MK interview on Huffington Post

[ds1984]

If you look at some MK/DS timeline you'll see that some private shows have been performed through the years, not often but a few.

Mark is a professional artist, live gigs is part of his living, in that sense he is just hired to do his job. About the last couple of privates shows it seemed that it was really part of a deal supporting the tour. The Rover show well it was the company that drove mark all over its European tour. The US private gig was less obvious but from what I heard it was a way not to lose too much money on the short US tour.

Usually corporate gigs are not publicised so were are entitled not to know about it but hey this internet time and almost everybody (but me) owns a  smartphone...

And even a few public shows in the recent years were ridiculously so high priced tix  such as Monaco or Floriana.

That said, even for private shows, Mark wouldn't play for some people/corporates even if offered a bunch of dollars to do so.

[sweetsurrender]

Sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm still angry. And I stopped listening Tracker for second day now, and I can't help it.

If Mark will say just one other proud word about cancelling Russian shows I'll throw all his records out of the window and will never listen it again.

I disagreed with Mark's decision also. But I love him too much,
 I would never throw away my cds or stop listening to him.

[foma]

Sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm still angry. And I stopped listening Tracker for second day now, and I can't help it.

If Mark will say just one other proud word about cancelling Russian shows I'll throw all his records out of the window and will never listen it again.

I disagreed with Mark's decision also. But I love him too much,
 I would never throw away my cds or stop listening to him.

Wait till' he'd cancel the whole US tour for a small reason and we will see

[Marijo58]

Sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm still angry. And I stopped listening Tracker for second day now, and I can't help it.

If Mark will say just one other proud word about cancelling Russian shows I'll throw all his records out of the window and will never listen it again.

I disagreed with Mark's decision also. But I love him too much, 
 I would never throw away my cds or stop listening to him.

I can understand that you're angry because I think he shouldn't mix political things with Music! He has afterall a lot of Fans in Russia!!!!! But I couldn't either throw away his CD's if he would decide to cancel his shows in France!! Lucky for us  this year that we were not voting for the presidency because if the FN in France was winning he would surely do it!!

[ds1984]

Sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm still angry. And I stopped listening Tracker for second day now, and I can't help it.

If Mark will say just one other proud word about cancelling Russian shows I'll throw all his records out of the window and will never listen it again.

I disagreed with Mark's decision also. But I love him too much,
 I would never throw away my cds or stop listening to him.

Wait till' he'd cancel the whole US tour for a small reason and we will see

He could, death penalty - even for  intellectually disabled people - would be a valid reason to ban USA from touring, or at least states that still do it...

[foma]

He could, death penalty - even for  intellectually disabled people - would be a valid reason to ban USA from touring, or at least states that still do it...

Saw it today in my Facebook feed:



So where your super mighty powers, Mark? There's a death penalty in USA and you going to play there. You're bad guy!

[ds1984]

You can't put all things on the same level. Otherwise you end alone because there always something about protesting.

But, from a personal point of view, would be glad to hear and see Mark actively acting against death penalty.

So far Mark is still supporting AI and thus in a a way is protesting against that.

The human right's in Russia seems unfortunately quite worse than in the US. But we can hope that things will turn better there in the future, the question being how long.

[Pottel]

I think he was upset cos a girl band was chucked in jail for singing in a church. If it had happened in UK, the cops would have removed them and let em go or not even have responded at all.   

And here starts part nor Mark or general public don't know. Those girls are actually experienced troublemakers, they did not only singing in church, one of them once had s*x somewhere in public, while being prengant, they had another bad 'concert activity', this singing in church was just a last drop. Not talking about their music being pure dog's food, they're punks in the most disgusting meaning of the term.

And what Mark reads? 'Three poor Russian girls being thrown into jail for 2 years!'. And thinks 'I'm gonna cancel the tour over there'.

He cancel the tour in Russia because he admires girls who had s*x in public while pregnant or something like that? He should know the whole story first.

foma, what  is wrong with having  s e x? in public? got more details on that? i mean, she did not shoot heroin in public, while being pregnant. pregnant people have s e x ual desires too.
also, what is wrong with being a punk, besides the fact that it may not suit your, or my lifestyle? each their own, i would say.
do not get me wrong, i am not here to get in a fight, i just wonder.
where did you get the information from? i may be naive, but how much of the media in russia is not somehow state controlled? if you disagree, name me one media outlet that is not controlled by the state. i know that RT is not one of them.
anyways, as you said, let us listen to the music, and mark make it, the rest is out of our hands.

[Pottel]

Sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm still angry. And I stopped listening Tracker for second day now, and I can't help it.

If Mark will say just one other proud word about cancelling Russian shows I'll throw all his records out of the window and will never listen it again.

I disagreed with Mark's decision also. But I love him too much,
 I would never throw away my cds or stop listening to him.

Wait till' he'd cancel the whole US tour for a small reason and we will see

He could, death penalty - even for  intellectually disabled people - would be a valid reason to ban USA from touring, or at least states that still do it...

or indiana, where, just like in russia, homophobic laws were just released. true, in the end there are so many places he could not go to....

[ds1984]

or indiana, where, just like in russia, homophobic laws were just released. true, in the end there are so many places he could not go to....

Unfortunately there no country with perfect democracy.

But unbelievable that in 2015 the USA can support this type of discrimination.

What's next step?

[Pottel]

or indiana, where, just like in russia, homophobic laws were just released. true, in the end there are so many places he could not go to....

Unfortunately there no country with perfect democracy.

But unbelievable that in 2015 the USA can support this type of discrimination.

What's next step?

the US also does indeed execute people with a proven mental handicap. go muricah...

[ds1984]

or indiana, where, just like in russia, homophobic laws were just released. true, in the end there are so many places he could not go to....

Unfortunately there no country with perfect democracy.

But unbelievable that in 2015 the USA can support this type of discrimination.

What's next step?

the US also does indeed execute people with a proven mental handicap. go muricah...

This is what I wrote a few page ago maybe without using the correct words (mentall handicap  = intellectually disabled): "He could, death penalty - even for  intellectually disabled people - would be a valid reason to ban USA from touring, or at least states that still do it..."

[dustyvalentino]

In America most of these issues come down to religion. Same as many other problems we face worldwide.

[shangri la 1]

In America most of these issues come down to religion. Same as many other problems we face worldwide.

Agree 100%. Christian principles are great. Individual denominations interpretations and their own sense of ownership are the problem.
Fossil fuel reliance is the other problem world wide. Not just climate, but the wars that aren't based on religion are mostly based on the stuff that nature sequestered under the ground for us.

 

[foma]

Guy confirmed today on his forum that, basically, Russia is the only troubled country in whole tour route. So apparently all the rest are totally liberal.

To me deliberate avoiding of specific country on whole tour is more human rights violation than things they are actually trying to fight with.

I'm afraid the tour is complete as announced. Apart from (the human rights violations) in Russia, current political situations have nothing to do with the tour routing.