Sigur Ros apologise for ‘miserable’ Bestival set


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Icelandic band Sigur Ros have issued a statement on their official website apologising to any Bestival YouTube watchers who were left disappointed by their non-appearance on the website last weekend.

The group were seemingly irked by the event’s organisers who wouldn’t allow them to play in total darkness due to the requests of Stevie Wonder, who headlined immediately after their set, and so decided to refuse permission for their Bestival gig to be streamed on YouTube.

“Sigur Rós would like to apologise to anyone disappointed not to see the band’s Bestival performance live online last night,” the statement reads. “Early in the day a decision had been made to delay broadcast till after the show to give the band a chance to review the footage ahead of webcast, since they were dismayed that their guaranteed ‘darkness’ slot had been pushed into daylight by the expansive demands of the headliner.”

“The band’s only UK show of the year, this would-be highlight of the 2012 calendar, would have to be conducted without proper lights or visuals. Sadly then, a perfect storm of production issues and technical problems conspired to mean that the band went on to have a thoroughly miserable experience on stage too. And to spare everyone’s blushes a decision was made to draw a discrete veil over proceedings.”

Sigur Ros will return to the UK as part of a wider European tour early next year, beginning at the Glasgow SECC on March 2nd. Night-vision goggles at the ready.


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