Jman888 Moderator March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 ticket sold even before the license was granted. Future Music Festival Asia cancelled; festival-goers to get refunds PUBLISHED ON MAR 8, 2015 BY DANSON CHEONG SINGAPORE - The Future Music Festival Asia 2015 will be officially cancelled and festival-goers will receive refunds, said organisers on Sunday. In a post on their Facebook page, the group apologised to festival-goers for the "inconvenience (they) have been put through" and said details on the refund would be made available on Monday. Festival organiser Livescape had twice applied for and failed to secure a public entertainment license from the authorities here. Livescape then submitted an appeal to the Minister for Home Affairs on March 3, but that was rejected too. About 15,000 tickets have been sold for the event, which was scheduled to be held for the first time in Singapore at the Changi Exhibition Centre on Friday and Saturday, March 13 to 14. Big acts such as Public Enemy and The Prodigy were slated to perform. Started in Australia in 2006 and considered one of the biggest dance music festivals in South-east Asia, the event made headlines last year when six of its concert-goers died from drug overdose in Kuala Lumpur. Tickets to the festival in Singapore, which cost between $148 and $388, were sold via Sistic, as well as on the festival's website. [email protected] ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 must be becos they never put SG50 in their promo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman888 Moderator March 9, 2015 Author Share March 9, 2015 Future Music Festival Asia Cancelled Following Reported Drug Overdoses Death toll at Malaysian EDM festival may be as high as six, with three more in critical condition, according to police Future Music Festival Asia overdose death cancellation WRITTEN BY Philip Sherburne March 15 2014 Malaysia's Future Music Festival Asia cancelled its third day today after six attendees are said to have died at the event. The Star reports that six attendees died and three more are in critical condition after collapsing at the event, according to Kuala Lumpur police official Senior Deputy Comm Datkuk Mohmad Salleh. "All tested positive for high levels of drugs and the deaths have been classified as overdose," Mohmad told The Star, which cited "methamphetamines" as the culprit without offering further substantiation. The Star reports that all six victims were Malaysians, between 21 and 28 years of age. Festival organizers disputed the death toll in a statement published earlier today on Future Music Festival Asia's Facebook page. "As at 5.00PM on March 15," they wrote, "we can confirm that one death, and not five, took place on festival grounds on March 14. A police report has been filed and we are working very closely with all relevant authorities in examining and determining the cause of this very unfortunate incident." According to The Star, one attendee died on-site, one on the way to the hospital, and four more at local hospitals. Festival organizers also announced the cancellation of the remainder of the event. "In the interest of public safety we have heeded the authority's advice to not proceed with Day-3 of Future Music Festival Asia 2014," they wrote. Today's lineup was to have been the biggest day of the three-day festival, which opened on Thursday with sets from Deadmau5, R3hab, and Adventure Club, and devoted its Friday programming to Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance showcase, which also featured Paul van Dyk and Markus Schulz. In contrast, Saturday's lineup offered a broad cross-section of pop, rap, and EDM, including Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Pharrell Williams, Knife Party, Eric Prydz, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, Rudimental, Porter Robinson, Baauer, and Martin Garrix, among others. Eight-five thousand fans were expected to attend the three-day event. This was the third year of Future Music Festival Asia, a satellite event of Australia's Future Music Festival, which organizers say has sold more than 1.4 million tickets since its first edition, in 2006. Last August, Future Music Festival entered into a strategic agreement with the Mushroom Group, an Australian entertainment conglomerate whose holdings include festival promoters, record labels, and e-commerce companies. The partnership mirrored the increasing consolidation of the North American event market, as Robert F.X. Sillerman's SFX and rival Live Nation have bought up huge swathes of the formerly independent festival market. As Billboard noted last year, the Mushroom deal strengthened Future Music Festival's position against its chief rival Stereosonic, which SFX acquired in 2013 for more than $50 million. The Australasian market has not been immune to the drug-related fatalities that have plagued events in North America and the U.K. in recent years. Last summer, a 23-year-old man died of a suspected overdose at Sydney's Defqon.1 festival. A week ago, sniffer-dog-assisted police arrested 48 people for drug offenses at Melbourne's Future Music Festival. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wt_know Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 (edited) nabei ... such lapses are not acceptable selling tickets illegally ... the ceo must hara-kiri liao Festival organiser Livescape had twice applied for and failed to secure a public entertainment license from the authorities here. Livescape then submitted an appeal to the Minister for Home Affairs on March 3, but that was rejected too. Edited March 9, 2015 by Wt_know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman888 Moderator March 9, 2015 Author Share March 9, 2015 must be becos they never put SG50 in their promo maybe you are right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vid Hypersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 Why cannot get license leh? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soya Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 nabei ... such lapses are not acceptable selling tickets illegally ... the ceo must hara-kiri liao Maybe he can hire HHH to kpkb at hong lim park n sell tickets there. Consperm better entertainment than the FMFA.......LOL! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustank Hypersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 (edited) anyhow thow rubbish Edited March 9, 2015 by Mustank 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kklim Supercharged March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 http://therealsingapore.com/content/why-does-singapore-have-s377a-still-allows-gay-cruise-come-here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktglfc Hypersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 Don't understand why cannot get licence ... just becos of previously drug abuse in other countries? Like that might as well cancel those year end foam party at sentosa, or count down party lor.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picnic06-Biante15 Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 ticket sold even before the license was granted. I Approved the banned also...... Look at how its went last year in KL with drugs passing around and some got killed by drug overdosed .... :angry: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman888 Moderator March 9, 2015 Author Share March 9, 2015 Don't understand why cannot get licence ... just becos of previously drug abuse in other countries? Like that might as well cancel those year end foam party at sentosa, or count down party lor.... i think because the event attract drug and people who attend may take risk to bring in themselves or 'suppliers' will try to smuggle more in to meet the demand. if the authority wants to do a tight 100% check, many people will have to be hang dun want to face the current indonesia situation 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picnic06-Biante15 Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 Don't understand why cannot get licence ... just becos of previously drug abuse in other countries? Like that might as well cancel those year end foam party at sentosa, or count down party lor.... Selling tickets even before application for licence to operate. Machiam sure approve one......... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toothiewabbit Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 http://therealsingapore.com/content/why-does-singapore-have-s377a-still-allows-gay-cruise-come-here So Future Music Festival is a pink event? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shull Turbocharged March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 I Approved the banned also...... Look at how its went last year in KL with drugs passing around and some got killed by drug overdosed .... :angry: IMO, while the organisers should promote a drug free event, the ultimate responsibilities should still lie in our ICA to stop incoming drugs at the checkpoints. Going by their arguments, our discos and pubs and clubs also have to shut down liao. Since JB pubs/clubs/discos are also full of drugs. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watwheels Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 I think there's more dan that since foreigners from around the region also bought tickets to the event. Maybe it's becoz of security reason too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 must be mata scared ppl go there drink and start riot overturn aeroplane 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcf777 Turbocharged March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 they don't have budget to employ our local "see koh" (kuan tao) or maybe this event is for "supplier" gathering ↡ Advertisement 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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