ATB Refuses To Play Planetlove ATB Twitter: Unbelievable! I'm now at the Planet Love Festival! Its 10 pm, my scheduled playtime! But the organizer doesn't allow me to do my Gig because Paul van dyk don't want me to play right before his set! If I would play now Paul told the organizers that he is not willing to play. You will get more Information very soon! Sorry to all the Fans there waiting for me! Unbelievable! ATB FORUM You won´t believe what you will read now. I..m just back in my hotelroom (05.09.2009, 10:30 PM), but actually I should be on stage at the Planet Love Festival in Belfast now. The reality is, that the organizers just told me and my manager one our ago at the festival, that Paul van Dyk told them, that when I play (my contracted playtime was 10-12 PM) my set right before his set 12-2 AM, he will not play! So the organizers decided to throw me out of the lineup! I just want to let you know, how people in this scene and business works and of course this will have consequences to all concerned parties! I..m so sorry for all the fans out there, who wasn't able to see me. Andre (atb) More information about this night coming soon! And finally: # On my way now to New York. Playing Electric Zoo festival same time with Guetta! I'm in luck that Paul van dyk is not playing in NY! ;o)26 minutes ago from web OFFICIAL PLANETLOVE STATEMENT ATB refuses to play Planetlove It is with regret that I have to pen one of the worst unprofessional incidents we have encountered in almost 25 years of booking artists. At 7pm on Saturday evening we respectfully asked ATB to help us with the smooth running of the show by playing his set at the festival from approximately 9pm to 11pm instead of his requested time of 10pm to 12midnight and he point blankly refused. Instead he arrived at the site and chose to verbally abuse and threaten Judith, so much so that he had to be asked to calm down by his manager and security called as Judith feared that things would escalate further. The facts are very simple. ATB chose not to play at all to the same crowd, in the same arena for the same two hour set rather than play one hour earlier! I ask any rational person to try and relate to this. He was paid in full, in advance, as where his flights and transport. He was treated with courtesy and respect but rather than play one hour earlier than he wanted to he hurled abuse, issued threats, wouldn’t play the new time and proceeded to blame PVD and was so convinced from the outset that it was PVD's doing that he even tried to coerce Judith into writing down that it was PVD’s fault. Paul Van Dyk did not even arrive at the venue until 11:45pm. Never before has an artist refused to help with the smooth running of our shows and try and dictate what they should do. At the end of the day this show was about all artists and the people who went to enjoy them, not about one individual. My thanks to the other artists, in particular Judge Jules, who did adapt to the time changes which facilitated the production crews the time to change over the defective generator during his set which was causing the problem in the first place. It is my belief that because of Jules help in the set time before 12 midnight that the change over was done in such a professional manner that I believe the crowd were not even aware that there was a problem. So simple when people work together. __________________ GRADE A BELLEND
is ATB even "big" still?? what a prat! who does he think he is, hes only a DJ Fair enough if he was someone famous but not a fucking DJ!
It totally sounds like PVD to me like, he did something similar before but i cant remember what it was
ATB Update Planetlove update... Hi @ all, as I see in some forums the organizers now try to tell the people that I refused the gig. Thats very funny and I..m very happy to have two witnesses that the organizers told me that I..m not allowed to play in front of Paul van Dyk. They tried to give me a settime from 8:30 till 10 because they supposedly had trouble with some late DJ..s! But I was not able to play at this time because I just arrived in the hotel! As we asked at 9:30 for a transportation to the Venue a guy from the organization told us, we don..t have to go to the venue because my show is cancelled. The reason: I did not took the playtime 8:30 - 10! This was a shock! Anyway, we decided to go to the venue and talk with the organizers personally. I TOLD THE ORGANIZERS, THAT EVEN IF THERE HAVE TROUBLE WITH THE SET TIMES I..M OPEN TO PLAY A SHORTER SET FROM 11-12! THATS ONE HOUR LESS! BUT THEY TOLD ME, THAT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO GIVE ME THIS SET TIME; BECAUSE OF PAUL WOULD CANCEL HIS SHOW THEN! But one thing in the organizers statement is right! I was not in a very good mood... and I think everybody can understand that. Of course the organizers never would tell the truth about having no balls to tell Paul van Dyk that they are the organizers of this event... not Paul van Dyk. Since 10 years I have the same question! What is Paul van Dyk..s problem with my person? Andre Here is the organizers Statement what is a big lie!
I dont know who to believe on this subject but ATB sounds like a cock in general... a quote from Matt Hardwick on his board below ...
Shocking. Besides all that crap, i speak to him on myspace and i think he's sound as. Just my Opinion.
just read the thread on matt hardwicks forum and noticed a good point...... why did they need to change set times to swap a faulty generator when there was no break in play? as ''the change over was done in such a professional manner that I believe the crowd were not even aware that there was a problem'' surely if you need to put a DJ on at a different time to swap a generator you do it because you need to stop the music?
we'll never know what REALLY happened here like... it will be good listening to the rumours and stories that come out in the newxt few days about it though
lol @ spence I guess the only way we'll find out is if PVD says something, then it'll be like trance-form (or whatever it's called) mk 2
what's he gonna say? 'oh yes I said he couldn't play' I don't think so. I think it's the Illuminati at work here
