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| GotToRollMe |
Wednesday May 9, 11:41 PM
BELGRADE, Serbia, May 9 AP - A planned Rolling Stones concert in Belgrade will not take place at the city's racetrack to avoid upsetting hundreds of horses stabled nearby, the concert organisers said, announcing a change of venue.
The event, scheduled for July 14, will instead take place in a vast public park in the Serbian capital, said Raka Maric of Music Star Productions.
The decision was made after animal rights activists protested that the noisy concert would distress the horses.
More than 80,000 tickets are being sold for the concert as Serbs hope to finally see the legendary rock band after at least two previous attempts to bring them to Belgrade failed
Link: http://au.news.yahoo.com/070509/2/13eid.html |
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| gimmekeef |
Bet the horses are pissed off....... |
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| Saint Sway |
I applaud the horses for refusing to pay the exhorbant "Hot Seat" ticket prices! |
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| pdog |
Win, Place & WTF?
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| glencar |
Well, this is not the worst reason to move a show although I can't believe the horses would be scared by the Stones' rhythm section! |
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| pdog |
Horses get some really good dope! |
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| GotToRollMe |
The concert will "likely" take place in Usce Park:
Stones to relocate Belgrade concert to spare horses
Wed May 9, 2007 12:47PM EDT
By Ljilja Cvekic
BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones have asked to change the venue for a concert in Belgrade to spare hundreds of horses from enduring a potentially traumatic experience.
The July 14 concert was due to be held at the Serbian capital's Hippodrome racetrack until animal protection society ORCA complained the noise would traumatize the 300 horses kept in the nearby stables.
Reaction to the story of the horses became heated after the news media reported that local hostlers had said they were ready to sedate the animals to keep them calm during the concert.
"The concert will not take place on the Hippodrome," Raka Maric, manager of Music Star Production, told Reuters.
In a letter to ORCA, the organizers said they had been victims of bad publicity, and it was all much ado about nothing.
"The Rolling Stones' band members are great animal lovers," Maric said in the letter. "We didn't manage to convince The Stones' management that the concert would not harm the horses."
The band has never played in Serbia. A 2003 concert was cancelled due to the assassination of then prime minister Zoran Djindjic, and a 2006 date scrapped after guitarist Keith Richards suffered a head injury while on vacation.
The likeliest new venue for the concert is the Usce park at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers. The open space has hosted concerts and big gatherings in the past, such as a rally of the late nationalist strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 1989.
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL0951334320070509
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Finally ... just a little respect.
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