Green Day habla sobre la muerte del acróbata en el festival Mad Cool

POR CAMBIO16
09/07/2017

Billie Joe Armstrong, vocalista de la banda estadounidense Green Day, ha emitido un comunicado en el que se refieren a la muerte del bailarón Pedro Aunión el pasado sábado durante el festival Mad Cool en Madrid.

El líder de la banda, que se presentó en el escenario minutos después de la muerte de Aunión, indició que no tenían conocimiento de lo ocurrido, por tanto «Si lo hubiéramos sabido antes no habríamos tocado. No somos gente sin corazón»

En la gráfica posteada por Armstrong en su cuenta de Instagram, el cantante también comente que «Ni siquiera sabíamos que había una performance de acróbatas. Estos festivales son enormes. Estábamos calentando a las 11.25 de la noche. Quince minutos antes las autoridades locales le dijeron a nuestro manager que teníamos que esperar para salir porque había un problema de seguridad, algo normal que suele ocurrir en cualquier espectáculo… No nos dijeron que aquello no era normal.»

Armstrong aseguró que la banda se enteró de lo sucedido luego de terminar su set de 2 horas sobre el escenario, preguntándose»No sé por qué las autoridades decidieron no informarnos de lo sucedido. Es la primera vez que nos ocurre algo así en los 30 años que Green Day lleva encima de los escenarios»-

«Si lo hubiéramos sabido antes no habríamos tocado. No somos gente sin corazón. Para nosotros la seguridad es lo primero en nuestros conciertos. Lo que le ocurrió a Pedro es impensable. Una vez más damos el pésame a su familia y amigos», culminó.

Last night at the Mad Cool festival in Spain there was a horrific accident. An acrobat by the name of Pedro was killed during his performance before Green Day played our show. We are so sad for Pedro and his family and we pray for them in this time of grief. I can’t imagine how much suffering the friends and family are going through. Many of you are wondering why we continued to play our show after the accident. Green Day did not hear about the accident until after our show was over. We didn’t even know there was an acrobat performance at all. these festivals are huge. There are so many things happening at the same time it’s impossible to keep up with every performer/artist.. We were in a back stage compound about a half mile away from the main festival stage. We were warming up ready to go at 11:25 pm. 15 minutes prior our tour management was told by local authorities to wait to go on stage because there was some sort of security issue. Security issues are a normal occurrence and procedure at any show.. we were NOT told why which is also normal. we waited as we were instructed. Still, We had no clue there was any such accident. We were given the ok. The band jumped into vans and drove to the main festival stage. This was to be the last show of our European tour and we were all so excited to play our hearts out one last time. We were on stage at around midnight and played around two and a half hours. Everything seemed normal. the crowd and fans had a good time. We got off stage and drove back to our artist compound. It was there when we were told the shocking news about Pedro. All of us were in disbelief. I don’t know why the authorities chose not to tell us about the accident before our concert. All we know is what was said after our concert. This has never happened in the 30 years Green Day have been performing live. If we had known prior to our performance we most likely would not have played at all. We are not heartless people. The safety and well being at any of our concerts absolutely comes first. What happened to Pedro is unthinkable. Once again we are heartbroken for his friends and family.

Una publicación compartida de Billie Joe Armstrong (@billiejoearmstrong) el 8 de Jul de 2017 a la(s) 5:07 PDT