Richie Hawtin Gets Annoyed, Pushes a Monitor on a Fan (Video)
the story goes richie got tired of this chick on stage filming him so he pushed a monitor on her. granted it doesn’t look like she gets hurt but still, was that the appropriate reaction?
original post: Facebook
Dick move
There’s one thing missing: context. Who knows what she’s been doing the whole night if she hasn’t been in his way, touching stuff, etc. I’ve seen Richie get really friendly with some people at his sets. Maybe he found out his cat died prior to the show. I often used to think I’d react a certain way to certain situations, then I concluded I’ve never been in said situation and truthfully don’t know how I’d react.
Yeah, it appears to be a dick move, but we don’t know what happened leading up to the situation and until there’s a little background I’ll reserve any judegement or lack of.
Until I hear what actually happened, I’m not going to call it a dick move. Some people can be really jealous assholes and those should be roundhouse kicked at some point. If you don’t listen to reason, we’ll try something else.
If we all started kicking annoying people it would be a mad house. I’m surprised that a stage is setup in such a way that a fan can get that close and shove an iPhone up to him.
Hurting someone IS A DorK MOVE.
Let me be clear. I never said to kick anybody just because they annoy you. Most people go away if you just ignore them. It said at some point. If a guy/gal keeps touching my gear and messes up my mixes even after being warned and explained why, and then asked to leave by a security guy, they will receive some physical treatment. That’s the way it works with people that don’t respond to reasoning.
She just looks like an annoying or extremely ignoring person in the video but I’m wondering where is the security.
Word!!
While a part of me understands the frustration any musical act must feel to having a video camera on them constantly whilst trying to do their thang, exuding violence toward them is NOT THE ANSWER! Why didn’t he just stop the music, and go on a diatribe against video recording at what is supposed to be a dance party? That would have been a helluva’ lot more effective, and he wouldn’t be receiving all this negative press.
I lost A LOT of respect for him after seeing this. Regardless of the context, it’s unprofessional, and just plain cruel!
Whats the point of being a rockstar if you can’t throw monitors at people?
Rather have a mon thrown my way by richie then a cake thrown at me by aoki.
It’s like an honor to get smoked by a Hawtin monitor
He looks like he’s doing some kind of aerobics class. He looks like a pretentious jerk.
He goes into full on Tiesto ‘Jesus’ mode which deserves a slap across the face from his mother. Show some humility boy.
Who on EARTH thinks that kind of behaviour is acceptable. There is no back story that would exonerate that action - unless she was a knife wielding maniac and she ain’t, it’s a fan with a bloody phone.
He clearly think he’s so important that he can behave like that. If he had an issue with people on stage you wouldn’t see loads of them on his stage in every bloody video he has online. We all know the pressures that can get to you on stage and we all know people can be pricks but to push what may have been a heavy monitor wedge, probably on a flight case onto a girl is totally reprehensible.
I wish she had got up and knocked 7 shades of shit out of him.
I have nothing of value to add to this really but what a prissy little weenie. His hand gestures and body language is completely dismissive and haughty. It’s pretty obvious the audience near the person filming is taken aback.
He posted an apology and explination on his Facebook
I can see that. It’s a bit of a dork move, but I’ve definitely had things like that happen before.
Well, his apology does not really fit the video of the incident, does it. He does not seem troubled one bit that the speaker fell unto her.
I think Discodromo summed it up nicely on Facebook:
If he wanted to make her “understand” something then I suggest telling her should have been the first course of action.
Maybe he will take a minute to think about how his show should be managed from now and stop letting these idiots get so close to him.
He is of course correct. Those phone/camera lights are blinding and very annoying - tell her stop or tell security to remove her.
What part of pushing a monitor is ever going end well? Whether he intended it to move or not is inconsequential.
“I’m sorry I ran you over in my car. I didn’t mean to, I was just swerving at you to scare you because you shouldn’t have been walking in the road”
Honestly I do some light stretching during my sets. But there’s a reason.