Dirty Forums - Chicks On Speed Man-Handled Off Stage...

One side of the story:

Dear Everyone,

We wanted to let you all know, we had one of the worst experiences of our 10 year musical career on Saturday night, we were physically violated and dragged off stage by security, Ortiz Padillo Promoters and commercial sponsors at Oxigena Festival, near Cordova, in Southern Spain. We were denied our right to perform at the festival as contracted and our fees were not
honoured. It was clear that the public attendance of the festival was extremely low and the promoters wouldn?t allow us to play for this reason, so they could claim insurance on the premise, of a cancelled headlining act. The promoters and Sponsors falsely claimed that the band is late" as we entered the stage at 1.25am, 5 minutes prior to the planned stage time of 1.30am as contracted.

Photo documentation has been taken away from us, our camera was
smashed and memory card stolen.

We want to expose these criminal acts and the organisations
responsible for abusing and robing artists through their business
practices and the unethical networks of festivals and concert
promoters. It's clearly a case of abuse against women, destruction of personal property, breach of contract and assault.

We're pretty freaked out & scared by what we experienced. It would be really good to have your support in any way, the organizers were
trying to make quick cash from the festival. Look out for scammers
that are abusing musicians and swindling young people looking to have a fun evening.

KEEP MUSIC ABOUT ART & CULTURE & A WILD FUN TIME TO BE TOGETHER & NOT A MEANS FOR HORRIBLE MEN TO MAKE PILES MONEY.

Chicks on Speed

(clip at http://youtube.com/watch?v=_BBeGKRveKg&search=chicks%20on%20speed)

To be honest I switched off at the "we're pretty freaked out" paragraph - sounds too much like hamming it up to me (oh I'm so.. psychologically damaged and.. ohmygod I need some prozac!), and like I said only one side of the story..