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Tiesto-weekend
04/06/07 19:43 Filed in: TV
In the past couple of weeks - especially due to his
recent world tour - we've been seeing Tiesto quite a
lot. It's been enhanced when he arrived here to have
two gigs on the same weekend, one with the tour, and
one smaller gig for the hardcore fans the next day.
We were filming on both, but the second one had another task for me, being the warm-up dj for Tijs.
On Saturday, not long after his arrival to Budapest, Tiesto started his usual rounds of interviews, and I had a slightly different thing to do this time besides my show, Laptop Dj:
I was stunned to hear that a few days before Tijs agreed to participate in Hungary's premier hidden camera show to make a complete fool out of someone who was supposed to interview him. (Kinda like Punk'd on MTV, where celebrities got the cold shower.)
What was my role then? As some kind of coordinator, I had to tell him what to do to make the perfect wind-up: he had to be so offended by a certain question that after jumping up and storming out of the room (cursing in Dutch) he simply "canceled" the gig on that night. (The question was about his marriage which went down the drain just a week before the actual event, when his bride left him. Of course the story was made up by us)
Poor reporter had some VERY bad moments when Rogier, the tour manager rushed into the room shouting wildly about his responsibility about "what's gonna happen".
The hidden cam show never had an international star as a decoy, so it was a very memorable event for us, and Tijs assured us, it was his first too. We all had a great time.
On top of all this, I bumped into BT in the hotel lobby (he was participating in the tour too), of course I had to interview him as well. I've never thought I will talk about (Hungarian composer) Bela Bartok in my show once...
The tour gig according to Tijs the next day was "the best in the tour so far". Hell yeah, it was...
The Palace party on that day was top notch, Tiesto's Hungarian fans surely know how to party.
We were filming on both, but the second one had another task for me, being the warm-up dj for Tijs.
On Saturday, not long after his arrival to Budapest, Tiesto started his usual rounds of interviews, and I had a slightly different thing to do this time besides my show, Laptop Dj:
I was stunned to hear that a few days before Tijs agreed to participate in Hungary's premier hidden camera show to make a complete fool out of someone who was supposed to interview him. (Kinda like Punk'd on MTV, where celebrities got the cold shower.)
What was my role then? As some kind of coordinator, I had to tell him what to do to make the perfect wind-up: he had to be so offended by a certain question that after jumping up and storming out of the room (cursing in Dutch) he simply "canceled" the gig on that night. (The question was about his marriage which went down the drain just a week before the actual event, when his bride left him. Of course the story was made up by us)
Poor reporter had some VERY bad moments when Rogier, the tour manager rushed into the room shouting wildly about his responsibility about "what's gonna happen".
The hidden cam show never had an international star as a decoy, so it was a very memorable event for us, and Tijs assured us, it was his first too. We all had a great time.
On top of all this, I bumped into BT in the hotel lobby (he was participating in the tour too), of course I had to interview him as well. I've never thought I will talk about (Hungarian composer) Bela Bartok in my show once...
The tour gig according to Tijs the next day was "the best in the tour so far". Hell yeah, it was...
The Palace party on that day was top notch, Tiesto's Hungarian fans surely know how to party.