I certainly don't want to get into the middle of anything, although being Irish I love a good tossle. However just to give everyone a chance to hear both sides of the story I sent an e-mail to Patrick Murphy telling him about your concerns, and in less than 24 hours I got the following response.

"Trust me it was a horrible 45 minutes for us as well....the tech guys simply could not find the problem...something came loose INSIDE the board....they had to dismantle the thing from behind and fix it from there....that has never happened in the 6 years we've been playing.One of the biggest problem with the festivals is the change over time between bands. 15 minutes isn't enough...the festival was already behind schedule before we stepped up...Searson stopped at 5:45pm....that was when we were supposed to go on.

In regards to the organizers and the disrepct to the other bands we apologized to every single member of each band and the staff and crew...how does that guy know that we were disrepectful to people who are working backstage? Was he backstage?

Again trust me we were horribly and panfully aware of the delay. Once we started playing we were still having problems with the sound and it took a while to even relax. And we do have a LOT of respect for fans!

Thanks again.

Patrick Murphy"

this is nothing more than giving a chance for every side to be heard, I am not discounting how bad it was for you two, but I have worked events and things happen the events provider doesn't ever tell the audience. I don't know if this changes your opinion of the band but I just thought it would be fair to you both to hear an explanation of what happened.