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The organisers of Secret Garden Party have claimed that it was their decision to pull Clean Bandit from the line-up of last weekend's festival, and was not influenced by fellow performer Regina Spektor.
The London newcomers were removed from the line-up at the last minute on Sunday of this year's Huntingdon festival, with an angry tweet from Eddy Temple Morris, who organised the Temple Of Boom stage at Secret Garden Party placing blame on Spektor.
"I'm heartbroken," he tweeted. "Regina Spektor has thrown her toys out of the pram and threatened to pull unless we cancel the wonderful @cleanbandit."
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In a statement issued today from organiser Fred Fellowes however, it is claimed that weather conditions forced the cancellation of Clean Bandit, and that Spektor had no knowledge of the incident.
"Regina Spektor was not aware of the decision to ask Clean Bandit to step down. We made the decision ourselves," says Fellowes.
"The reason we took this awful choice was based on the duty of honour we undertook once we booked Regina to headline Sunday night. Namely, as an artist who performs on grand piano we owe it to her and her festival audience to ensure that her performance is presented in the manner and quality we all deserve.
"Regrettably, despite all advance planning and consultation, unexpected meteorological conditions on the day meant we wouldn't be able to fulfil our obligation without taking the drastic steps of having to ask Clean Bandit to step down.
"Both Regina Spektor and Clean Bandit have a long history of support from us at the SGP (both dating back to almost the very first years) and we are sincerely sorry that one of them had to be asked to give way to the other. This wasn't a situation we ever thought would arise and a position I'd never want to put one of our artists in."
