Dear NU News,

First off I love your newspaper. Have read it for the past 4 years and enjoyed every issue. That was until last week. After reading your article about the two musicians that left Afterhours to find an ALTERNATE space to play I felt that I should inform you of some information that was not printed in your newspaper.

“We were supposed to be headlining,” Mathieu said. “A friend of ours said to go play in the student center. Everybody got up [and followed us out]. We just had our guitars and started playing.”

This is an excerpt from your article. This is completely incorrect statement. I was the actual event holder for that night at Afterhours. I was putting a concert with various bands. The truth of the matter is that Mr. Mathieu and Mr. Coffin was not headlining this event. I ran into Mr. Mathieu a week before my event and after some small talk he asked me if any upcoming events were available for him to perform at. I told him about the event I was holding in Afterhours and that he and Mr. Coffin could play at the end of my event. Since Afterhours is a very flexible show environment last minute changes such as this are possible. My event was booked but since Afterhours runs very late into the night there is always time for another act. The event went well up until the last band of my show. While they were performing a couple of the WRBB radio crew was putting some stuff away. This is when Mr. Coffin and Mr. Mathieu became irate and upset. Mr. Mathieu came to me and asked if they were still playing. I said of course they were. The students who were putting equipment away had volunteered there own time for FREE at the radio station. They were just taking the radio stations equipment back to the station. Seeing that they had already donated over 4 hours of their much important time. Since the last performers Mr. Mathieu and Mr. Coffin were only playing acoustic they did not need an entire PA Sound system. They could easily use the house sound system. Mr. Mathieu agreed with me and returned to calm him fellow performer down. Next thing that myself and fellow attendees witnessed was the biggest slap in the face to Northeastern student performers I have ever seen while attending this university. Mr. Coffin went around the night club and convinced students to leave the club and go upstairs to this “hanger”. This was such a slap in the face due to the fact Mr. Coffin was doing this at the same exact time that fellow Northeastern students were performing. Mr. Mathieu apologized to me and to the band performing after they were done (he came back down from the hanger to do this) but I never heard a thing from Mr. Coffin. For anyone who does attend an upcoming performance by this band be prepared for, well for exactly what your you quoted in the NU News “You never know what to expect at the show,” Fans, friends, strangers, students or faculty honestly have no idea what this duo will do. Will they play some songs? Or maybe create a nightmare for another Northeastern student performer who had the courage to go up and perform in front of their peers and then to have some pompous, egotistical, arrogant, pre-madonna, act ruin their nights and yours.

Thank you

-Joshua M. Pratt Cup Concert Chair