East London’s Bloc Festival has been forced to prematurely close down after just one night with Friday evening’s festivities turning ugly with promoters forced to pull the plug.
Snoop Dogg. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.
Queuing chaos and safety concerns left organisers no choice as police were called.
We understand there were more people at the event than had tickets with reports of over a 1000 punters being turned away despite having tickets.
Event organisers have confirmed that Bloc.2012 will not re-open as expected but have promised ticket holders refunds. The official statement is below.
“By now everyone will have heard that Bloc 2012 was closed due to crowd safety concerns,” says an official statement. “We are all absolutely devastated that this happened, but the safety of everyone on site was paramount. Given the situation on the ground, we feel that it was the right decision to end the show early.
“Bloc will not open on Saturday 7th July so please don’t come to the site. Stand by for full information on refunds.”
Snoop Dogg and Orbital were due to headline the festival at London’s Pleasure Garden in East London.
Garfield Hackett and Debs Armstrong, co-directors of LPG, said: ‘We are hugely disappointed that Bloc Festival had to close early last night and has been cancelled today. We are fully investigating what happened and will provide further information when we are in a position to do so. We thank our staff for dealing with the issue in a manner which ensured that the site was cleared safely.’
All ticket refund requests should be addressed directly to Bloc www.blocweekend.com
