Zouk Singapore responds to trance DJ furore, makes music lovers even angrier

A 20-hour wait for a statement that was being economical with the truth, tsk tsk.

Jeanette Tan| March 07, 09:56 PM

Earlier on Monday, we learned that there was a rather nasty upset that took place at Zouk on Saturday night — world-famous trance deejay Fadi, half of renowned Egyptian duo Aly & Fila, had his set cut short so that the son of a certain neighbouring country's prime minister could take the stage.

Well, not entirely — now we learn, courtesy of a statement from Zouk Singapore, that Fadi was "not at any point of time asked to end his set prematurely before the contracted set end time of 3.30am":

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up from our previous announcement pertaining to Aly & Fila's gig at Zouk on Saturday night, Zouk would like to...

Posted by Zouk Singapore on Monday, 7 March 2016

So okay, at first glance, it looks like this must have been a misunderstanding, like they said it was in their first statement on the matter, right?

That's until you see the comments that follow from people who said they were there:

Screenshot from Zouk Singapore's Facebook page Screenshot from Zouk Singapore's Facebook page

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And who was the "closing dj" this guy was referring to?

Photo by Ben Siow, from Zouk Singapore's Facebook page Photo by Ben Siow, from Zouk Singapore's Facebook page

The fellow on the right is Norashman Najib, one of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's five children.

We'll let the comments speak for themselves.

 

Related article:

Well-known DJ’s set cut short at Zouk so that Najib’s son could play instead

 

Top photo from Aly & Fila's Facebook page.

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