‘We are absolutely devastated.’
so says Thomas Helmig after the cancellation of the Roskilde Festival on Monday night.
this Year’s big festival experience with the father and son Helmig at the Roskilde Festival is still not to something.
It does not a wide range of other concerts and festivals.
It was clear Monday night, when prime minister Mette Frederiksen finally lifted the veil on how the government will slowly re-open the country after coronakrisen.
After many weeks of uncertainty struck the prime minister established that the ban on large gatherings will be maintained to and including august.
This is done to ensure that the infection with the corona virus continues to spread slowly in a pace, so hospitals can follow.
Thus, some have called ‘the end of concert experience’, with both Thomas and Hugo Helmig at the Roskilde Festival, nor for anything.
It riles both the father and the son, and shortly after the prime minister’s press conference, wrote Thomas Helmig on Facebook that they are ‘completely devastated’.
‘of course We are absolutely crushed to see our summer concerts finally disappear. The concerts at Ceres Park and the Roskilde Festival will be postponed to 2021, so that much is fixed. What happens with the two Malaga concerts, we do not know yet.’
The Danish pop star has, however, a very special group of colleagues in mind right now:
Namely the large group of musicians, technicians and other employees who now are without work:
‘Udov is that we had DELIGHTED to celebrate together with you, sing with you, dance with you – so goes our thoughts, first and foremost, to all our musicians, technicians, stagehands, security guards, suppliers of stage, sound, lights, fences, etc, etc – their entire livelihoods are pist away, and there are unlikely to be stimulus enough to all survive this.’
Also the younger Helmig’m sorry aflysningerne. On his profile on Instagram posted he on Monday night a picture of himself where he looks to be in festive mood.
But in the accompanying text he writes:
‘Had been pleased to see such here in the face the whole summer, and I had looked forward even more to seeing you all out there on the stages again… it is as it is, and there is nothing to do about it. But fuck, where is it bitter. We can be seen to fall.’
