Untold festival in Cluj is over, with the first statistics revealing that over 300,000 people attended it, among whom there were around 30,000 foreigners.
Over 150 artists performed at Untold who ended on Monday morning after four days of maximum fun and good music.
Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren had an explosive show, performing on Saturday night to Sunday morning from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m., when everything ended with an amazing fireworks show. 75,000 people attended his gig, with the DJ himself admitting it was one of the best shows of the year. He rewarded his fans including with a Romanian song, mixed for the first time. Van Buuren said that such events uniting people of different nationalities through music could send a positive message in the current international context. The famous DJ vowed to come back to Cluj next year as well.
The last day of the festival artists such as Afrojack, Lost Frenquecies or DJ Martin Garrix tread the boards. 20-year-old Garrix, the third best DJ in the world, took by storm the Cluj Arena stage in his first concert performed in Romania.
Mayor of Cluj and his wife, unexpected spectators
The mayor of Cluj, Emil Boc was also among the Untold spectators, at least on the last night.
A photo of the mayor holding his wife up on his shoulders got viral on the social media. Emil Boc and his wife left at dawn after Armin van Buuren ended his show.
Over 1,600 people needed medical aid
Over 1,600 people needed medical assistance during the Untold festival running in Cluj on August 4-7. Most of them reached to the hospital for alcohol abuse.
According to the Emergency Situations Inspectorate in Cluj, around 150 firemen, next to doctors, nurses and volunteering paramedics have been deployed for the Untold Festival on a daily basis.
“The rescue teams granted medical assistance to 1,640 people. 35 of them have been transported to the hospital for specialty medical checks, while the others represented minor affections, solved by the firemen and doctors on the spot,” reads the press release by ISU Cluj.
Medical sources told Mediafax that most of the people addressing the doctors had made alcohol abuse and some of them had consumed drugs.
The quoted sources revealed that among those who went to the emergency room of the County Hospital in Cluj-Napoca were youngsters presenting cardiac affections associated to the alcohol consumption, but also fractures and contortions.