{"id":766672,"date":"2026-02-15T18:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/766672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:53:11","slug":"avatar-cut-london-show-short-after-road-crew-suffer-electric-shocks-gear-gets-damaged-the-whole-stage-became-electrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/766672\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar Cut London Show Short After Road Crew Suffer Electric Shocks &#038; Gear Gets Damaged: &#8220;The Whole Stage Became Electrified&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Avatar<\/strong> vocalist, etc. <strong>Johannes Eckerstr\u00f6m<\/strong> has issued a new video statement regarding the band\u2019s ill-fated show at Exhibition White City in London, England last night, February 14th. While the Swedish metal group have generally been performing around 17 songs during their sets during their ongoing European\/UK leg, last night\u2019s stop was cut short after 12 songs. That abrupt end stemmed from an apparent electrical issue which shocked two members of the band\u2019s road crew and damaged some of the band\u2019s equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eckerstr\u00f6m<\/strong> stated that one point \u201cthe whole stage became electrified.\u201d He offered the following on the matter in the below video [transcribed by theprp.com]:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHello everyone watching, particularly the people of London who came out to see our show tonight. As you heard, we didn\u2019t make it quite to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>The whole stage became electrified. It burnt up some of our equipment and also shocked \u2014 severely shocked \u2014 two guys in our crew.<\/p>\n<p>We have deemed this venue not safe to perform in any longer. Like, we could get hurt, we we\u2019re simply lucky. The crew guys are fine now, so also lucky. But this is not a safe place to be for you or for us, so how about a rain check?<\/p>\n<p>We want to figure out what we can do to come back as soon as we can and do you right London. I think both you and us deserve that very much.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for an amazing hour-plus at least, it was supposed to be a bit longer. You were amazing, we were pretty amazing too. Let\u2019s find an amazing place to finish this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Avatar<\/strong> with <strong>Alien Weaponry<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>02\/15 Manchester, UK \u2013 Academy<br \/>02\/16 Glasgow, UK \u2013 Barrowland<br \/>02\/17 Nottingham, UK \u2013 Rock City<br \/>02\/18 Bristol, UK \u2013 O2 Academy<br \/>02\/20 Amsterdam. NET \u2013 AFAS Live<br \/>02\/21 Esch-sur-Alzette, LUX \u2013 Rockhal<br \/>02\/22 Zurich, SWI \u2013 Komplex<br \/>02\/24 Barcelona, SPA \u2013 Razzmatazz<br \/>02\/25 Madrid, SPA \u2013 La Riviera<br \/>02\/27 Lisbon, POR \u2013 LAV<br \/>02\/28 Bilbao, SPA \u2013 Santana 27<br \/>03\/02 Lyon, FRA \u2013 Le Cube<br \/>03\/03 Milan, ITA \u2013 Alcatraz<br \/>03\/04 Vienna, AUT \u2013 Gasometer<br \/>03\/05 Munich, GER \u2013 Tonhalle<br \/>03\/06 Cologne, GER \u2013 E-Werk<br \/>03\/07 Paris, FRA \u2013 Le Zenith<br \/>03\/09 Wiesbaden, GER \u2013 Schlachthof<br \/>03\/10 Zlin, CZE \u2013 Sports Hall Datart<br \/>03\/11 Warsaw, POL \u2013 Stodola<br \/>03\/12 Berlin, GER \u2013 Columbiahalle<br \/>03\/13 Hamburg, GER \u2013 Docks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avatar vocalist, etc. Johannes Eckerstr\u00f6m has issued a new video statement regarding the band\u2019s ill-fated show at Exhibition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[54359,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-766672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-avatar","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}