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Denmark’s Tivoli considers booking system after chaos

Copenhagen's famous theme park, Tivoli Gardens is considering a booking system for big concerts, after there was chaos on Friday evening as a result of too many concert-goers.

Published: 23 April 2022 16:43 CEST
Crowds watching Danish Andreas Odbjerg in Tivoli garden during Friday Rock on 22 April 2022.
Crowds watching Danish Andreas Odbjerg in Tivoli garden during Friday Rock on 22 April 2022. Friday Rock (Fredagsrock) in Tivoli has its 25th anniversary in 2022 with 25 concerts planned. Photo: Torben Christensen / Ritzau Scanpix

Friday evening’s weekly concert in Tivoli, called Friday Rock (Fredagsrock), attracted thousands of people this week when singer Andreas Odbjerg and rapper Artigeardit performed. 

Shortly before 8.30pm, the amusement park had to close its gates as it had reached capacity, which meant that thousands of people gathered on the streets around Tivoli in Copenhagen without being able to enter.

Several police patrols were sent out in an attempt to manage the crowds around the park.

According to press manager Torben Plank, the gates were closed, as announced, to ensure a good concert for those inside Tivoli.

“We announced in advance that we would close the gates if we thought it was sold out, and we did. This then meant that a number of guests went in vain, and we are sad about that, but that is the price of a good concert inside the gardens.

“Then we saw that some people forced the fence, and that is completely unacceptable. We will report this to the police going forward,” he said, after the management of Tivoli held an emergency meeting on Saturday morning.

Tivoli is now considering what efforts can be made in the future.

“We will do more of the same: encourage people to arrive in good time, we will do checks, and then we will consider a form of seat reservation for the big concerts. That’s one of the things in the toolbox.

“During Covid-19, we had success with guests booking in at special times…so it is a useful tool that one can consider using.”

The press officer did not confirm reservations would definitely happen or give a time-frame for it. He emphasised that Friday’s concert went much better than the previous week’s, when the rapper Icekiid performed and fights erupted in front of the stage. This caused the concert to be interrupted for several minutes.

“In general, guests behaved much better yesterday and our impression is that those who were in the gardens had a really good experience.

“It also helped that a number of younger people were with parents and adults.” 

Andreas Odbjerg performing at Tivoli Gardens during Friday Rock on 22 April 2022.Singer Andreas Odbjerg performing at Tivoli Gardens during Friday Rock on April 22, 2022. Friday Rock in Tivoli has its 25th anniversary in 2022 with 25 concerts planned. Photo: Torben Christensen/Ritzau Scanpix

Plank encourages parents to talk to young people about how to behave at concerts, as due to the pandemic, there are quite a few people going to concerts for the first time.

Friday Rock (Fredagsrock) in Tivoli has its 25th anniversary in 2022 with 25 concerts planned.

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DANISH HISTORY

Worker finds mammoth tusk in gravel pit in Denmark

A rare mammoth tusk has been found by a machine operator at a gravel pit in Terndrup, north of Aarhus, in the second mammoth find made at the location.

Published: 22 May 2024 09:44 CEST
Updated: 22 May 2024 11:37 CEST
Worker finds mammoth tusk in gravel pit in Denmark

Kristian Lang Hedegaard, a machine operator at the Siem Grusgrav gravel pit in Terndrup, north of Aarhus, was excavating gravel on May 16th when a scoop revealed the tusk. 

“I actually had my colleague on the phone when I picked up the scoop, and then I said: ‘I think, damn it, that I have found a tusk for the cheekbone we found a few years ago,” the machine operator at the pit, which is owned by the bulding company NCC, told TV2.

“We find a lot of sea urchins and things like that out here. But it’s more fun to find slightly bigger things. I think it was about five meters down.” 

Simon Kongshøj Callesen, a palaeontologist and biologist at the Natural History Museum in Aarhus, told TV2 that the gravel deposit was caused by sediment that had bee nwashed there when glaciers melted at the end of the ice age, bringing fossils like the tusk from across Scandinavia.

After it was dug up, the tusk went through a sorting machine, which the museum suspects may have caused some damage, as there appears to be a fresh break on the tusk.  

“It is a unique find. Not many such finds have been made in Denmark,” Callesen said in a press release. “Now we want to make sure that it does not get any more cracks, and then we will register it, pack it up and hope that someone can use it in a research context, which we are always very open to.” 

In its press release, the museum says that as Siem Grusgrav was formed from sediment washed away at the end of the Weichsel Ice Age, the last ice age seen in Europe, when woolly mammoths were common, the tusk is likely to come from a mammoth, rather than from one of the straight-tusked elephants who had roamed Europe until the arrival of the ice age largely pushed them out of Europe.   

In 2020, NCC workers found a mammoth molar tooth at Siem, which is currently on display near the entrance of the Aarhus National History Musuem. 

The mammoth tusk will be cleaned up and stored for future research. Photo: Aarhus Natural History Museum.
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