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November 19, 2009

Screwed by the 'Promoter', Mayhem Explain Their £4000 Hotel Thrashing...

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Norwegian band MAYHEM have explained why they trashed a hotel room in the Netherlands on Sunday night, leading to the arrest of some of the band and crew.

Hotel staff reported over £4000 worth of damage including smashed TVs, broken plant pots, damaged walls, mirrors and sinks. Police held some of the black metal touring team until costs had been covered.

Now Mayhem frontman Attila Csihar has explained the band were furious after being conned by their booking agent then finding the hotel was not up to their standards.

He says: “I wasn’t involved so I wasn’t arrested. But what happened is that the 18-year-old promoter disappeared with our £2500 advance a couple of days before the first show of the tour.

That’s the problem with the internet – anyone can act like a booking agent. He continually lied, saying everything was booked. But we found out at the end we had no flights and nothing had been organised except promotion at the local clubs and sales of hundreds of tickets in advance.



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