19 August 2007 Sunday | 14:59 | -
Within hours of their return to Taiwan, Sodagreen’s lead singer Wu Qing Feng posted a chunk of text online, expressing his anger and disappointment over the [苏打绿: 这个夏天特别绿 新加坡演唱会] held two weeks ago.
He claimed that the concert organiser:
1. arranged for an autograph session (amongst other events) without their prior consent.
2. promised to give away exclusive singles without their prior consent.
3. produced concert merchandise without their prior consent.
I might not be entirely correct, but from my understanding, most concert organisers/ promoters usually enter negotiations with artiste management companies before committing to other events such as autograph sessions and/or meet and greet sessions before and/or after the concert. In certain scenarios, additional events are held at the premises of concert sponsors, in return for their monetary support.
In most cases, merchandise in the form of clothes, stationery, etc require licensing by artiste management companies. Concert organisers/ promoters usually do not automatically have the rights to produce such items as there is a image rights/ 肖像权 restriction.
The concert organiser hasn’t released any official statements over Sodagreen’s accusations, hence it is too early to pass a verdict over who’s guilty or who’s not.
Nonetheless, here’s an extract of what has been circulating online.
表演的時候都非常的開心
演唱會更是開心到合不攏嘴,想一直唱下去
真的沒想到反應這麼熱情由衷地感激
不過此行除了表演也有很多遺憾的地方
在此向一些朋友說聲抱歉
在整趟旅行之中發現了很多新加坡的主辦單位讓我非常氣憤的地方
例如原本都拒絕的行程,對方卻先斬後奏
連我們老闆經紀人都不用報備就直接替我們答應了很多活動和工作
還為了自保對外說我們不願意配合
甚至在演唱會前原本有安排聯訪,但我完全不知情,我很專心在後台做上台準備
也沒有說我不願意接受訪問,其實我很樂意
可是卻在當天稍晚和隔天陸續聽說,當時負責人去拒絕,而拒絕的理由竟然是宣稱
‘青峰在發脾氣他不願意接受訪問’
這樣的謠言和謊稱實在讓我非常憤怒
整趟的行程都有一再一再被騙的感覺,非常不舒服
所以以後我們再也不會跟這家唱片行合作
另外
我昨天才發現,我們為了新加坡從未發行而帶過去的遲到千年
在台北定價應該是150以內
但是當天販售的價錢竟然換算台幣是400元左右
而且有簽名的還更貴上100元
這讓我們非常震驚與憤怒
另外原本我們早就拒絕簽名會的行程
他卻也自行公佈會有簽名會,甚至也不告訴大家取消了
其實在活動前他拿了一大箱的專輯請我們簽的時候
我就有質疑,這不還是變相的簽名會嗎?
不過為了大家方便我還是簽了
但如果我知道簽了名會讓他哄抬價格,我死也不會簽
所以我前天晚上很生氣地請他一張付我們十元新幣的簽名費
我要捐給慈善機構
不過想當然
他不會理會我的,最後一天連出現都不敢出現
所以在此想鎮重地向那些買了唱片被騙錢的朋友道歉
以後我們會更加謹慎不再讓這些事情發生
不過這一切
都在你們的回應中
得到更大的彌補
謝謝你們
Online interaction between Sodagreen and their fans:
Q: 他說打綠８月１１日演唱會結束后當晚會有場簽名會。我信以為真，也在６至８月間再三的向他確認，他都說有啦。但８月１１日演唱會后並沒發生此事。
A: 演唱會當天我們本來就不知道會有簽名會
一開始也早就跟他說,此行只專注在演唱,其他活動都沒有
可是出發前他給我們的行程表,還是寫著簽名會
可是考量到我們整天從中午彩排到晚上,接著表演也會接近三小時
所以不希望在演唱完還要簽名會
他卻沒有告知大家,自行擅做的決定卻不負責
Q:他原本告訴說所有購票者將會在演唱會當天獲贈蘇打綠單曲一張，
但后來卻在他公司的網站發布消息說出了點狀況所以無法贈送單曲而改為送小禮物。
當晚到了演唱會現場才發現他所謂的小禮物是根不值錢的綠色熒光棒!
A: 對,這件事我也是事後才知道
原來他已經擅作主張說了要送單曲的承諾
卻反過來要求我們送他單曲
我們怎麼可能答應,老實說這次去新加坡,我們一個團員的薪資不超過五千元
公司怎麼可能會有成本可以送大家單曲
他卻還要求我們給他單曲
Q: 他告訴我他們找了專人來設計演唱會的T－shirt。
黑色版花的圖案原是有好幾個顏色而不是現在所見的白色。Hmmmm。。。
我想這也不是真的啊！
A: 我沒有想到自己寫的字會被用在 T-shirt上
這也是事先沒有告知的
我看到的時候非常錯愕
而且我在意的其實是
T-shirt設計的實在⋯⋯
haha…din know smth like this is happening in Singapore… so left behind! Argghhh…
So how’s your leg now? fully recovered? Doing physio I reckon…
Take care!
Nope, not doing physio. Limping around on my own. The improvement isn’t significant, but at least I’m much more mobile now =D
wah!! got such thing ar? cruz, if i nv read ur blog, i wouldnt know.. thanks lar! =P
sodagreen is written as sodagreen. 1 word all lowercaps
read in ptt that they’re saying to just forget this whole thing and stop discussing abt it anymore…
ohwells.
at least they had a terrific perf here, despite all the unhappiness =)
haiz..
actualli..
sodagreen nid nort apologize lors..
its nort their fault..
wow, u din go for physio? hmm… tot e hospital wld ve arranged tat in but tat wld add cost thou… haha… u can do ur own physio exercise i suppose.
but do take care in case e wound hasnt heal completely. u wldnt wan any complications isnt it? guess ur favourite sports, dry swim wld be very safe thou… lolz…
ANTI 梦田!!!
no wonder i thought that shady guy trying to sell the autographed CD looked suspiciously sneaky. heng i never buy from him.
wah lau!!!
if i nv come here.. i also wont knoe…
WTH!!!!!
boycott the stupid company!!!!!
*angry*
He won’t dare to issue any official statements, he deleted the Dreamland Production blog posts after we exposed his lies.
omg. i didn’t know something like that happened.
and i didn’t know he deleted the dreamland production blog posts because their lies were exposed.
aiyeee, why did they have to resort to these methods?
and they’d actually jacked up the price of the singles so much?!
aww!~
although i didn’t mind paying such a price for sodagreen’s single, but they kept the profits!
shouldn’t they at least share it with sodagreen? afterall it’s sodagreen’s work leh. ):
thanks for letting us know about this.
it’s so infuriating. and i totally understand why is sodagreen angry about this. urgh!
it’s not qingfeng’s fault yea.
at least i enjoyed their performance. (:
OMG! I din noe this actually happens. Luckily I did not get any of the Tshirts and the expensive CD single as I thought it was overprice.
No wonder Sodagreen doesnt seems to be too happy on one of the nights when I attended an event here..
Poor thing..