Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Radiohead’s touring company is among four companies under scrutiny by Ontario’s Labour Ministry after a fatal collapse at Toronto’s Downsview Park crushed one man to death and injured three others.
The ministry has requested documents from four companies involved with the fatal stage collapse in an attempt to figure out exactly who’s responsible for the fallen structure.
June 18, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
A stage built to accommodate rock superstardom before a crowd of 30,000 takes a small army and several days to construct from the ground up. Dozens if not hundreds of crew members measure the exact location, lay concrete blocks as ballast and build up the raised floor, supports and a roof before trained riggers clamber up latticed scaffolding to suspend loudspeakers, lights and visual displays.
The stage set up for Radiohead’s Saturday show would have been right on schedule by late afternoon. The structure otherwise ready to go, the technical crew travelling with the band was doing final audio and lighting adjustments in preparation for a sound check.
It took seconds for the entire stage to crumple in on itself; white canopy laden with screens and lights tipping forward onto the stage, bringing scaffolding down with it.
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