are you there please ? hello mel, i'm one of those responsible for that secret gig fiasco I know jon told me he explaind it to you you didn't know about it all ? no err... you weren't contacted by someone nicknamed starlight, or flaviusier@yahoo.Com about it ? Xavier told me of his intentions and I disagree wholeheartedly with the idea I am Xavier. I don't recall telling you about it all until 4/5 days ago, i wasn't really involved it was "managed" but Flavien you wrote to tell me your discontent with the NME Xavier Bordier? err..... the last one i remember is the 'Kid A in Alphabet land "thing. but you are responsible for a false report? i'm sorry it was that much of a problem. we knew it was reallt childish, but we all thought the nme need a smack on the nose i came up with the "secret gig" idea, and a few others. maxk helped us forget the bad ideas, and so we chose the secret gig one. I think the only people you attack is those closely associated who have to deal with the outcome yeah, well, it's true. it wasn't the idea, but it's true. and field the numerous e-mails and phonecalls to verify we knew there were gonna a lot of mails, but thought that it's take just one day for the nme to write something, and then it would be over now it IS over. flavien told me that, over the msgboard, he told you that you "didn't believe in fighting fire with fire", and a few days after that we shouldn't take much care in what you say, so we all understood you kinda agreed on the idea. it hits the hardest here and with the management team - I expressed my intense dislike of any false rumours and I promise you that the people who are working the hardest get the most affected that I don't agree with fighting fire with fire is the truth we all are deeply sorry. didn't know that would be that big a deal. with max's support, i guess we felt free to do anything I do not agree at all with your idea of dealing with it whatsoever - hence my statement of fighting fire with fire understood. how so? fire with fire is a very obvious statement of my discontent well, it's all word of mouth, i guess : you write something to flavien who then tells me what he thinks you said, and..... there's the result i'm sorry it gave you all a tiring end of the day I hope it will stop now i'm expecting the nme the write something about it all... oh, the irony. it has stopped already greenplastic was the first to put the story online. questions then started, and seeing your reaction, he told everyone to forget it that's me. i don't have that mail in my outbox, for some reason grmbl I don't think it serves any purpose to make stories up that are untrue yes, of course. but.... i dunno, we were all mad to see what the nme kept write, you know, "we should do something"..... that's kindergarten thoughts, sure jon/gp alrady put the story offline, so your phone lines should be safe again and all that is damaged is the time it takes for myslef and others to negates those stories but I don't understand what you hoped to achieve? yes, yes, but again, we thought you knew about it....... i guess we didn't do enough preparation, only Flavien, MAx and I really knew what was going to happen we hope to "prove" that the NME doesn't check its news, and whenever there's "Radiohead" somewhere they print it right away for what end? show that the NME is no journalism. I mean, that anouncment about the "Kid A" listening, sickening why so? err...... nothing for the fun of it, i guess "prove us right" i feel silly prove what? - that anyone can make up stories? prove that the nme would take any story, even made up why so much hatred? for what end? well, the last couple of month has seen a lot of "worldwide exclusive reviews" from the nme, stolen from followmearound or else... it kept building and building, the "Kid A" thing was the last straw... no end. just prove oursleves worthy, and the nme unworthy. childish, i know, i know. i feel so dumb. but they sell papers - it's another world to me not something to go above they also run a website. and they check the msgboard and FMA's ML daily. most of the news on the site is taken from FMA. I have the band's interest at heart as to what they want to say when they want to say it to know that is is confirmed and of real interest to anyone who likes the band to not disappoint without confirmation yes, i know. we thought it was also some kind of band's interest, the make the nme leave "us" alone. i'm not looking for fogiveness, i try to let you know about our motives. a bit late, i guess. I think you go against it to do what you have done sorrysorrysorrysorrysorry, what can is say. won't do it again....... ture true was the brad pitt/jennifer anniston your doing? didn't think the motives up enough, i guess. now we get smack on the nose nope ! the pitt's wedding is NOT mine. and not any of the webmasters, to my knowledge. just something again that we have to deal with this was rather funny, though. but i guess you received a few calls ask for the band to come to some wedding...... in a time where we are working flat out what can i do to repair the damages. the story is now offline and dead...... yes....... i guess the only fun was on our part of the internet. Just please do not make up any more stories It really hits hard on our workload oooh, that's a clear evidence we won't do it again. at least not without your agreement. which means never again, i guess it saddens me that waste was the only people hurt by this.... i mean........ oh well.....sorry, i don't know what to say never again thank you for that well, thank YOU (all) for understanding that hitting waste was not the idea. it didn't not even came to our mind that it would hit you that's the failure in our thinking. well, huh... still friends ? and I am happy to put it behind us all if it doesn;t happen again excuse-me, english limits there, i didn't understand that one. je ne suis qu'un petit français please do not make up false stories we won't. promise. i think i speak for everyone involved when i say that we learnt a lesson today. and damn it hurts. i mean, i feel really stupid about it all. i feel like for the last couple of weeks i was 15 or something. thank you - it really does make an impact and something I don't agree with at all night night yes, i kinda understood that you were the first ones (if not the only) touch by the wave we g'nite ok hope you can forgive us froggies some day =) i thinkg i should shut up. good night, thanks for taking the time to talk with me. take care - no hard feelings at all - annoyed -yes? it has taken up a lot of my day please do not do it again ok. i was hoping for the "no hard feelings" part. thanks. good night mel. bye night