The promoter tried to escape Bahrain, but luckily he got caught near the Saudi Arabian border. At that moment, I had no other choice than to stay in my hotel room. At 2 a.m., still nobody had arrived and we heard that police was already on the way to the venue. I still wanted to play at the party, so I was waiting for somebody to pick me up from the hotel and bring me to the venue. with the DJ fee and the money everybody had paid for their tickets. Allow me to explain to you what really took place. Greece and Bahrain are colored dark blue since there were no events held due to cancellation.ĭear fans, I am very sorry for what happened at the Marina Club in Bahrain last Wednesday.
States visited during the tour are orange. On July 6 Tiësto provided an explanation of what had happened on his website: Shortly before closing moments, the crowd started rioting demanding Tiësto's appearance, which forced the local police to intervene.
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Apparently, Tiësto waited until the final hours to get paid in full by the organizers prior to his performance, but according to Tiësto himself they never did. The concert was clearly scheduled on his website, and tickets were still being sold until the last moment by local organizers Prime Time Entertainment and promoter Ayman Al Hamad. Ticket prices went up to $250, and fans from across the region flew in to Bahrain just to attend the concert. Without prior warning, the DJ left a crowd of over 3000 fans waiting until the closing hours. On July 4, 2007, Tiësto failed to show up at his scheduled Elements of Life tour concert in Bahrain's capital Manama. In the meantime 23,000 people were outside the zone hearing and dancing on the streets, the people were standing at the last place that the sound can be heard and dancing on the new album Elements Of Life his newest success. the Eddé Sands beach and the neighbouring beach had reached maximum capacity and thousands had to be turned away having to watch from nearby roads and surrounding areas, at this party 18,000 people bought the tickets to watch the concert. Tiësto completed the Byblos gig which turned out to be a huge success and according to Ya Libnan it has "officially become the biggest event in Lebanon's history" breaking the venue's previous record of 16,000 by several thousand – at 2 a.m. This announcement was later retracted as spurious and based on rumours. There were allegedly plans to kill DJ Tiësto during his DJ set in Byblos on Monday July 2 at the Eddé Sands Hotel & Resort.
In late May 2007 the international DJ scene was in a state of alarm after a Lebanese site, Ya Libnan, announced that Dutch DJ Tiësto would be targeted by the radical Islamist group Fatah al-Islam. On Februhe played in India at the Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad, which was his first show in South Asia. On January 7, Tiesto played to a crowd of 200,000 people in the streets of Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro. South and Latin America brought some of the biggest crowds on his January and February South American leg of the tour. The tour was captured in the ' Elements of Life World Tour DVD'. 3 trucks were needed to transport this set-up across the world. The show featured state-of-the-art special effects, moving water systems synchronized with the music and high-definition video screens. The concept behind his latest album Elements of Life also formed the basis for his global 'Elements of Life World Tour'. The Elements of Life World Tour was a Tiësto tour in support of his album Elements of Life.
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