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  1. #1
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    Unfortunately, through personal experience, I can confirm that the people who run/ran cream in Liverpool (theoretically the 'top dogs') are mainly interested in A) Ripping off good people & B) fannying about on foreign islands sticking cocaine up their bum-bums. The tales really are endless.

    If you want to get your cash out of them you'll need to start a SEVERE fire under their arses - to be honest I just don't think enough of a blaze could be kindled by someone from our scene, it's not enough of a blow to them to lose our support eh. THEY MOST SURELY DO NOT GIVE A **** ABOUT IT. This is borne out by their complete lack of action on the subject...

    Even the fact that they are claiming it to be the fault of the Polish smacks of LAMENESS. It's their ****ing company, if they were really afraid of offending you and/or receiving bad press (like they're getting here) they would be able to sort something out at the drop of a hat. You're not important to them, H. ****ing shit situation but I think that is the bottom line, sadly. So, it's either make yourself important to them (ie such a ****ing nuisance they cannot think without you nipping their heads, which will be difficult and time consuming) or just put it down to experience :-(

    Don't play for them again and make sure everyone knows about the situation (you seem to be doing an admirable job so far)

    CUNTS.
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    well i sent them the last pleasant ( ish ) email today
    last chance ....etc etc ....

    from now in it'll be legal and demanding
    i signed with the polish so not much chance of getting money out of them
    but it might be possible to annoy the english side so much that they just sort me out to get me out of their hair.

    frank kvitta played with me that night at cream
    and i met him again this weekend in austria.

    so i asked him what happened to him and this is what he told me.

    he asked and asked all night on the ( soaking wet ) site until finally someone took notice and told him to hang on.
    so he did, until the end of the event. ( 2 hours after his set finished )

    and finally after more confusion and phone calls
    they tracked down the guy with the cash
    who paid him, in polish zloty.

    of course frank was expecting euros
    and it meant he had to change it at the airport and he lost a fair bit in the exchange. ( 50 euros down he said )

    but the main thing is
    this is cream, a big organization ,
    and they didn't have money ready for him , they must've paid him from the door takings ( which i was told they were still waiting for 2 weeks ago ! another lie !)

    and paying a DJ in zloty is really unprofessional of them don't you think?
    but at least he got his money right?

    truth is , if he hadn't really hassled he would be in the same boat as me
    and i'm only here because they paid me last year so i trusted them.

    well
    next thing is the legal route
    and of course the internet
    when i have a little spare time this week i'll hit the forums and the blogs
    it'll go nowhere i know but i have to do something

    frank said he wouldn't play for them again,
    and i'll talk to tina at knee deep to warn her too.

    perhaps I can persuade people to sign a petition
    or something like that


    what a palarver !
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    Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer View Post
    well i sent them the last pleasant ( ish ) email today
    last chance ....etc etc ....

    from now in it'll be legal and demanding
    i signed with the polish so not much chance of getting money out of them
    but it might be possible to annoy the english side so much that they just sort me out to get me out of their hair.

    frank kvitta played with me that night at cream
    and i met him again this weekend in austria.

    so i asked him what happened to him and this is what he told me.

    he asked and asked all night on the ( soaking wet ) site until finally someone took notice and told him to hang on.
    so he did, until the end of the event. ( 2 hours after his set finished )

    and finally after more confusion and phone calls
    they tracked down the guy with the cash
    who paid him, in polish zloty.

    of course frank was expecting euros
    and it meant he had to change it at the airport and he lost a fair bit in the exchange. ( 50 euros down he said )

    but the main thing is
    this is cream, a big organization ,
    and they didn't have money ready for him , they must've paid him from the door takings ( which i was told they were still waiting for 2 weeks ago ! another lie !)

    and paying a DJ in zloty is really unprofessional of them don't you think?
    but at least he got his money right?

    truth is , if he hadn't really hassled he would be in the same boat as me
    and i'm only here because they paid me last year so i trusted them.

    well
    next thing is the legal route
    and of course the internet
    when i have a little spare time this week i'll hit the forums and the blogs
    it'll go nowhere i know but i have to do something

    frank said he wouldn't play for them again,
    and i'll talk to tina at knee deep to warn her too.

    perhaps I can persuade people to sign a petition
    or something like that


    what a palarver !
    check out yer PM's when you get a chance mate.
    Bás Ar An Impireacht

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    well ...good news

    I got a phone call from cream UK
    and they said thats it's all been sorted

    No idea if it was because i threatened solicitors
    and general internet/magazine slagging
    Or if they just decided to do it anyway.
    and no idea if the UK people paid or the polish ( i don't care anyway )

    I'm still waiting for the money to actually show up in my account
    ( it was sent thursday/ yesterday )
    but the phone call sounded genuine so fingers crossed.

    thanks to all of you for your support
    it's really helped havng a fairly discreet place ( by internet standards )
    to come and sound off, and some of your advice was very useful.
    and cheers for the offers of running articles about it etc..
    it's nice to know there is a network of people who do actually look out for each other.

    it's all about respect isn't it?
    and there's plenty of that here obviously.

    nice one peeps

    h
    love your mum

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    Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer View Post
    well ...good news

    I got a phone call from cream UK
    and they said thats it's all been sorted

    No idea if it was because i threatened solicitors
    and general internet/magazine slagging
    Or if they just decided to do it anyway.
    and no idea if the UK people paid or the polish ( i don't care anyway )

    I'm still waiting for the money to actually show up in my account
    ( it was sent thursday/ yesterday )
    but the phone call sounded genuine so fingers crossed.

    thanks to all of you for your support
    it's really helped havng a fairly discreet place ( by internet standards )
    to come and sound off, and some of your advice was very useful.
    and cheers for the offers of running articles about it etc..
    it's nice to know there is a network of people who do actually look out for each other.

    it's all about respect isn't it?
    and there's plenty of that here obviously.

    nice one peeps

    h
    Yeah, well it should never have gone this far in the first place, especially with an organisation as big as cream. Cream uk should have paid you themselves (out of goodwill if anything) and then taken it up with their polish outfit.

    I take it you wont be offering your services to them again?
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