#485

All kicking off now between Stuart and the Café Oto guy. “No solidarity for exploited artists” vs. “Get off your high horse”.

If I had the tech know-how I’d insert the Harry Hill fight gif right here.

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#486

Stuart’s ex-wife used to work for ATP.

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#487

Chuckling thinking about The National turning up on their tour bus and seeing that

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#488

Was a bit gutted ATP didn’t feature in the Mistaken For Strangers film.
:smiley:

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#489

A wild Stuart appears!

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#490

It’s really baffling the lengths he’ll go to in order to defend Barry. Really weird.

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#491

Really wish my favourite musicians would just fucking log off sometimes. A defunct music festival and its not-very-good-businessman of a promoter isn’t the hill anyone needs to die on.

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#492

Yeh even if they truly believe he’s a “good cunt” as in the Tweet - surely it’s not hard to admit as well that he’s caused some damage to people and punters. It’s an objective fact.

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#493

also don’t like the ‘he didnt do it to get rich’ narrative, so what if he wasnt in it for the money, he clearly got alot out of it, being the big man who could (sometimes) pay bands over the odds while putting on numerous festivals around the world must be quite rewarding

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#494

I do kind of appreciate the sheer brass neck of angrily wading into someone’s replies to defend the festival, then saying they’re weird for talking about it anyway because you don’t actually have an argument.

There does seem to be a mutual thing with musicians that were in the inner circle that got treated better than others and always pop up to defend it. If Geoffy B and Stuart were getting paid on time while others had to foot the bill, then that’s proper dodgy.

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#495

Might heckle Stuart at the Kingston gig

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#496

That final pivot to “chill out lads, it’s just a music festival” is so disappointing.

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#497

“half a decade ago” like that’s some unfathomably long period of time to think that some behaviour was out of line.

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#498

Stuart’s a good guy but i think in social media terms he’s a bit like the new guy on a messageboard who hasn’t got the hang of tone and can get a bit defensive/tunnel-visioned.
But he is a good guy.

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#499

All that needs now is “the exposure for these bands was way more important than getting paid anyway, look at what it did for Mogwai”.

Disappointing.

#500

I wonder if he’s just not that aware of it because his was one of the bigger bands that always got paid and the smaller names were the ones that suffered

#501

need to link him to How to DiS

#502

Given that loads (most? all?) of their staff were freelancers rather than employees, and how I know some were owed loads of money when the business collapsed, I would think that would make him less likely to be wading in to Twitter threads to defend ol Barry

But there we go

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#504

“Despite the chaos, every single one of my invoices got paid before the company was liquidated and phoenixed into a new business. Now I work for a competent promoter.”

Gotcha

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