Moonstone Festival Postponed Because Of Cyber Fraud

This is odd. Moonstone Festival, featuring headliners KISS and Def Leppard, was set to happen April 30 and May 1 in Orlando, Florida. Now the fest is suddenly postponed due to cyber fraud. The event will take place September 24, 25 instead. It isn't clear who will be on the revised lineup. Truly odd and sad.

PRESS RELEASE:INAUGURAL MOONSTONE MUSIC FESTIVALPOSTPONEDDUE TO CYBER FRAUD RESCHEDULED DATES OF SEPTEMBER 24 AND...

Posted by Moonstone Music Festival on Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Comments

[Gary]

Maybe Gene $immon$ learned how to hack,and was skimming 75% of all ticket sales off the top...

[Riita]

Gary - you win.

Ha ha. Perfect.

[Metalboy!]

As Metalboy! is currently protecting The City of Orlando against all crimes against Metal (well, at least for the bands I like), I have it on good authority that there is trouble in Moonstone.

A fine young feline friend of mine who works for a PR firm here in town who was handling all the publicity for Moonstone. That is until Moonstone stiffed them on a $10,000 bill.

She told me last Friday, and I quote, "They're probably going to wind up cancelling it because they haven't sold many tickets. They're a*sholes!"

But I'm actually hoping they can pull it off but for the simple reason it would be so easy for me to go knock out KISS and Def Leppard since the venue's only around 10 minutes from my house. Plus just watching the shocked look on the faces of the uninitiated is always fun!

Let's hope Moonstone can get it's act together.

[Dj]

Something about the promoters seems to be the problem here. That is usually the case when shows fall through over here anyways. It's a shame too, that had potential to be a great show. Def Leppard and KISS? Talk about bang for your buck.

[Bob]

this sounds like a smoke screen cover-up for bad management to me.

[Him]

Rock Gone Wild Festival (2009), anyone?

One line in the PR struck me: "Tickets purchased for the original dates will be honored (with upgrades for all purchasers, details of which will be announced in the coming weeks) with refunds available for those unable to be on hand for the rescheduled dates."

When you rob Peter Criss to pay Paul Stanley (or something like that . . .), you are setting up a lot of people for a lot of broken promises. My advice? Get that refund. Then wait and see.

[GNR]

Now if I can just figure out how to write the screenplay for this one. Getting the actors would be easy. Little more screen time for all, wonder how this one ends ? Corporate greed ? Scandal ? Plain old hackers with a financial motive ? Maybe Anonymous is going after Gene Simmons ? It needs a title though... anyone ?

[Metalboy!]

The curious part of this whole debacle is how they got Stanley & $immons to do a press conference in Orlando to announce it.

Surely, somebody knows somebody or $immons has underwritten the thing. Why would these guys go to the trouble to do a press conference, if it wasn't for real.

Bob & DJ are closest to what is probably the issue(s) here and in line with the Intel I got from my friend at their former PR firm (read above).

I'll see what else I can dig up.

[Ace Steele]

"When you rob Peter Criss to pay Paul Stanley (or something like that . . .)"

Him, that was absolutely BRILLIANT! Sonisphere, anybody? That was cancelled too.

One thing I DO know, KISS got 50% of their booking fee up front. & it's non-refundable.

[Metalboy!]

Hahaha, Ace!!! Robbing Peter Criss to pay Paul Stanley! Very clever and probably VERY true when you really think about it... "Beth" and "Hard Luck Woman" anyone?

Whoa, 50%! What kind of do-re-mi we talkin' here?

[Metalboy!]

As Ace also said, too damn funny, HIM!