Pretty poor show for those involved

The papers have been full of the Tiesto fiasco recently and blame is being thrown left, right and centre, with as many people as possible trying to distance themselves from the whole fiasco by pointing the finger elsewhere. Personally, I blame everyone.

The organiser certainly has a lot to answer for especially if the world’s Number One DJ was not fully paid for his appearance.
The details of how much – and in what currency it was to be delivered – should not have been left to sort out on the night of the event.
Tiesto claims that he still wanted to show up for his fans but had no way of getting from his hotel to the venue.
OK … This is a man who travels the world with his entourage on a regular basis, earning a fortune going from venue to venue in one foreign country after another and yet hasn’t got one single person working for him that could have picked up the phone in his room at the Diplomat and asked the receptionist for a taxi to drive him across the road to the Marina Club?
It seems one of the warm up DJs – DJ Hanane – kept promising the crowds that Tiesto was back-stage and would be on at any minute but three hours later the man-of-the-hour still hadn’t made an appearance. Considering there is a complete lack of any types of ‘back stage’ this quite blatantly added insult to injury for the concert-goers.
As for the fans themselves, I can completely understand why they were upset, but to go off on a mini-riot is just another sad reminder of the ‘yob mentality’ that seems to be taking the world by storm these days.
Other then venting some anger and feeling like a complete tit the next morning, there really isn’t anything to be gained by going on a rampage and destroying other people’s property.
It seems that violence is the answer to everything and showing aggression the norm and when they work as a team they can some how magically absolve themselves of any direct responsibility for there actions.
It’s getting harder and harder to open a newspaper without reading about another riot or violent protest and this latest incident is just another symptom of a much larger problem.
There’s no missing the blatant irony that riots start when people are unable to make themselves understood to their satisfaction with words alone and hit out in frustration.
Many riots these days are over the state of affairs in other countries but how are we supposed to be able to try and stop war when we cannot even communicate with our own without resorting to violence?