festival kinetik

I found this on SPtravel.info so whats the deal?

"Skinny Puppy: Regarding Kinetik 2009...

2008/10/23 22:03
The Kinetik Festival website currently mentions a 14 May 2009 appearance by Skinny Puppy. I have received a note from the band's management that this is not a confirmed performance date."[/b]

Also no mention of show on the official SP website or myspace

I see that the post on SPtravel.info is from back on Oct 23 so that could be the reason why it says they are not confirmed. Of course that is not an official Skinny Puppy site but i do find it strange that there in no mention of Kinetik on any of the official SP sites. Every other band has the show listed in the tour section of their respective websites. Please anyone,correct me if i am wrong. I am going to go anyway but SP is a huge plus for the festival.

Oui we love Skinny Puppy too so it would be very nice if this actually happens. I have already purchased the whole shebang the whole shindig pass for all nights. I just saw Ohgr in nyc last week I should have tried to meet him (he was friendly) and ask him about Montreal.
I have noticed for what it's worth that SP related myspace and website are rarely updated or anything. Hope that's just what it is but this concern I understand and share.

This is from the forums on Litany.com

Re: SKINNY PUPPY NOT CONFIRMED FOR KINETIK 2009??
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 05:42:03 pm »
I asked Ogre about this directly a few nights ago, and he indicated that making travel arrangements for Kinetik to see Puppy would be premature at this point. It MAY happen, but to his knowledge it is not confirmed.

we have a signed contract from The Agency Group (booker of Skinny Puppy) since september 10 for skinny Puppy. Yes indeed ohgr is not aware of the booking made by is US Booker untill he need to know.

All the bands on the kinetik line up where bands with signed contracts.

As for Skinny Puppy, it been 3 weeks we are in talk with the Booking agency that indeed have change the deal with Skinny Puppy show after signing the contract, and indeed they went on booking SP show without talking to the band. We already paid advance fee to have them confirm, so at this point the problem is not on the festival side but on the booking agency side.

we should have final update on this question this week end since we gave this date as final deadline for them to come out with a solution to there problem.

don't worry we are working hard to fix this problem and we will do an official statement as soon we have an update from them.

So anything new on this?????

so much for the "deadline" That was two weeks ago. Hopefully we will hear something soon

I would really like to get a straight answer on this situation.

Hey Sun Bleu. I live right outside NYC where I see you are from. I am going to the festival with my girlfriend. If we all end up going maybe we can meet up and get some drinks...hopefully after seeing Skinny Puppy Time will tell.

We are now able to announce the updates that has been running around on the Internet for a while. After more than 2 months of talking directly with Skinny Puppy, even if we did have a signed contract from there booking agency since September 2008, due to changes on Skinny Puppy side schedule, both parties agreed to cancel Skinny Puppy participation to the festival. It is a sad news for all the Kinetik team, and be sure we did everything we could to make this show happen. It is with the same resigment that Skinny Puppy decided to cancel there participation to the festival. We will soon post an official letter from Nivek Ogre explaining this change and that the cancellation is not due to the festival team or Skinny Puppy fault.

We hope that the festival line up with more than 35 acts is still enough to please everyones tastes, the festival was never intended to be a "one" band festival, but more a whole experience. For anyone that has bought tickets/passes to the festival and wish to receive an refund on there purchase, please send an email to sales@festival-kinetik.net along side the full transaction confirmation ID received from the paypal transaction confirmation email.

On the good news side, we are pleased to announce the addition of Project Pitchfork to the thursday night line up for a first show in Canada/USA in over 10 years. Important note, this addition is not made to replace Skinny Puppy, since we think no one can pretend to replace them. But we do think that Project Pitchfork will bring a nice addition to the festival line up.

Also, now that the final line up is available and that all the changes has been made, all diamond passes / T-shirt purchases will start this week end and should be delivered to you in the next 10 to 20 open days (depending on where you are located). We will send a confirmation email to everyone before sending the purchases to you to confirm your address and update everyone on the line up changes.

Tickets will also be available in Montreal this week end and in the others cities on the fallowing week (check the tickets page for updates)