Remember Michael Jackson’s amazing tribute event in Cardiff where people bought overpriced tickets to watch Alien Ant Farm, 3T, JLS and LaToya Jackson (aka Michael’s animated corpse) prance around on MJ’s grave?
Of course, most of the Jackson family thought the tribute was in terrible taste, what with it taking place in the middle of Conrad Murray’s trial.
The whole thing was beset with controversy, even to the point where absolutely insane Michael Jackson fans boycotted the whole thing, calling it a scam. Well, maybe those lunatics were onto something because Global Events – the people who put the show on – have now gone into administration leaving everyone who worked on the show unpaid for their work. HURRAY FOR MICHAEL JACKSON’S LEGACY!
The news, reported by Stereoboard (in a less funny way than us) if anyone wants to sue anyone over defamation of character, broke after some of the people who worked on the show went mental on twitter, using the hashtags #unpaidMJTalentTeam and #HELPGETMEPAID.
Sadly, everyone was too busy making jokes about #xfactor to give the vaguest of shits.
Anyway, this looks like a case of a bunch of lighting crew and roadies not getting paid, right? WRONG. The artists haven’t got paid either. Of course, the backstage crew should get paid first because they need the money more and, secondly, the artists should’ve done the whole thing for free if they loved Michael Jackson as much as they say they did.
Of course, now they’ve not been paid, you just watch all the pop stars saying “Oh, we were totally going to give our fee to a charity like Michael would’ve wanted.” You just watch.
A twitter user named Dom Pisani has been tweeting and writing about the whole thing, shouting:
?Not impressed that Global Live Events have gone bust leaving all who work tirelessly on the MJ Tribute concert unpaid!! #unpaidMJTalentTeam.?
They followed this up with:
?Still no payment from Michael Jackson Tribute Concert, apparently even artists are missing money. Doesnt look promising.”
?@Ivy_MJJC @misschiviouss @loakim45 #unpaidMJTalentTeam Keep tweetin guys, we need ppl to notice. Noones paid, guess that means charities too. wud really appreciate you posting it guys, they can’t be allowed to get away with it.?
Another user, Aaron Mavinga, wrote:
?HELP! I worked on the #MJtributeCONCERT last month and Global LIVe Events gone bust. PLEASE RT message #HELPGETMEPAID #unpaidMJTalentTeam.?
Ester GillT-Pleasure Gill (what an idiot name) said on the M4Tribute official Facebook page:
“It’s disgusting that not one person who worked on the concert got paid! A total scam and a real shame to end on! I worked hard on this show and then got told the promoter had not paid any bills at all and went bankrupt over night. What a Scam!! The Promoter should be ashamed of himself for ripping off hard working crew!”
No official word from Global Events as yet, and indeed, there’s nothing to say that these people aren’t lying (we have to say that legally), but y’know, with this being a gossip-based site, we have to report these things between the reviews and photos of boobs.
Looks like, even in death, Michael Jackson can’t catch a break with decent people to work with. Just think about the last person he hired.
Exactly.
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Ha says
Now who would’ve thought that a production surrounding the Wacky Jackys could end in such an epic failure? Just a total surprise! If you were, you know, a complete dumbass that is.
kevin dingo says
thats what happens when you insult michael jackson.. bad things happen. this lot where screwd the moment they stoped listening to fans not that they ever did. if its true and global live have gone bust then its welll deserved. they openly insulted fans aswell as ignoring there calls. global live promised a galaxy of stars instead what they gave was a list of talent show winners, failed artists and people who made a liveing insulting the king. it was only ever gonna end bad.. further more following a freedom of information act request i can confirm that the charitys did not recieve any donations from global live either