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Posted by Kate Manus on Sep-17-2005 16:54:

Miss Kitten - b*tchy night in Ireland....

Read this post on livesets from the promoter of a party she played at recently.. humourous read. yowza!



Miss Kitten in Derry.....

We would rather be sitting at this stage reminiscing about a great night butinstead we feel compelled to set the record straight about the actions of MissKittin at our event on Friday night past. After years of negotiations, we finally secured a date for Miss Kittin to play at our clubnight. It was a night we were really looking forward to enjoying ourselves but due to the actions of Miss Kittin, we found this impossible.

In all our time of promoting parties, we feel we have never been treated so badly by a visiting artist.

The venue we had chosen to put Miss Kittin on was The Nerve Centre where we have put on a variety of DJ�s and live acts including Laurent Garnier, Dave Clarke, X-Press 2, Mylo, 2020 Soundsystem, Jon Carter, Layo & Bushwacka, JustinRobertson, Slam, Paul Daley, Tom Middleton, Erol Alkan, Andrew Weatherall, Lee Burridge, Mr C, David Holmes, DJ Format & MC Abdominal, Radioactive Man,Fingathing, Silicone Soul, Umek, Craig Richards, James Zabiela, Billy Nasty,Jazzanova, James Lavelle, Scratch Perverts, DJ Craze, The Psychonauts, Si Begg.
The Nerve Centre has also hosted some of the biggest names in rock musicincluding The Thrills, The Undertones, Ian Brown, The Zutons, Embrace, Gomez,David Gray, Sinead O�Connor, The Doves.

Miss Kittin was picked up at Belfast Airport by taxi which transported her to The Tower Hotel in Derry where we had booked her the most expensive suite as well as an additional room for her manager. On meeting Miss Kittin and her manager outside the hotel and welcoming them to our city, we were greeted by Miss Kittin with �It�s fucking freezing� - no hello, nothing.

On returning to the hotel to bring Miss Kittin and her manager to the club, we advised Miss Kittin that the club was next door to the hotel so we would walk to the club. After walking no more than 15 metres, Miss Kittin stopped dead in her tracks and said �This is next door� where is the fucking club?� We told Miss Kittin that the club was just another 30 metres away round the corner.

We then took Miss Kittin to the boardroom of The Nerve Centre where we had a large range of drinks, fruit and various snacks prepared for her. Initially refusing a drink, Caroline then said �How am I meant to enjoy myself tonight. It took me six fucking hours to get here and I�m fucking freezing. I could have been in New York�. Prior to booking her extremely expensive flights, we had suggested several alternative travel options to Miss Kittin that would have got her to Derry quicker. We also warned her of the regular delays that take place at Heathrow on Friday evenings. However there was no flexibility with Miss Kittin regarding flights.

Miss Kittin eventually decided to have a bottle of water but complained that she did not want the water if it was too cold as she was already �fucking freezing�. We then brought Miss Kittin upstairs to the venue to commence her set. We pride ourselves on providing everything artists ask for. The setup on stage was perfect, as was asked for in the contract. Both our resident DJ�s tried to introduce themselves to Miss Kittin but were greeted with a hateful �I don�t understand you�. After starting her set, we are informed by her manager that there was a problem. Basically, the problem was that Caroline was used to playing in bigger venues in front of larger crowds. At this stage the venue was only open an hour and there were nearly 300 people in the venue and there were
people still coming in to the club.

We are then informed that Miss Kittin will play for 1 hour only and that we
should have one of our DJ�s ready to take over. Informed by her manager that there was no way of changing her mind, one of our residents took over from Miss Kittin after she had played 75 minutes. At the end of the night, when paying her fee to her manager, we asked what should we say to the clubbers who had came to
the club to hear Miss Kittin. He informed us that we should lie, �tell the
people she was sick or something as she has fans and she would not want to disappoint her fans.�

These are the fans that she refused to acknowledge all night and basically refused to play for. We have always found that truth is the best policy and we are not going to change now and we don�t believe feigning illness for Miss Kittin to keep hr reputation intact as a good enough reason to change this policy. Within the genres of music we promote, we find that the majority of people that we invite to play are likeminded people, sociable and polite but more importantly professional. In almost eight years of putting on parties, Miss Kittin is the outstanding exception to this rule.

We have been lucky enough to host some of the world�s top DJ�s and producers over the years who always retain a sense of honesty and humility. Derry may not be as cosmopolitan as New York, Paris or Milan but you will be hard pushed to find a more receptive or passionate crowd. Most visiting DJ�s comment on the great reaction and warmth of the people. There is no excuse or valid reason for
Miss Kittin�s actions on Friday night. She was getting paid a lot of money to play records for a couple of hours. All we wanted was for her to do her job.


Posted by LiGHT78 on Sep-17-2005 17:48:

That's horrible, what a slut.


Posted by Marcus007 on Sep-17-2005 19:16:

quote:
Originally posted by LiGHT78
That's horrible, what a slut.


+1


Posted by AwakenedAddict on Sep-17-2005 19:16:

sad times


Posted by fastmp3 on Sep-17-2005 21:10:

her music sucks anyway


Posted by Hman on Sep-17-2005 21:48:

dont bother booking her again.


Posted by Biggy on Sep-17-2005 21:59:

I met her 2-3 times and she was nice to me.
I have already feel this with some dj's but it's the first time I hear that of Miss Kitten.

Steve Lawler is not easy to deal with and some others too but at the end it's their problem and their career will go down if they are bitchy.


Posted by magikb on Sep-17-2005 22:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Biggy
I met her 2-3 times and she was nice to me.
I have already feel this with some dj's but it's the first time I hear that of Miss Kitten.

Steve Lawler is not easy to deal with and some others too but at the end it's their problem and their career will go down if they are bitchy.


