We fully understand the frustrations of our customer and we are formulating a press release now to better explain what happened last night. There are so many underlying factors and behind the scenes things that were completely beyond our control in this situation. We are having to work through things with our attorney before we can put a proper release out there with what is being done to rectify the situation. We should have something together for everyone by tomorrow.

Thanks
Liquified

I'd say it's a safe bet that we probably shouldn't have more shows at the Trade Center. Their staff seems awful when I went two years ago and it doesn't sound like they've improved whatsoever.

The only event I remember hearing go well there was MJ's party but I'm assuming the turnout for that was nowhere near 5000.

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mst be some serious things going on if devin gets his lawyer involved. hope this doesnt get ugly.

I also was not able to attend the show I had a friend with a extra ticket that I had paid for night of and was also turned away. Had a feeling things werent going to go right and I was right. The let down is getting very old.

I don't see how Devin / Liquified could explain this, or how it's anyone's fault other than their own:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-4XSSQ6Go

Who sells the tickets? Who checks "will call" at the door of all the events?

Don't try to host an event that you can't handle. Don't try to host an event at the SAME venue if you can't learn from previous mistakes.

Accept the fact that you guys royally fucked up and pissed a LOT of people off.

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lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRY...feature=channel

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Originally posted by trancension lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRY...feature=channel

Wow!

Anytime I've ever interacted with him, he's always been a bit of a douche bag, but that's just WAY over the top.

Unless, of course, he had to go take a massive dump?

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Tocadisco feat. Nadia Ali - Better Run (Wippenberg Mix)
Tritonal - Suede (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
Arnej - They Need Us
Zoo Brazil feat. Leah - You Can Have It All (George Acosta Remix)

The blame for last night might be distributed among many parties: NATC, GCPD, unruly clubbers, event staff, Liquified. Ultimately, the victims are going to blame the company listed first on the flyer, and I think that's reasonable.

People tend to praise Liquified when it organizes an epic show, so why should Liquified skirt responsibility when there's an epic failure? I'm sure we'll hear an explanation for the failure, but it's simply shocking that Liquified and the event staff couldn't step up and dynamically respond to the issues outside -- by opening more entrances, repurposing security personnel, what have you -- especially when you consider that the reputation of the business was at stake. I mean, Liquified's name is on the flyer: Why shouldn't we expect answers and a prompt apology?

NATC and Liquified had 500-1000 people waiting outside for 2-3 hours. That's ~1875 person-hours, and ~$37500 for tickets alone, potentially $37500 of lost future sales if Liquified were to plan a comparable event for next year. At what point does someone -- anyone -- running the show glance outside, take some initiative, and say, "This is a likely shitstorm. This situation might hurt someone, and it will definitely hurt our bottom line. Maybe we should adopt a new strategy?" That's not a hypothetical question. I'm genuinely curious why that didn't happen.

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Originally posted by Calamar The blame for last night might be distributed among many parties: NATC, GCPD, unruly clubbers, event staff, Liquified. Ultimately, the victims are going to blame the company listed first on the flyer, and I think that's reasonable. People tend to praise Liquified when it organizes an epic show, so why should Liquified skirt responsibility when there's an epic failure? I'm sure we'll hear an explanation for the failure, but it's simply shocking that Liquified and the event staff couldn't step up and dynamically respond to the issues outside -- by opening more entrances, repurposing security personnel, what have you -- especially when you consider that the reputation of the business was at stake. I mean, Liquified's name is on the flyer: Why shouldn't we expect answers and a prompt apology? NATC and Liquified had 500-1000 people waiting outside for 2-3 hours. That's ~1875 person-hours, and ~$37500 for tickets alone, potentially $37500 of lost future sales if Liquified were to plan a comparable event for next year. At what point does someone -- anyone -- running the show glance outside, take some initiative, and say, "This is a likely shitstorm. This situation might hurt someone, and it will definitely hurt our bottom line. Maybe we should adopt a new strategy?" That's not a hypothetical question. I'm genuinely curious why that didn't happen.

Very well said, my friend.

And surely they realize the "snowball effect" this has on Atlanta's EDM scene as a whole...

People now start refusing to do to Liquified shows because of their fuckup last night. Attendance to shows dramatically drops. Suddenly, DJ's refuse booking in Atlanta. Next thing you know, Liquified has single-handedly screwed an entire city over because they couldn't handle their own mess.

The whole "Give me $20 to cut in line" bullshit is downright, pure greed. And people paid it. The ones that didn't...we see what happened to them. It's called taking advantage of your customers.

If I were the "competition" right now, I'd be foaming at the mouth...prime opportunity to shine right about now.

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Robert Burian feat. Zdenka Predna - You (Club Mix)
Tocadisco feat. Nadia Ali - Better Run (Wippenberg Mix)
Tritonal - Suede (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
Arnej - They Need Us
Zoo Brazil feat. Leah - You Can Have It All (George Acosta Remix)

First of all, I was asking earlier about VIP tickets. I am GLAD AS HELL I didn't buy any; the VIP "area" was a joke.

Second of all, last night was indeed an epic failure. People waited in line for 3 hours. Then about 500-1000 were forced to leave. They reopened the doors after those people left, and I got in a little before 2 AM. His set sucked until the very last hour, and even then it was pretty generic Tiesto (although Tiesto is good, so generic Tiesto is good, but anyways)

Also, it was indeed a security officer inside who threw some type of mustard gas inside, everyone was crying. I think it was to disperse a fight that was breaking out.

Man, oh man, and I spent $60 on a hotel, $20 on fucking parking. It was ridiculous. I don't blame Liquified as much as NATC, although I hope they send out refunds.

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Originally posted by mistiso Wow! Anytime I've ever interacted with him, he's always been a bit of a douche bag, but that's just WAY over the top. Unless, of course, he had to go take a massive dump?

Damn I really don't know what to think of that video or this whole situation...? I feel really sorry for you guys this sucks! Hope another promoter group comes out to do something epic to shut down Liquified.

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