Childish Gambino’s team sent an e-mail inviting fans who attended the rapper-singer’s Newcastle, Australia show in which he was booed to the Listen Out Festival in Sydney, according to Entertainment Weekly.
He is scheduled to perform a full-band set at Listen Out Festival this weekend.
Childish Gambino’s Newcastle appearance was supposed to be a deejay set, information that wasn’t shared with the public, the Entertainment Weekly story says.
“Regardless of whose error in communication that was,” a source told Entertainment Weekly, “Gambino’s team takes it very seriously when fans are disappointed.”
(The original post in this thread ran October 2, 2015. It is as follows.)
Childish Gambino had a performance at the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle, Australia this week and was booed off-stage, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The rapper sat on-stage for 40 minutes before performing. He started his set and while singing a song, the crowd started chanting obscenities and he left the stage. Gambino‘s deejay played “3005” and the crowd rushed the stage, hoping for the rapper’s return, which did not happen. Attendees asked for refunds for their ticket purchases.
The venue’s Facebook page posted an apology yesterday (October 1) for the show.
“To everyone who came to see Childish Gambino show last night we are as disappointed as all of you,” the statement reads. “We had the opportunity to present Childish Gambino to Newcastle in an intimate gig and we jumped at the chance as we aim to bring the best possible acts to Newcastle for music lovers. As seen last night, unfortunately we have no control over the acts performance once on stage. For those that aren’t aware, Canberra and ourselves were 2 additional Childish Gambino shows that were promoted in the exact same way as part of his current tour and we were extremely excited to be presented with this opportunity. Subsequently he didn’t deliver on what was billed and expected by everyone, including us. The Cambridge strives to deliver Newcastle the highest quality live music possible and we will continue to do so. Like you, we were equally excited to present the act and its only matched by the disappointment in the performance by the act.”
Childish Gambino was a no-show at Hot 97’s Summer Jam this year.
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Why did he just sit on stage for forty minutes?
his skinny jeans was hugging his nuts
The DJ was playing. It wasn’t his show. He was there to perform a song. The promoters set this up when they overhyped his part in the Rotalty show. Fuck them and fuck Newcastle.
Because the Internet tour in the US was supposed to start in Oakland, CA but due to technical difficulties the show was cancelled. CG “ended” his tour with a make up show in Oakland and pulled the same ish. Didn’t start for hella long (25-30 min just blank screen with people tweeting bs and drawing crap with the app). My girlfriend and I were like, “Does he wanna start a riot?” For a guy who has a song called “Telegraph” all about Oakland, he really did show any love. :/ smh Still talented af tho. So… props I guess.
But I heard he went outside the Fox Theater during the cancellation and took pictures with fans that night. He even, apparently, brought Jhene Aiko to the make up show. Also, had a random show at the Greek Theater a couple months after that.
Didn’t show any love*
childish gambino sucks fuck the internet
I wonder what would cause him to do that? like what’s he goin through?
Yeah but Newcastle is full of the worst sorts of people, and the show was advertised as royalty. Those that do not fall into the categories of inbred/ bigoted/ lobotomised loved the show. This whole story has been sensationalised by strayan media cos nothing else is happening. Seriously.
Donald Glover has been hinting at leaving the music making business for quite a while now. Perhaps he’s just done with it all. The hype, the desensitization, the overwhelming crowds, the negativity..all things I could absolutely understand playing part in his behavior in this instance. Let’s give the guy a break. He’s a performer, an artist, a human being and so much more. He is not this failed show, he is a human being in the limelight, a difficult light to be under and remain sane. Perhaps he was merely trying to prepare himself. Maybe he was having a panic attack. Maybe he was trying to convey an air of mystery. No matter the reason, he does not deserve the blatant shunning he is getting here.
it was a DJ set featuring Childish Gambino. He was never meant to do a full performance. The promoters just pulled some punk ass shit and used his name to get the crowd. The flyers and posters were done that in a way that set everybody up with the different expectation of it being his show on some bs. I’ll post the link on my next message.
was never advertised as a royalty show is was promoted as a childish gambino show so fans have every right to be angry. They paid money and didnt get what they paid for its fucking simple.
His kids-size skinny jeans was cutting off circulation to his brain.
Why do people put these hipster wannabe soft rappers up on pedestals when they’re clearly crap?
You’re just as jank ass as the assholes at that show that dissed him before he was set to go live. Keep trippin’ fool.
Laughing right now because you clearly have no idea who Bino is / what he’s about… Maybe if you listened to some of his music or watched some of his interviews you’d realize he’s a lot different than the more generic rappers.
LA Beast???
Did anyone actually read that article?? He was harassed by the audience, fuck that, disrespectful assholes. Probably because he’s a unique artist with a different vision. Most people are too close minded to get what he’s about, obviously…. Go buy your Flo rida and your 50 cent tickets since you don’t understand real art.
does Fiddy even do shows anymore? if he does let me know GGGGGGG-Unit
He’s in Australia; they aren’t too kind to black people out there.
That tends to happen when you sit on stage for 40 minutes not doing shit.
rappers are notoriously late. so what? he was there. it was 40 minutes. I remember waiting at least an hour for lupe
I don’t blame him. A festival crowd boo’ed him off stage, who wants to perform for those tards after that.
@rhashad hahaha man so many of them live in this suburb called “Blacktown,” not fucking kidding
he should had weighted off stage until his part came on than ran on stage and start singing. being on stage implies you are preforming.
Weighted??
Weighted?
Preforming?
What are you nine?
with spelling like that you should write for DX LMAOOOOOO
look at the sheep clowning on tra. it’s a comment section of a hiphop news site, not an application for nasa.
He pulled a Kat Williams huh ? He also no showed summer jam I suspect hr having mental issues. I know he battles depression hope he’s alright. Dude is talented.
Gambino WHO? Who is this guy?
well, everyone knows him except you
This dude sucks.. It’s more of a story that there were enough people there to boo him off stage in the first place.