Yves Tumor did not expect that booking a DJ set before a Swedish House Mafia concert would lead to him being booed offstage.
But that’s just what happened when he played a concert at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens last week.
At one point, he reacted to the booing by telling the New York audience that he was still getting paid.
Tumor, an electronic and experimental artist born Sean Lee Bowie, let everyone know what he thought about the Swedish House Mafia crowd’s response to his music.
“I just got booed off stage for playing the best set of the night by a bunch of the corniest people I’ve ever seen in my f—ing life,” he said on his Instagram stories after the Sept. 11 show, per EDM.com.
“This city is truly hell on earth,” Tumor said, ripping up a poster of New York in his video. “I thought LA was bad. I thought Berlin was bad. I thought Paris was bad.”
Tumor, who grew up in Tennessee and is based in Turin, Italy, later shared screenshots on Instagram of messages from Swedish House Mafia tour designer Alexander Wessely.
Wessely had invited Tumor to open the show with a DJ set before the EDM headliner.
“I’m so sorry that was f—ed up,” Wessely told Tumor after the show. “You killed it….. me and the guys loved it.”
Tumor, 35, also shared a screenshot of a message from a fan and his response.
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“I’m a fan. I like noise. I liked the set,” they said. “Though it was f—ing cool. But there’s (a) time and place. Maybe the audience didn’t get u. Maybe u didn’t get the audience. Cut ur losses and don’t let this peg u down. Stay f—ing swag.”
“I appreciated this take a lot,” Tumor replied. “Honest to God I forgot I was at a Swedish House Mafia show (not gonna lie), I just play what I always play. Which people seem to always like when I am booked. I was (unaware) I was in the presence of lames. But who cares SHM (Swedish House Mafia) booked me and paid me. Not you!
“Also peg me down? I pegged 25K down clearly,” he said, referring to the seating capacity of Arthur Ashe Stadium.
He also shared a quote from another DJ, Canada’s Deadmau5, who seemed to be commenting on footage from Tumor’s set:
“Does nobody here realize you can’t buy this kind of publicity?”
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