Monday, January 28, 2013
Cream Volumes Singer Allegedly Jumped by Rocketown Staff, Allegedly Calls Promoter 'Christian Faggot'
Posted by Adam Gold on Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:05 PM
In a statement to PropertyOfZack, Mark Mosley — the show’s promoter, who is not a Rocketown employee, and who is neither gay nor Christian — says that when he tried to mediate the confrontation, “an extremely agitated” post-ejection Barr verbally (and orally) assaulted him, spitting and hurling harangues like “Christian,” “faggot” and “Christian faggot” his way. Well isn’t that ironic.
Barr, class act, pillar of tolerance and eloquent wordsmith that he is, rather graciously continued his vociferous diatribe on Twitter, because obviously, in 2013, the tweet is mightier than the sword. Check out highlights from that self-righteous, G-rated viral surfeit of heated 140-character-or-less rage, along with Mosley’s inarguably more discernible, articulate account in full, below. And for good measure, let’s also throw in a tweet via Volumes bassist Raad Soudani, who alleges his band mate received death threats.
... Annnnnd Mark Mosley's account:
[Saturday night], for the first time in my career I experienced, well, I don’t even know how to describe it. I was the promoter for the Volumes/Of Mice and Men show [Saturday night] and got to experience the “incident” with Mr. Barr first hand. As Mr. Barr was being removed from the venue I was standing next to the exit having a conversation with a friend. As an extremely agitated Mr. Barr tried to re-enter the venue, I calmly stepped in front of him and as calm as could be (people get excited at shows often) [asked him] to please stay outside and cool off for a minute. Mr. Barr then proceeded to verbally attack me calling me “faggot” repeatedly as well as accusing me of being a Christian (I am neither gay nor a Christian). He then proceeded to spit on me 2x before being escorted away by security. All the while still calling me a “faggot," “Christian faggot”, and so on.I think it’s important that you know more of the story seeing as how its being presented that he was the victim. I do not believe for one second that he was attacked or removed for any reason relating to gay rights.
For me personally, I take gay rights very seriously and fully support equality for all. Anyone who knows me or has worked with me over the years will vouch for my professionalism.
As for the rest of the members of Volumes, they were very courteous and professional and I look forward to working with them in the future.
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