Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark has issued a statement for the group on the early Sunday morning incident at their SXSW show where a camera boom fell into the crowd, injuring four people.
Once we realised what had actually happened, and that there were people who needed medical treatment it was obvious that we could not start playing. I guess that if there was any 'luck' involved.. it was the fact that the camera crane fell before we actually started.. it would have been much more confusing and slower to resolve if we were into the set. I expected the concert to be cancelled. We just waited to see if the injured were going to be OK.. (I hear that they are OK). Once the police said it was fine to play we decided that we should at least do something for those who had paid money and waited until 1.30AM.. Even though the 2AM curfew would not be pushed back! It felt rather weird at the beginning, but slowly the band and audience started to re-connect.. it was actually a great 7 song set! And an even greater relief that no-one is permanently hurt!
It was very unfortunate that this accident had to occur during SXSW right as we walked out on stage. We are thankful that no one was hurt too badly and we hope for all that were injured to make a swift and full recovery. We plan to get in touch directly with the injured people.
Please note that we have been misquoted in some of the media, slandering Stubbs, which is not the case. We unfortunately had our set cut an another venue in a very unprofessional manner earlier in the week and that information was misconstrued with our statement about the accident at Stubbs.
OMD's U.S. tour continues Wednesday night in Salt Lake City, Friday in Los Angeles, Saturday in Oakland, Sunday in San Diego and next Tuesday back in L.A.
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