Overview

• Overnight trucks, cranes and workers arrived at the Boom site to rebuild the Orbyz main stage that was destroyed by fire on Wednesday
• Festival gates will open two hours later than planned on Friday with a contingency plan for reduced capacity if the new main stage is delayed
• Headline artists will perform on a provisional Gathering Stage in DreamVille, which will operate separately from the main festival grounds until the new stage is ready
• Emergency services and organizers have declared the site safe, and secondary stages are being upgraded to accommodate major acts
• Belgian authorities, including the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office, continue investigating the cause of the blaze that destroyed the festival’s centerpiece