Stage Collapses At Pukkelpop Festival

Weather has wrecked havoc at Belgium's annual Pukkelpop Festival bringing down a stage and killing two people according to NME. The Smith Westerns were about to play and were lucky not to be injured but have lost most if not all of their gear.

This is becoming a scary trend of this years summer festival season  in the northern hemisphere with at least three other stage collapse incidents reported, one killing four people.

Here's some footage of Pukkelpop:

And here's some terrifying footage of the fatal stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair: (embed disabled click here to watch).

And another at Tulsa's Brady Block Party on the stage Flaming Lips where about to play:

And head over hear for footage of the stage collapse at the Ottawa Blues Festival as Cheap Trick played.