An hour after he was allowed to enter the Amsterdam Arena for the Rolling Stones concert, superfan Peter Donks from Waspik was allowed to leave again. He tells this on Monday at the beginning of the evening with disbelief in the Afslag Zuid program on Omroep Brabant. Everyone in the stadium has just heard that the concert is canceled because frontman Mick Jagger is ill. He has tested positive for corona.
Disappointed, depressed, angry, but also compassionate and understanding towards the Stones. Those are the reactions that Peter hears around him now that the announcement of the cancellation has slowly dawned on everyone. “The show has been canceled and that’s no joke,” he sighs.
Rehearsals continued on Monday afternoon, without Mick Jagger. According to Peter, there was hope that he could be on stage tonight. But that turned out not to be the case, was the announcement an hour after the first people were allowed to enter the stadium.
“Corona has struck Mick so hard that he has no voice and is unable to perform,” said Peter. Jagger only discovered that he had corona when he had already arrived at the stadium. The 78-year-old singer had some symptoms and then tested positive, the band said in a statement on Instagram. It is probably mild complaints.
The Stones regret that the concert cannot take place. “But the safety of the public, the fellow musicians and the touring crew is more important,” the band said.
New date?
According to Peter, the management of the British band has announced that ‘because of the ties with the Netherlands’ there is a wish to make up for the concert in the Netherlands, but a new date has not yet been announced. Of course Peter is very disappointed, but he still has the hope that a new date will come for the almost certainly last concert of the Stones in the Netherlands.
For now there is nothing left for him but a long journey back to Waspik, with the Stones in the background. Little consolation, because oh how ready he was for tonight’s performance. Fortunately, he still has a Stones concert in London in prospect, later this month. “If it all goes through”, Peter gives another blow.
Concert organizer MOJO announced on Monday evening that there will indeed be a new date for the concert. Tickets purchased for the show remain valid.
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