Miss Kitten Vs. Ireland

[kenl]

Found this on my friends website...

Statement from Celtronic (Derry Ireland)

We would rather be sitting at this stage reminiscing about a great

night but

instead we feel compelled to set the record straight about the

actions of Miss

Kittin at our event on Friday night past. After years of

negotiations, we

finally secured a date for Miss Kittin to play at our clubnight. It

was a night

we were really looking forward to enjoying ourselves but due to the

actions of

Miss Kittin, we found this impossible. In all our time of promoting

parties, we

feel we have never been treated so badly by a visiting artist.

The venue we had chosen to put Miss Kittin on was The Nerve Centre

where we have

put on a variety of DJ's and live acts including Laurent Garnier,

Dave Clarke,

X-Press 2, Mylo, 2020 Soundsystem, Jon Carter, Layo & Bushwacka,

Justin

Robertson, Slam, Paul Daley, Tom Middleton, Erol Alkan, Andrew

Weatherall, Lee

Burridge, Mr C, David Holmes, DJ Format & MC Abdominal, Radioactive

Man,

Fingathing, Silicone Soul, Umek, Craig Richards, James Zabiela,

Billy Nasty,

Jazzanova, James Lavelle, Scratch Perverts, DJ Craze, The

Psychonauts, Si Begg.

The Nerve Centre has also hosted some of the biggest names in rock

music

including The Thrills, The Undertones, Ian Brown, The Zutons,

Embrace, Gomez,

David Gray, Sinead O'Connor, The Doves.

Miss Kittin was picked up at Belfast Airport by taxi which

transported her to

The Tower Hotel in Derry where we had booked her the most expensive

suite as

well as an additional room for her manager. On meeting Miss Kittin

and her

manager outside the hotel and welcoming them to our city, we were

greeted by

Miss Kittin with `It's fucking freezing' - no hello, nothing.

On returning to the hotel to bring Miss Kittin and her manager to

the club, we

advised Miss Kittin that the club was next door to the hotel so we

would walk to

the club. After walking no more than 15 metres, Miss Kittin stopped

dead in her

tracks and said `This is next door… where is the fucking club?' We

told Miss

Kittin that the club was just another 30 metres away round the

corner.

We then took Miss Kittin to the boardroom of The Nerve Centre where

we had a

large range of drinks, fruit and various snacks prepared for her.

Initially

refusing a drink, Caroline then said `How am I meant to enjoy myself

tonight.

It took me six fucking hours to get here and I'm fucking freezing. I

could have

been in New York'. Prior to booking her extremely expensive flights,

we had

suggested several alternative travel options to Miss Kittin that

would have got

her to Derry quicker. We also warned her of the regular delays that

take place

at Heathrow on Friday evenings. However there was no flexibility

with Miss

Kittin regarding flights.

Miss Kittin eventually decided to have a bottle of water but

complained that she

did not want the water if it was too cold as she was

already `fucking freezing'.

We then brought Miss Kittin upstairs to the venue to commence her

set. We pride

ourselves on providing everything artists ask for. The setup on

stage was

perfect, as was asked for in the contract. Both our resident DJ's

tried to

introduce themselves to Miss Kittin but were greeted with a

hateful `I don't

understand you'. After starting her set, we are informed by her

manager that

there was a problem. Basically, the problem was that Caroline was

used to

playing in bigger venues in front of larger crowds. At this stage

the venue was

only open an hour and there were nearly 300 people in the venue and

there were

people still coming in to the club.

We are then informed that Miss Kittin will play for 1 hour only and

that we

should have one of our DJ's ready to take over. Informed by her

manager that

there was no way of changing her mind, one of our residents took

over from Miss

Kittin after she had played 75 minutes. At the end of the night,

when paying her

fee to her manager, we asked what should we say to the clubbers who

had came to

the club to hear Miss Kittin. He informed us that we should

lie, `tell the

people she was sick or something as she has fans and she would not

want to

disappoint her fans.'

These are the fans that she refused to acknowledge all night and

basically

refused to play for. We have always found that truth is the best

policy and we

are not going to change now and we don't believe feigning illness

for Miss

Kittin to keep her reputation intact as a good enough reason to

change this

policy. Within the genres of music we promote, we find that the

majority of

people that we invite to play are likeminded people, sociable and

polite but

more importantly professional. In almost eight years of putting on

parties, Miss

Kittin is the outstanding exception to this rule.

We have been lucky enough to host some of the world's top DJ's and

producers

over the years who always retain a sense of honesty and humility.

Derry may not

be as cosmopolitan as New York, Paris or Milan but you will be hard

pushed to

find a more receptive or passionate crowd. Most visiting DJ's

comment on the

great reaction and warmth of the people. There is no excuse or valid

reason for

Miss Kittin's actions on Friday night. She was getting paid a lot of

money to

play records for a couple of hours. All we wanted was for her to do

her job.

[housedog]

What an ungrateful bitch, they should of not paid her isht. Said FUCK YOU to her , and then ask her to leave. She should be happy with the jobn she has, it doesnt matter if there are 3000 people are only 100, she is getting paid regardless.

[xlr8ted]

I hope her womb doesnt work.

[kenl]

I hope her womb doesnt work.

that is evil. hehehe

[funeralhome]

i don't know what to say about that. my favorite dj is a bitch??? yes.....

who cares.. like all these superstar internationally known uber rich dj's aren't all assholes. i'm sure someone will point out *someone* who isn't. although we'd all like to believe our dj's are all about blah blah blah, it eventually becomes business and yes, people become rude and what not oh and yes, finally their parties begin sucking comparable to what happened to dt.

another thing i don't get.. she plays only small parties here. i don't understand how the size of the venue or the amount of people would bother her when she always spins at these wack ass places in new york. i guess she really did want to be here. don't blame her. nothing like minnesota hipster trash drooling over you in LES.

[fratpat]

thats a pretty horrible story....i've read some interviews w/her and knew she was weird as hell, but not just a total ungrateful bitch....i've only seen her once, earlier this summer at amnesia in ibiza doing live PA with the Hacker....i've gotta admit it was a great, unique set but she didnt seem into the crowd at all.....

[dogmatic]

Well if he paid her a penny he's the twat NOT HER!