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Disclosure have posted an official statement on Facebook in response to the miming controversy at this weekend's Capital FM Summer ball.
A picture of the DJ duo showed their decks unplugged at the Summer ball, which lead to the 'I love Bass Music' Facebook group administrator accusing the brothers of pulling a 'David Guetta', a reference to the French DJ who has been known to mime his DJ sets.
Guy Lawrence replied to the accusation by stating: "We pleaded with them [Capital FM] for weeks to let us play fully live ... but they just weren't having it. It was incredibly frustrating and horrible for us to hear our music at Wembley and not actually be able to play it ourselves."
He then went on to say that the brothers left the plug unplugged and exposed on purpose and didn't wear headphones in order to not fool anyone into thinking they were properly mixing.
He finished by saying that though they wanted to thank Capital FM for their support, it was not an experience they would do again.
Their debut album, Settle, topped the Official Charts this weekend.
Disclosure playing live at Radio One's Big Weekend, 2013
Here is the official statement in full:
"Hello I Love Bass Music and everyone who is talking about this photo... so. here is how and why this happened. Capital FM made us do this show with a backing track playing but allowed the vocalists to sing. They said that they had to trigger the tracks themselves to sync visuals. We pleaded with them for weeks and weeks to let us play fully live or at least let us mix but they just weren't having it. You will also notice this was the same for a lot of the dance acts playing that day (i.e. the duke dumont pic you posted) It was incredibly frustrating and horrible for us to hear our music at Wembley and not actually be able to play it ourselves, as anyone with any knowledge about disclosure knows that we play fully live..."
"Notice also that we didnt try and make it look like we were mixing. We left the fucking plug on the floor on purpose, didnt even plug phono leads into the master out, turned all the EQs fully down and the master out AND DIDNT EVEN TAKE HEADPHONES for god sake!! LOL if at any point we touched the mixer it was...well, you try standing infront of 80,000 people and not touching the mixer... go on... its really hard hahaha! I would also like to point out that people like David Guetta ect who have also been accused of pretending to mix, actually try and cover it up and pretend to blend tracks into one another and hide it... but with us, we played three songs with vocalists b2b with gaps in between, so even if we had been mixing, there would have been no beat matching involved anyway + we didnt try and hide it at all!!"
"But yeah it was a very strange experience and one we will not be going through again. Capital have been amazing to us and they play our songs roughly 400 times a week across their various networks and we wanted to thank them for all the support. Guy x"
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