The Eastern European festival market just can’t seem to catch a break at the moment. If you weren’t busy dodging errant laser beams in Russia, you could have been in the Czech Republic running for your life as an apocalyptic storm hit the Creamfields festival over the weekend. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the whole thing was rather expertly caught on video and you can get a taste via a multitude of YouTube clips.

One of the most remarkable clips comes from Sebastien Leger, who had his set cut at the 45 minute mark as intense and deathly black clouds enveloped the sky. He shot the minutes immediately preceding the storm hitting the festival site from the DJ booth, right up to the point the music was cut and winds began buffering the stage! It’s rather startling to watch as the clouds creep up slowly… it’s like something out of Ghostbusters.

Sebastien wrote the following about the experience on his blog:

Hi all
This is the most crazy experience i EVER had in my whole 15 years dj career :
I was playing at Creamfields – Main stage, the party was absolutly amazing, the crowd was really nice (thanx to you !!!) and the weather was good !
But in 5 minutes time, that really good party just turned into the worst nightmarre EVER : Apocalypse.
Look at the sky during the video on the left side on the screen, you slowly see appearing a massive BLACK clouds coming thru… At that time i thoug it will be raining, but not as bad as the following things !…
At 3 minute, you can hear a noise and the music stopped, it was a big piece of whatever falling down on the turntable, but then suddenly a MASSIVE wind came and started to pushing everything down see at 3’09; and then the huge speakers wall that was on my leftside just fall down on me !!! I avoid it miraculously, just been hurted on my arm, bit of blood but nothing tooo bad ! Then the camera stopped, but i can tell you the rest was just pure hell, everything started to collapse, i had to catch (save) my records and just run away !! Festival cancelled
Thanx for the people that enjoyed this 45 minutes with such a crazy ending !!

There’s a stack more videos embedded on this blog. Pretty crazy stuff!

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