a controversial event I've been addicted to watching unfold.

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Posted by Owen M on Jan-06-2008 17:27:

a controversial event I've been addicted to watching unfold.

So I was one of the djs at a New Years Party...a realllly big one.
1500 people in Hamiltons convention center.

here's the event video....
......on CH CH 6 o'clock news??? what the fuck?

I've been hooked on watching this unfold

For the record, Nightdreamer nor I had nothing to do with the promotions, planning or execution of this event, other than me playing a set from 1:15 till close....other than some hand jobs and mild finger f-uck-ing behind the scenes

Posted by DaRoZa on Jan-06-2008 17:47:

heh i was pretty close to going to this, i heard some stories but didn't know they pissed this many people off

lol @ them showing craig allan's facebook complaint, that guy used to rap under the alias "ghetto child" back in the 8 mile era. true story

Posted by ak87 on Jan-06-2008 18:03:

funny
a bunch of my friends went to this
I'll have to ask them about it

Posted by teufel-man on Jan-06-2008 18:28:

doesnt this sort of thing happen fairly often? Clubs/Promoters basically screwing people over. Seems like its just part of the business

Posted by jchung52 on Jan-06-2008 19:05:

quote:
Originally posted by teufel-man
doesnt this sort of thing happen fairly often? Clubs/Promoters basically screwing people over. Seems like its just part of the business

quite often. another reason why i try to avoid convention centre events. most of the time all the staff are all over, things are underplanned, food sucks (or lack of), security minimal, and the vibe sucks. a shady promoter/club will over sell events just to guarantee a full house (thinking some wont end up showing up or something or be greedy and care about making money rather than the patron). it usually ends in chaos, upset people (who will never go to another event), and bad rep

Posted by Mortyman on Jan-06-2008 19:46:

So some people were disappointed on NYE, it happens. They should do a story on nights that the Guv open up all the rooms and gets ridiculously packed like L.O.L, they could probably do a 1/2 hour story on how unhappy some people get!

I think this story was brought out because someone who was upset knows someone in a higher place. Do they really expect us to believe this was the only event where people were turned away or were really upset they didn't get to enjoy their night?

Personally, I ask, how come they only interviewed that chick sitting in the office at work labelled "disappointed party goer"??? She obviously had something to do with it... she's the only that was interviewed!

Posted by malek on Jan-06-2008 20:23:

Posted by Owen M on Jan-06-2008 20:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Mortyman
So some people were disappointed on NYE, it happens. They should do a story on nights that the Guv open up all the rooms and gets ridiculously packed like L.O.L, they could probably do a 1/2 hour story on how unhappy some people get!

I think this story was brought out because someone who was upset knows someone in a higher place. Do they really expect us to believe this was the only event where people were turned away or were really upset they didn't get to enjoy their night?

there's no one that knows someone "in a higher place" that's ever attended a guv event? It was covered because alot of people were really pissed off and actually did something about it (formal complaints to the better business bureau), instead of coming on tranceaddict.com and filing a formal complaint in the "events review thread"

quote:
Originally posted by Mortyman

Personally, I ask, how come they only interviewed that chick sitting in the office at work labelled "disappointed party goer"??? She obviously had something to do with it... she's the only that was interviewed!

it's a news story..not a bbc documentry. not everyone can be intervied. All sides had coverage in the story.

A public statement was made by the head of the promotional company (Mike Kasser), which he really was crucfied for in all of the facebook event pages

A view from the patrons was displayed in the interviews and the presentation of the facebook groups.

HECFI, the company who runs and manages the Convention center also had statements in the news cast.

******

I just find this really interesting because in our club culture we deal with this shit all the time and still go back the the same places...then complain about it again the next time it happens.

The people who were pissed off and feel they were taken advantage of are doing something about it...and by the looks of it something will come out of it. Weather it's the bare min. of having people tickets refunded for the people who were denyed entry. and who knows what else.

(except the people who didn't get in that paid advanced tickets they for sure deserve $ back)
all three groups in this case have valid arguments against the other at this point. ..I'm just really curious how it's gonna turn out.