Reps for Rammstein asked organizers of the 2010 Festival d'été de Québec (FEQ) to help recruit women for a post-concert party, according to a report on Tuesday.
“They asked for that and they were told no,” Daniel Gélinas, who was general manager of the FEQ at the time, told Le Journal de Québec.
Samantha McKinley, the current VP of communications for the festival, confirmed the German metal band wanted promoters to “facilitate contact with spectators, a request that our reception staff as well as our production management refused.”
Gélinas said during the Rammstein concert, the band’s team showed up at the festival’s corporate box near the stage “to see if there were any girls” but were told to leave. “We had never seen that. It never happened for other artists,” Gélinas recalled. “Employees were outraged.”
The Journal report repeatedly refers to “jeunes filles,” or “girls,” but there is no indication that the band was seeking anyone less than 16 years old, the age of consent.
No one came forward with an allegation against Rammstein in 2010, nor in 2016 when the FEQ hosted the band again. Rammstein also performed in Montreal in 2011, 2012 and 2022 but a spokesperson for promoter evenko told Le Journal de Québec they were not aware of any problematic behaviour.
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Rammstein was accused last month of operating a system at its concerts in which women are recruited to have sex with frontman Till Lindemann. At least two women have gone public with allegations that they were drugged at parties for the band and then taken to meet Lindemann. One of them alleged she was sexually assaulted by Lindemann following a Rammstein concert in Vienna in 2019.
In a statement earlier this week, Rammstein said “the accusations have hit us all very hard and we take them extremely seriously. To our fans, we say: it’s important to us that you feel comfortable and safe at our shows – on and off stage.”