A Message From Hot Chip

We didn't play at the Gatecrasher festival on Sunday and would like to apologise sincerely to any fans who bought tickets and may have wanted to see us perform. The stage was deemed unsafe by our technical crew, and it looked like any performance would have been short lived, as our equipment would soon have short-circuited in the rainy conditions, with the additional possibility/probability of our good selves receiving hefty electric shocks. So after long deliberation we had to cancel the show, we were not alone in making this decision as I believe other bands also could not play the main stage.

Again, we regret the way the situation panned out and hope that people might have the opportunity to see us at some of the other UK festivals we're playing this summer including Glastonbury and Bestival.

Kind regards,
Hot Chip

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  1. chloe lennox
    on 31/05/2008 14:05:07

    I've seen ranier conditions at previous festival and other bands have still managed to play. Personally, I don't blame in on the banks, I blame in on gatecrasher's lack of organisation. So I'll never be attending a gatecrasher event again, but I will be looking forward to seeing hot chip at benicassim this year.

  2. Lisa
    on 01/06/2008 23:03:16

    Agreed with Chloe - Gatecrasher should have prepared for rain - it's a British event! No communication telling us what was going on, no back up plan. Dissapointing.

  3. daine horstman
    on 02/06/2008 08:32:21

    i defientley agree. im travelling from australia and will proberly not have an oppertunity to see those 2 bands again playing at an event like that. And then absolutely no offer of some small refund. I know everyone got to see a heap of other acts but dont kid your self gatecrashers. the chemical brothers and hot chip would have pulled in a large proportion of your sunday visitors. Dont be haters and help your fans out, dont weasel out of it because of a loop hole printed on your tickets!

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