Lawler didn't even show for his set at Dance Valley this summer.. him pulling a stunt like that has made me change my mind on the kind of dj he is when you can't even show up for your own gig

and Miss Kitten is playing system on October 20th.. I wonder what she would be like there.. it is another "small" venue!


Posted by Vermz on Sep-18-2005 04:48:

quote:
Originally posted by fastmp3
her music sucks anyway


quoi???
parce que ta quasiment rien entendu d'elle


Posted by Skipper on Sep-18-2005 17:29:

she pulled some equally stupid things when she played at mod club last year.


Posted by Sean Walsh on Sep-18-2005 17:47:

what a bitch =P


Posted by Ravemontreal on Sep-19-2005 13:27:

re

quote:
her music sucks anyway


Well, she was really really good at the last Ravemontreal party at SAT, the party was awesome. And if you download Miss Kittin @ Artforms, that's a great set.

I must say that she has been very nice to me, her manager too, and we had a great time. SHe came at Aria afterwards and danced with Green Velvet and it was just too cool.

And she left on a very good note. Maybe I was lucky? But I don't have any negative thing to say about her.


Posted by Sean Cassidy on Sep-19-2005 14:57:

Re: re

quote:
Originally posted by Ravemontreal
Well, she was really really good at the last Ravemontreal party at SAT, the party was awesome. And if you download Miss Kittin @ Artforms, that's a great set.

I must say that she has been very nice to me, her manager too, and we had a great time. SHe came at Aria afterwards and danced with Green Velvet and it was just too cool.

And she left on a very good note. Maybe I was lucky? But I don't have any negative thing to say about her.


negative/positive???? - teh DJ/Artist Elite all have their Horror Stories - some worse than others - MISSTRESS BARBARA - gotta love it when she pulls rank at a club - awesome DJ and person (can be biting and cold when she wants to be) same as Miss Kitten - they put up with a lot being GIRLS in a DJ MALE culture - sometimes their attitudes reflect this and princesses they become. Dont Hate on them - everyone has bad days - but unprofessionalism - that's a whole other ball of wax..........

Miss Kitten is coming here to Toronto in October to System - I plan on checking it out - I had a good time at Mod Club (the venue Skipper mentioned) and am curious as to what she is doing now 1.5 years later........

ALSO point to ponder - ELECTRO - LARRY TEE - DRAMA SCENE - CLUB KIDS
Mini Buddhas are everywhere.....Miss Kitten is no exception

Money, Success, Fame, Glamour -

sounds beautiful but can make some people quite ugly.....


Posted by dEsidEL on Sep-19-2005 16:23:



i've thoroughly enjoyed her sets at Sonar in Barcelona for the past 2 years and she seemed extremely nice.. but then again that was in front of thousands of people so ..


Posted by ohyeah again on Sep-20-2005 21:14:

to be famous its so nice...suck my d*ck lick my *ss!

seriously,i'm sure,she was extremely tired,thats why she was like that,you know. when you're touring around the world every week-end,i'm sure its getting tough.


Posted by activate on Sep-21-2005 02:04:

well I'm curious to see wether or not she bites my head off when we have her at System on the 21st of October.

I'm sure some people stories get exagerated for the sake of telling a goog story though...

anyone wants reduced list for system, email me


Posted by Hman on Sep-21-2005 04:05:

she was probably pms ing


Posted by TheKidsWantTechno on Sep-21-2005 04:20:

quote:
Originally posted by magikb
Lawler didn't even show for his set at Dance Valley this summer.. him pulling a stunt like that has made me change my mind on the kind of dj he is when you can't even show up for your own gig


yeah, that DID suck! i was totally siked for it!!

but ya know, it's cuz he lost his records on the plane, which musta been DEVASTATING to him.. dunno if you stayed for whoever played instead of him, but you could see lawler up there next to him jumpin up and down and yelling at the crowd

i think it was at that point i made my way over to the loveland tent, now THAT was some sick shit


Posted by KrinKer on Sep-21-2005 04:22:

you all seem to be forgetting something guys !!

girl have something called Pms !!

Imagined what it's like when it's mixed with a hangover, or what's left of a hard drugs night !!

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KrinKer


Posted by nchs09 on Sep-21-2005 04:56:

quote:
Originally posted by KrinKer
you all seem to be forgetting something guys !!

girl have something called Pms !!

Imagined what it's like when it's mixed with a hangover, or what's left of a hard drugs night !!

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KrinKer


Posted by tatgirl on Sep-26-2005 04:54:

I've heard some not-so-flattering stories about her already.

Holy power trip!

quote:
seriously,i'm sure,she was extremely tired,thats why she was like that,you know. when you're touring around the world every week-end,i'm sure its getting tough.


Come on- that's no excuse. That's the way the business is. Do u see many other dj's pulling that? Do u think your average hired motivational speaker (who travels every week as well) would be able to pull off a stunt like that and get away with it? If u can't be professional, get out of the business. And u KNOW its gotta be bad if the promoter is getting online and telling u about it....

Whether there's 300 or 3000 fans there for you, as long as you're getting paid & the promoters came thru on their end- STFU.

Good luck, activate!


Posted by Skipper on Sep-28-2005 17:52:

Re: Re: re

quote:
Originally posted by naesean3
negative/positive???? - teh DJ/Artist Elite all have their Horror Stories - some worse than others - MISSTRESS BARBARA - gotta love it when she pulls rank at a club -


when she wha?


Posted by Skipper on Sep-28-2005 17:53:

Re: Re: re

quote:
Originally posted by naesean3
negative/positive???? - teh DJ/Artist Elite all have their Horror Stories - some worse than others - MISSTRESS BARBARA - gotta love it when she pulls rank at a club -


when she wha?



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