Buckley
Well-Known Member
http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/08/ten-walls-goes-on-homophobic-rant/
Walking With Elephants? Walking with Idiots....
Walking With Elephants? Walking with Idiots....
Ten Walls Homophobic Rant....
- Thread starter Buckley
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Linzi_x
Active Member
http://www.creamfields.com/announcements/ten-walls-statement
Creamfields have cancelled him. Good idea in my opinion
Creamfields have cancelled him. Good idea in my opinion
Moha
Well-Known Member
mr_why
Moderator
Did someone forget to tell him that House Music was born in the gay clubs of Chicago!
I assume Cocoon will be ditching him too! I can't imagine Sven sharing a platform with after saying this. I mean there are more than a few of us gays inside and outside the DJ booth at Cocoon......
I assume Cocoon will be ditching him too! I can't imagine Sven sharing a platform with after saying this. I mean there are more than a few of us gays inside and outside the DJ booth at Cocoon......
Marsellus Wallace
Active Member
he just killed his career by himself...just look on the posts on facebook...Dennis Ferrer by far the best comment so far! Such an idiot!!
mr_why
Moderator
He can always play in Dubai and North Korea.
HaHa! Yeah indeed! Dubai would play big money for somebody that fitted their view of the World......
Linzi_x
Active Member
https://www.facebook.com/TenWalls/posts/583286488476836
"I now need to take a break and have cancelled my upcoming shows."
Yeah ok, more like they were cancelled for you haaa
"I now need to take a break and have cancelled my upcoming shows."
Yeah ok, more like they were cancelled for you haaa
Alexey M. Popov
New Member
Sadly in my country he also would be more than welcomed (Russia)..
Quite annoying howerver is that those tolerance standards seem to be considered more important than music itself nowadays. I mean, if we judge dj for what he says rather than for what he plays, isn't it also kinda weird?
Quite annoying howerver is that those tolerance standards seem to be considered more important than music itself nowadays. I mean, if we judge dj for what he says rather than for what he plays, isn't it also kinda weird?
DelMarSunset
Active Member
Career suicide..
mr_why
Moderator
Dennis Ferrer:
https://www.facebook.com/dennisferrerobj
Today may very well be one of the saddest days I've had in my musical career. Today I think we all have witnessed a point of view which had no sensibility nor the right to be shared within the very community that had allowed this very person to have a career in the first place. The Gay community is the foundation of which house music was born...it is the roots from which our tree has grown from. This point of view that has been taken is akin to looking your mother straight in the eye...spitting in her face...calling her a dirty whore...and then saying..."I need a new pair of sneakers mom....can I please have the money for them?" At this point it's ARE YOU F'in SERIOUS? And a retracted post and sloppy apology has further enflamed it all.
Now I know everyone in the scene is calling for his head....saying this is 2015 DAMNIT!! But I honestly don't know how to feel about this situation...before you all lose your minds....let me explain:
Dance music's culture is a culture of tolerance. It is where black mingles with white, majority with minorities, gay with straight, languages with sign language all for the one common goal of the freedom of expression. The freedom to dance like the world is going to end...the freedom to look like a freak but be considered normal. The freedom to get as high or drunk as you want and someone turn the other cheek. We can't chose which freedom is right or wrong in our culture. With this being said.....let us all take an honest look at something we might have not all considered...
What if being gay is against this person's religious beliefs?
In the tenets and testaments of the "big three" choosing this way of life is an extreme no no. So....Shall we berate, isolate and destroy someone's career because of a religious belief?
And in doing so are we all ready to begin to carry around atheist membership cards to be shown at the entrance of every venue we would want to enter or play at?
Is this not against the very thing we all cherish?
Food for thought...
In ending...our culture is a culture of secrets...
He did break the rules....
And in our house those rules are:
1. Don't say sh*t that will offend me or my guests
And
2. How about you don't say sh*t at all!!
(Special thanks to Dan for bringing these out of me in a reply lol)
https://www.facebook.com/dennisferrerobj
Today may very well be one of the saddest days I've had in my musical career. Today I think we all have witnessed a point of view which had no sensibility nor the right to be shared within the very community that had allowed this very person to have a career in the first place. The Gay community is the foundation of which house music was born...it is the roots from which our tree has grown from. This point of view that has been taken is akin to looking your mother straight in the eye...spitting in her face...calling her a dirty whore...and then saying..."I need a new pair of sneakers mom....can I please have the money for them?" At this point it's ARE YOU F'in SERIOUS? And a retracted post and sloppy apology has further enflamed it all.
Now I know everyone in the scene is calling for his head....saying this is 2015 DAMNIT!! But I honestly don't know how to feel about this situation...before you all lose your minds....let me explain:
Dance music's culture is a culture of tolerance. It is where black mingles with white, majority with minorities, gay with straight, languages with sign language all for the one common goal of the freedom of expression. The freedom to dance like the world is going to end...the freedom to look like a freak but be considered normal. The freedom to get as high or drunk as you want and someone turn the other cheek. We can't chose which freedom is right or wrong in our culture. With this being said.....let us all take an honest look at something we might have not all considered...
What if being gay is against this person's religious beliefs?
In the tenets and testaments of the "big three" choosing this way of life is an extreme no no. So....Shall we berate, isolate and destroy someone's career because of a religious belief?
And in doing so are we all ready to begin to carry around atheist membership cards to be shown at the entrance of every venue we would want to enter or play at?
Is this not against the very thing we all cherish?
Food for thought...
In ending...our culture is a culture of secrets...
He did break the rules....
And in our house those rules are:
1. Don't say sh*t that will offend me or my guests
And
2. How about you don't say sh*t at all!!
(Special thanks to Dan for bringing these out of me in a reply lol)
mr_why
Moderator
What did he actually have planned in Ibiza? One Cocoon date and a DC10 Life & Death gig I think?
Browny
Well-Known Member
That's the only 2 gigs i can think of
mr_why
Moderator
I'm with Dennis Ferrer on this one. I am gay, but at the same time I don't think everyone should be persecuted JUST because they have a different view about who I am..... Now we can all debate this, but as disco died, went under ground, it was the gays that started moving towards, and creating the house music genre. The thing that is so bad about this is not that he is homophobic (I can deal with that), but that he hates the very people that created the art that he creates, and that he's in an creative industry that has a high number of gay people working in it. On top of the fact that music is supposed to be about tearing down barriers and escaping the World that you leave behind when you enter that nightclub.....