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We think that each second a shot is fired in the Middle East and we have to take cover to avoid shrapnel. I have been to Israel, Jordan, Beirut and Dubai within the last 3 months and it has been great each time! Those people over there know exactly what goes on in the music business, but Beirut has been to most bizarre though. They had photocopied the cover of my album ‘Shivers’, enlarged it by a factor 100 and suspended it behind me on stage. There were about 6,000 people in Lebanon (the week after my big event in Rotterdam) chanting my name again! You would think that a country dipped in misery, at war with Syria, where fundamentalists are a constant threat, can explode at any moment. But to me it was one big happy event with smiling faces everywhere.
guys this was taking from an interview with armin van buuren done by Hans Temmerman
http://forum.arminvanbuuren.com/viewtopic.php?id=5223
here is another one!
I just got home from a small tour in the Middle east and Asia. It surprised me once again how different the world looks when you actually go and see it. For example, I thought of Beirut as a place with a lot of violence because of the things you hear in the news. Boy was I wrong. The media can really give you a misplaced view of the world. When I arrived at the venue there were 4000 people cheering my name. And I had never been there before!! It was a fantastic party and a suburb production and I didn’t want to stop playing!! The next day we went to a cafe in Beirut to eat something and the people in the cafe were singing all my songs and still dancing.
http://www.ivibes.nu/index.php?article=4249
cheers guys!
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