this helps. Feel free to relay it to the forums.
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Here is a
babelfish translation of the page linked above. The relevant text being:
"I
mmediately afterwards the premature finishing of appearance of Beastie Boys, and with the tobaccos from the burn of cars precisely outside from the space, were immediately announced the wound of member of Underworld and the end vradja's, that or alicey'ej or no, it was the better excuse in order to it finishes the festival and are avoided the villains."
which doesnt look good at all.
I'll try to update here if i find anything else.
UPDATE: from http://tinyurl.com/2uesgo
"23.15 Begins first ntoy to the backstages and the battle. Somebodies (even irrelevant) leave from the middle in order to they avoid the fury koykoylofo'rwn which vrj'zoyn the organisation, threaten, chase. From that point it is obvious that it could not become concert Underworld. Oj Beastie Boys fey'goyn a'ron-a'ron. The vandalisms mupltiply, in the spaces in, in the bar, in funds - we speak henceforth for loot. It is announced that member of Underworld was wounded. In all the panic, the attack to the backstages and the broken panes, us it would not make by no means impression. However thus and differently the festival anymore had other protagonists... It had finished..."