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| Smash's official statement about Morrissey and the Fuji Rock Festival |
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posted by davidt
on Friday July 07 2000, @08:15AM
a. in jp writes:
Today (6 July'00) it's OFFICIALLY announced that: MORRISSEY's NOT playing at this year's Fuji Rock Fest.
The promoter SMASH explains as follows:
"We now, sadly, must announce that Morrissey is not playing at
this year's Fuji Rock Festival. We were asked by many people
re:Morrissey's appearance, if he definitely plays or not(*'cos we
here heard loads of rumours too) and so we had been trying hard
to get contact with him, to check the final confirmation by himself
but he just KEPT SILENT so we decided to pull off from keeping
his name on the list... we apologise for any inconvenience."
(more)
and the details are like this...
"Usually when we ask artists to play with us, we first make contact
with the management, and they ask them for us by phone/fax/
e-mail. But for Morrissey, it was different. Because you know why,
it's HIM. And what we did was: because now he lives in L.A., the
top from the management in the U.K. had flown there and met him
and explained about the fest, and got the answer by himself: "YES" to play at this year's Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba, Japan.
"I(*president of Smash) was so so glad to hear it, for personally too
as I still have this memory close to my heart: I had a chance to
see The Smiths playing in England about 15 years ago and was so
impressed by the great performance.
"but we had been asked and kept told the rumour by many people
that he WOULDN'T play, so the management tried hard to get in
contact with him again to get the final confirmation by himself(again) but he just kept ignoring us and left silence and, now we are in the state of "inable" to make contact with him. And now it's getting so
close to the Fest itself so we finally decided to pull off. We still haven't heard from him.
"And one more thing: because of this attitude of Morrissey, the
management made the contract itself with him EXPIRED.
"Here again we apologise for the inconvenience to you all who looked
forward to his performance."
well, that's it... there are 2 separated messages on the site, 1 on the front page and the other in the section called "Message from President(=Mr Hidaka)". But they were both written only in Japanese. I mixed them together and tried to translate the words VERY correctly,
but I do apologise if it's a bit different or something for my English
ability is not that perfect. But I believe I have covered everything on their site: http://smash-jpn.com/
Related: "Morrissey will NOT be playing the Fuji Rock Festival" (May 29)
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Viva Morrissey!