Musicrooms.net: DJ Cancels Syrian Gig After Death Threats

DJ Cancels Syrian Gig After Death Threats
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MusicRooms on 06 March, 2008
 
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".