Colectiv Club- The Therapeutic Role of Remembering | Vlad Busca | TEDxCambridgeSchoolofBucharest
[Music] [Music] [Applause] hello good evening uh my name is Vlad bushka and um I was uh there uh on the night of uh October 13th in club Collective um it was a normal Friday at the office I knew from the guys from the band that um the show will start with 1 hour delay so I I was not in a hurry actually in that very morning uh Alex and Vlad from the band came to our office to pick up the CDs that they were going to sell at the at the venue at Collective Club um yeah so in the evening I um I went to to the club I uh around I uh was there at around um 9:30 um and I was uh starting melting into melting like uh speaking with with the friends with the guys from the B uh the from the band that were um very happy that um a lot of people gathered like 300 uh they were happy that um a lot of youngsters like you came because um they were looking to attract this type of audience not only people like me or like friends of theirs including te um I guess that that night that evening we had maybe the longest conversation that uh we have had we she was very happy that uh she had great achievement in social media she was very happy about her upcoming um uh photo exhibition that um he was supposed to to take place uh uh one week later um unfortunately um that night she she took her latest pictures because um she lost her life there um along with uh another five photographer colleagues of mine we are there that b gues me the near me so five photographer lost their lives there another four got severely injured um so the show started at um 10:00 there were um the five the first five songs were from the album Manas of war that was released that night then another songs from um from two from their previous album and um I will show you right now um video it's a mix between uh a live video that I shoot the night for the song the day we die and uh the official uh lyric B video [Music] [Music] [Music] Lo right under the road jumping into the fly L left a sh GL from here now everyone is the BL I'm looking up to my you s on the about the let all by [Music] your conding to leader f should have know oh when the numbers were free we so alive so cuz the day we get is the day we die the day we [Music] die right now life strch your ground in the B Zone from destroy got your face B the you're condescending to figur you should have know this oh when our numbers we free we're so alive so cuz the day we get in is the day we die the day we die [Music] the [Music] we're not we free we so alive so alive cuz the day we get is the day we die the day we when the numbers were free we so so cu the day we get it's the day we do the day we [Music] [Music] [Applause] okay I hope it was not uh too much for you but I saw judas's prestier here so I guess it was okay um so if you remember the very beginning of the show uh those fireworks started nothing happened and this was a p this is a picture that I took exactly after the eighth song uh with the second um Fireworks which unfortunately it seems that few Sparks reach that pill over there I guess you can see that it's not Photoshop it's real there are two small Sparks on that uh sponge uh because of this that um Pho absorbing uh material caught fire in a few seconds the entire pillow was burning um Andre the vocalist uh made a joke like happy New Year this was not in in on the schedule and tried to look for fire extinguisher as for myself you see I was in the right corner opposite from the exit which was under the other one uh the other uh diagonal so the I took my camera and the bag and um I was uh heading quickly to to the exit so I just um got out and U I took two or three steps and um a big pale of smoke came from uh from inside the club uh which I understood was the consequence of U very big flame that um came from from the inside the club towards all the people that were heading to to the exit they felt and because they felt on the entrance they blocked the the exit there was a human um pillarlike people above people they blocked the exit and no one could uh could have get get out the people inside were um inhaling the smoke 26 people died on the scene the very that night and you might know that um some other people up to 74 uh died until U until today but we hope that that's the last number um so after um me going out I just went 50 m away to to to the exit because I didn't know what what actually happened behind me in the club maybe there were it was some risk for explosion or something so I just move a little bit further and um I called the emergency number 112 it's something that I uh don't want you to experience because um it was like in um horror movies and literally um people were were like uh like zombies it was with the skin falling down from them um hair uh burning um it's something that I won't get into into details because uh it's not a good um for me or for you as for myself I will keep going to concerts I will keep playing music I will keep um doing photography I will keep help uh helping bands and friends I will keep support the underground and the local music scene I will keep working with universal and promote new talent and uh I hope that uh I will not be the only one uh I hoped that um the media the press the managers the organizers will um take a closer look on this uh under underground movement underground scene because obviously there's a lot of talent there um you see the guys from goodbye to gravity got two three millions of views on YouTube only after the tragedy they sold thousand of copies on CD only after the tragedy radios and TVs were airing were uh their their songs only after the tragedy thank you [Applause] [Music]