Tomorrowland, hosted in Belgium, is widely regarded to be one of the best festivals for dance music lovers. It is indesputably the largest electronic music festival in the world, and every year they put on a show that establishes its worthy place on the throne.
One of the many attractions to the festival is the unbelievable set design that goes into the stages. Over the years, Tomorrowland has created works of art beyond belief for their main stage and the rest of the magical fields. However, this year, days before the gates opened, disaster struck.
The enormous sculpture surrounding the Tomorrowland main stage, designed to look like an icy wonderland, caught fire for reasons that are still unclear. Within minutes, the fire was raging, tearing through the materials the main stage was constructed from. Clouds of smoke billowed from the decorative set, and it quickly became an unbeatable inferno.
Hundreds of firefighters, as well as a helicopter, were employed to extinguish the fires. However, the flames were too big, and the main stage succumbed to the flames and burned to nothing. Thankfully, nobody was hurt in the fire, but the stage will be unusable for the upcoming Tomorrowland festival.
“We were just putting the finishing touches on it. One more day and it would be finished. Four weeks of work… gone in half an hour,” an employee told the local news outlet.
Tomorrowland Must Go On
Tomorrowland will expect to see around 400,000 people in attendance over the two-weekend runtime of the festival. However, due to the immense fire at the main stage, it will not be in use this year. There are still 14 other stages that feature in the lineup.
Huge names such as David Guetta, Lost Frequencies, Swedish House Mafia, and Charlotte De Witte are all expected to play throughout the Tomorrowland festival. At present, the organisers are looking for solutions to the rescheduling.
There is also talk of tearing down the ruined structure before the event starts. “It is impossible to put into words what we’re feeling. The Tomorrowland Instagram page posted. It “wasn’t just a stage… it was was living, breathing world.”
One of the largest spectacles of the music festival is now nothing but smoking ash. Thankfully, somehow, nobody was injured in the towering inferno.