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| DaveT |
Entertainment - AFP
Organizers pull plug on Berlin's Love Parade dance party
Thu Apr 21,10:44 AM ET Entertainment - AFP
BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin's giant Love Parade techno music dance party has been called off for the second year running, but organizers said they were hoping to revive it in time for the 2006 soccer World Cup.
After reaching a peak in 1999 with 1.5 million ravers grooving through the streets of the German capital, the event gradually ran out of steam and its management said it was unable to find enough sponsors to fund the July event.
Sabine Bremermann of the Love Parade Ltd said plans for the street party were now being revamped with the aim of winning fresh backing to stage it in the summer of 2006.
"We will do everything we can, in cooperation with the city-state of Berlin, industry and the media, to find a way to make a comeback the year of the World Cup" in Germany, she said.
Germany is hosting the World Cup from June 9 to July 9 next year.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung recently cancelled as a sponsor and the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel reported that Germany's T-Mobile had also pulled out.
The Love Parade blamed Berlin's ailing economy for the sponsors' flight but officials from the city-state government said the organizers had failed to change with the times.
After starting small in West Berlin in 1989 the summer before the Berlin Wall fell, the party grew with the craze in electronic music and helped make Berlin the techno capital of the world.
Spin-offs were launched in Switzerland, Israel, Mexico and the United States but Berlin remained the mecca for the world's ravers.
While the organizers used to leave Berlin to pick up the costs of the parade by claiming the event was a political demonstration, a court ruled in 2001 that it was a commercial venture and liable for the expenses.
The cancellation comes just days after the legendary dance club Tresor shut its doors after 13 years as a fixture of Berlin nightlife. |
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| torontotrance |
it was always fun seeing PvD and others on the stage at the end jumping like idiots with 1.3 million crazy people going mad...
gutted...hope it can be back for 06 |
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| krivi |
| quote: | Originally posted by torontotrance
it was always fun seeing PvD and others on the stage at the end jumping like idiots with 1.3 million crazy people going mad...
gutted...hope it can be back for 06 |
heh,awesome,is there any pictures of that scenes i would like to see it? |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by krivi
heh,awesome,is there any pictures of that scenes i would like to see it? |
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| krivi |
| it's good to see this,but i meant on scene with all djs on the stage jumping and dancing...not million crowd... |
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| i got big pants |
| pvd should just dish out the $$$ and let it happen. im sure the b*stard has enough cash on him. :D |
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| sandstorm03 |
| quote: | Originally posted by i got big pants
pvd should just dish out the $$$ and let it happen. im sure the b*stard has enough cash on him. :D |
hrm, i think they basically did that last year |
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| dinoXpress |
| This is sad, one of my best freinds went for 4 or 5 years running, and he is so bummed, he was in berlin last summer, and he said his vacation just felt empty. |
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| sandstorm03 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dinoXpress
This is sad, one of my best freinds went for 4 or 5 years running, and he is so bummed, he was in berlin last summer, and he said his vacation just felt empty. |
why so? Fight the power was still there... From what i heard it was still hugeeeeeeee:conf: .
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that image is sick! |
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| Hanki |
| Ehhh pity, but it seems taht there will be no more LP in Berlin... :( |
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| NYCTrancefan |
| That is sadly what happens when these events become overly commerical and not simply about the music, but the dollars or euros in this case. If enough money can't be made from it, no dice. I feel the Liebesparde in Berlin is all but dead forever. Berlin must be in some deep economic if the home of some of the world's best DJ's can't muster a festival like Loveparade together. |
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| sandstorm03 |
| quote: | Originally posted by NYCTrancefan
That is sadly what happens when these events become overly commerical and not simply about the music, but the dollars or euros in this case. If enough money can't be made from it, no dice. I feel the Liebesparde in Berlin is all but dead forever. Berlin must be in some deep economic if the home of some of the world's best DJ's can't muster a festival like Loveparade together. |
Politics:D |
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