MEXICO CITY, JUNE 25 (EL UNIVERSAL).- Korn’s cancellation, just four hours after her performance at Machaca Fest, sparked surprise and disappointment among the fans who gathered at the festival, because it was no more and no less than the group that led the event’s rock groups.
However, what drew the most attention were the statements from the promoter, who shared that the band had planned to arrive on stage a few hours before the performance, which their supporters showed and expressed dissatisfaction with grain It had to have landed in Monterrey at least a day before to avoid such a mishap, which is why it’s already been speculated that the band were never engaged for the concert.
yesterday the Machaca festival which has been bringing together great exponents of different music genres since 2011. It was therefore not surprising that this year his program included important groups such as Los Caligaris, Siddhartha, Sech, Hanson, Westlife, Nelly Furtado and of course Korn. , a group that led the headline of the rock bands that would perform, so their performance on stage was scheduled until 12:00 p.m., however, a large part of their supporters gathered since the start of the event, between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.: 00:00 and 13:00 to find the best seat on the “Machaca Stage”, the main stage of the festival, and enjoy the band’s return to our country after their last visit in 2016.
Little did their fans imagine at the time that just hours before the band’s performance, while Jumbo finished their participation and passed the baton to Los Caligaris, the event organizers would announce that Korn had canceled their participation in Machaca Well, Less than an hour after taking off from Los Angeles bound for Nuevo León, the group’s plane broke down, which prevented the flight from being carried out successfully and had to return to the Van Nuys airport facilities for safety reasons. , in California.
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And although the organizers of Machaca Fest shared through their social networks a message that Korn had sent to their fans, in which they apologized for the inconvenience that prevented their presence on the territory of Monterrey, their followers forgive their absence at the festival due of the tickets you paid for, which ranged from 1,575 to 3,500 pesos. However, this dissatisfaction grew when Ismael “Melo” Montoya, the organizer of the festival, explained some details about the band’s cancellation, expressing an agreement with the band that he would be at the premises a few hours before his performance on stage of the Parque Fundidora would arrive, as the event had already started by that time.
“At 9:00 p.m. we received a call that Korn had returned to their Van Nuys Airport in California due to flight disruptions.”stressed Melo Montoya, who explained that although they took off, they returned to the flight departure point 40 minutes later to ensure the safety of those who were on top of the plane.
“They had a flight plan to arrive here at 8am, which broke off after 40 minutes and returned,” he explained in an interview with El Norte, broadcast on the newspaper’s social networks.
And although Montoya emphasized that they “moved heaven and sea” to find another flight that would allow Korn to board and reach Machaca, the haste with which events were happening prevented them from finding an optimal one Finding an option that would definitely bring the band, but that was it, hasn’t mitigated the dissatisfaction of fans, who have revealed on social networks that they find many inconsistencies around the cancellation, suspecting that the organizers will never stop the band although the group themselves confirmed they would be coming to Mexico just for the festival that day via his Instagram yesterday.
Among the comments of his fans you can read:
“They must have asked for them to be in town the day before. They wanted to play with no sound check, no anything like that, just to get pure ch*** as it turned out. Little seriousness.”
“I have already checked several flight tracking sites and there is none from Van Nuys to Monterrey, nor one that left Van Nuys and had to return. El Melo is lying.”
“Who takes a flight with instructions to arrive 5 minutes before the appointment?”
“Part promoter and part norn, how dare you fly at this time? Aside from that, it’s not like Korn came from the day before, no ma***, there were artists who had been there since the morning of the 24th. We were in Monterrey, tell everyone, Korn didn’t want to come.
“How do you plan to record and arrange instruments in an hour? Liar.”
“Of course they knew early on that they weren’t coming, but if they communicated it, people would demand a refund before the event started.”