12:44 am IST
Oct 29, 2011


Eyewitness: Metallica’s F1 Delhi Fiasco

    • Delhi is just garbage. Unfit to call itself the capital of the country.

    • here's the sequence of events

      1. The organizers completely mess up the security and barricading.
      2. The crowd builds up because gates are not opened on time. There is no drinking water in the venue.
      3. Eventually, 1 Caucasian fellow comes on stage and abuses the crowd (using f words)
      4. People are told to sit on the floor... for a rock concert.
      5. Metallica eventually announce that they are postponing the concert... in a press conference at a hotel. They don't have the decency to come on stage and talk to their fans
      6. The crowd goes berserk and storm the stage.

      Tell me objectively, whose fault is that?

    • it's been cancelled altogether now, they couldn't get a permit for saturday

    • Not surprised.

    • Agreeing with you a long way, but your last comment just basically makes a 180 on your entire article. You say "F1 was supposed to represent the triumph of the private sector in organizing mega-events over the public sector. Em, right."
      Forgive me, but since when does F1 have had any power in the countries they visit, other than what is directly linked to the FIA? They cannot control or order civil workers to work for them, as the government pays their salary, and even though I understand the frustration, F1 has nothing whatsoever to do with the private sector that are found in Delhi at all. Yes they organize the event, basically opening the circuit "come see the show". But it+s the dreadful infrastructure, such as power-shortages and police men who has no cue what they´re doing, that are the real reason for the cancellation.

    • Weirdos


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