Bombay Bicycle Club forced to miss festival date due to global IT outage

Indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club were forced to reschedule a music festival performance after the Crowdstrike IT outage disrupted services in several industries across the world. The British group, comprised of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram and Ed Nash, were due to play Poolbar Festival in the Austrian town of Feldkirch on Friday but missed it due to a cancelled flight. In a post to Instagram on Friday evening they said: “Unfortunately our flights to get to tonight’s Poolbar Festival show were cancelled because of the IT outage. The show is now going to take place this Sunday July 21. “It’s an early show: Doors at 7PM and we’re on at 8PM. All tickets remain valid! The combination tickets are valid today and on Sunday. “Ticket holders who are unable to attend on Sunday can return their tickets at any advance booking office. The show is sold out but any returns will be available at the box office.”

Flight delays and cancellations are among the disruption expected to continue into the weekend after a flawed update rolled out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many offline around the world on Friday.

The fault has also impacted GP surgeries and pharmacists and left many businesses unable to accept card payments.

A fix was deployed for a bug in the update, which affected Microsoft Windows PCs, with the chief executive of the company at the centre of the outage warning it would take “some time” for systems to be fully restored.

George Kurtz also apologised for events, saying he is “deeply sorry”, and made clear it was “not a security or cyber incident”. CrowdStrike confirmed Apple Mac and Linux users were unaffected.

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