DJ Cancels Syrian Gig After Death Threats

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Dutch tech trance DJ Marco V last week confirmed he was pulling out of a potentially groundbreaking gig in Syria after receiving death threats.

Marco would have been the first international DJ to play the Syrian capital of Damascus, where the kids are presumably keen to get down to some proper tech trance nonsense, but some groups in the city were less keen and sent the DJ, his management and his website various threatening messages. Having consulting Dutch and Syrian authorities Marco decided it wasn't safe to DJ there.

DJ Mag quote Marco thus: "Obviously we get all kinds of comments on the message boards, mostly positive, some not so good, but never anything like the death threats we received this week. I am very upset that I won't be able to make it; it would have been a first for me, and a first for Syria. At the end of the day we had to consider what's happened and take what is sensible advice. Hopefully one day the situation in Syria will allow international DJs such as myself to come and play as we do in every other part of the world".