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Monsters Of Rock 2006 - Cancelled


The higly anticipated Balkan festival Monsters of Rock 2006 in Varna, Bulgaria was officially cancelled and will not take place this year. Here is the official statement by Universum Entertainment posted on thier official web page:

"To our great regret we should inform you that the Second Festival Monsters of Rock in Bulgaria will not take place. Quite recently Mr. Kiril Yordanov, the Mayor of the city of Varna, dramatically changed the terms and conditions of the official authorities that we were familiar with and thus deliberately spoiled the event. He wanted, among other things, to ban the consumption of alcoholic drinks during the festival and to change the closing time so that the event can not happen in a normal and reliable manner.

The 10 months of hard working, organization and great costs spent for advertising, TV- and radio- broadcasts, press, performers, etc. neither impressed the Mayor, nor did they made him abandon his intention.

Although the Municipal Council of the city of Varna has passed a public written resolution authorizing the conducting of Monsters of Rock Festival, it was ignored because the political fights for power in the municipality seem to be more important than doing something for the benefit of the city.

Please send your complaints and proposals to the city of Varna's official Web site at www.varna.bg.
We know that you are as disappointed as we are; we wanted, however, to organize such normal and reliable event as we were promised in order to avoid any mess, disorder and damage whatsoever for all participants, but in return we got this rejection.
We count on your understanding and we apologize once again.

We will, of course, refund all tickets sold for the MoR via www.eventim.bg.
In 2007, MoR will take place in Albena and we will do our best to ensure that all bands scheduled for 2006 MoR will be present thereat."

Source: monstersofrock.org
Event: Monsters Of Rock (CANCELED!)
Posted: 21.07.2006 by marinBG


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22.07.2006 - 08:07
marinBG

It is important to also note that the mayor of Varna never issued a restriction of using beer and alchohol in public places or in places with large crowds... It is actually still taking place in mass events on the beaches of Varna... you just need to get in contact with the Municipality and get their consent... as things look, the organisers of the festival didn't really connect with the Municipality at all... The mayor of Varna may suck, but the Universum Entertainment are the ones to blame of the failure of the festival. Everything about the festival changed all the time and mutated several times. For example initial list of bands playing had nothing to do with reallity and looked like that:

Quote:
3 August
CLAWFINGER
FEAR FACTORY
H-BLOCKX
SLIPKNOT
SOULFLY
CHILDREN OF BODOM

4 August
MOTORHEAD
SAXON
JUDAS PRIEST

5 August
WHITESNAKE
EUROPE
RUNNING WILD
DEF LEPPARD
Axel Rudi Pell

6 August
MINISTRY
DIMMU BORGIR
IN FLAMES
MORBID ANGEL
SODOM


Most of the bands were never confirmed and issuing this was really really unprofessional, despite that it got an amazing publicity reaction in Bulgaria and most of the metal, rock or even nu metal fans started collecting money and getting ready to pack fro the festival... In addition to that, this was the only list for the festival that included dates...
The funniest part of all was when Nedy Cross went on TV to critisize the Bulgarian promoters, because the crazy diva Jennifer Lopez decided to cancel the whole Eastern Europe leg of her tour... and this happend after Universum anounced a totally different list of bands from initial list above... just rediculus
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