Disclosure Hit Back After Being Accused Of Pulling A 'Guetta' At Capital FM Summertime Ball
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
House and garage duo Disclosure have hit back at online critics who’ve slammed their recent performance at the Capital FM Summertime Ball, after they were seen ‘miming’ their DJ set for the Wembley Stadium gig.
The pair, who topped the UK Albums chart this week with their debut album ‘Settle’, were invited to perform at the recent show, but after Facebookers noticed that they were ‘performing’ with no headphones and their decks not even plugged in (most commonly known as a ‘Guetta’!), many started to criticise them - one Facebook group (‘I Love Bass Music’) even posted a picture of their set-up, highlighting an unplugged CDJ.
After seeing the photo themselves, Disclosure - brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence - took to Facebook to clear up exactly why they’d played in such style, claiming that Capital FM wouldn’t let them play live - and that they weren’t even trying to mime or ‘trick’ fans into thinking they were.
Guy wrote:
“Hello I Love Bass Music and everyone who is talking about this photo... so. here is how and why this happened. Capital FM made us do this show with a backing track playing but allowed the vocalists to sing. They said that they had to trigger the tracks themselves to sync visuals. We pleaded with them for weeks and weeks to let us play fully live or at least let us mix but they just weren't having it. You will also notice this was the same for a lot of the dance acts playing that day (i.e. the duke dumont pic you posted)
“It was incredibly frustrating and horrible for us to hear our music at Wembley and not actually be able to play it ourselves, as anyone with any knowledge about disclosure knows that we play fully live seen here... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=THeSe3XqObQ AND can mix...//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTAhk7FXb-I
“Notice also that we didnt try and make it look like we were mixing. We left the fucking plug on the floor on purpose, didnt even plug phono leads into the master out, turned all the EQs fully down and the master out AND DIDNT EVEN TAKE HEADPHONES for god sake!! LOL if at any point we touched the mixer it was...well, you try standing infront of 80,000 people and not touching the mixer... go on... its really hard hahaha!
“I would also like to point out that people like David Guetta ect who have also been accused of pretending to mix, actually try and cover it up and pretend to blend tracks into one another and hide it... but with us, we played three songs with vocalists b2b with gaps in between, so even if we had been mixing, there would have been no beat matching involved anyway + we didnt try and hide it at all!!”
Although they did blame Capital FM, they went on to praise the station, and finished the statement saying:
“But yeah it was a very strange experience and one we will not be going through again. Capital have been amazing to us and they play our songs roughly 400 times a week across their various networks and we wanted to thank them for all the support.”
Although no-one likes a mime, it seems that this incident was out of Disclosure’s control, and we agree with their point about David Guetta - at least they weren’t trying to hide the fact they weren’t actually performing.
If you’d like to see Disclosure mixing and performing live for real, you’ll be happy to hear they’ve announced a UK tour for the autumn - check the dates and links below to find tickets through Stereoboard!
Sat August 17th 2013 - LONDON The Garage
Sat November 16th 2013 - BRISTOL O2 Academy Bristol
Mon November 18th 2013 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Tue November 19th 2013 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 Academy Newcastle
Sat November 23rd 2013 - SHEFFIELD O2 Academy Sheffield
Sun November 24th 2013 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Mon November 25th 2013 - BRIGHTON Dome
Wed November 27th 2013 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
Thu November 28th 2013 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Fri November 29th 2013 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
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