Calvin Harris has pulled three UK dates after losing an album’s-worth of material in the baggage handling problems showing-up the new Terminal 5 Building at Heathrow Airport.
The Scot’s laptop went missing on his return from America and it contained about seven months-worth of new material.
“He has lost the only copy of the new album," said a spokeswoman for Harris’s label Columbia Records. "It is a big cause for concern - months of work have gone into that."
The shows affected are those listed below:
April
10 London KOKO
12 Birmingham Custard Factory
13 Glasgow Barrowlands
A previous statement has said that live performances wouldn’t be impacted upon by Harris’s loss as he doesn’t use the laptop live, but a Harris who was talking about “setting airport officials on fire” according to the free London dailies, is clearly in no mood to entertain guests at the moment.
He did, though, apologise to fans on his website, saying: “We'll be back as a band for some festivals and then I'll be spending the rest of the year in my new purple studio, making the album.”
Re-making the album, the whole thing, unless a £750 reward entices it from a thief or the baggage handlers eventually find the missing laptop.
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I hope he doesn't find it and gives up music entirely.
But surely £750 is a bit meager.
Er, didn't think of backing it up?
Calvin Harris thought he could fill the barrowlands?
He hasn't been popular with anyone for months now!
lucky for him I guess, saves his embarassment.
i reckon he could fill it a few times
He can't spend more than 10 minutes on a track anyways.
Shouldnt take him long to re-do it.
^this
absolutely 100% seriously, i dont believe it takes this guy more than 20 minutes to put together one of his tracks
he should have backed it up.
the loser
But backing up isn't cool.
Stuff and shit is cool.
epic win.
.
^^ this ^^
very good.
what
kind of a nonce puts their laptop in the hold?
^^^
exactly
If he could set the most famous baggage handler of them all
on fire, I'd be pleased.
Baggy McBagbag?
...
aka John Smeaton
His record company
can't have valued the album to only give such a small reward.
Surely the laptop's worth that alone!?
If....
...that's his only copy then whoever has it should release it as their own album and sue him for breaking copyright when he re-records it.
Who on God's Earth
only has one copy of their newly recorded album! I seriously doubt there was an album in the first place and all this is a front to mask his shortcomings.
Probably
Bring laptop in your hands
Calvin Harris looks old enough to have realised that he should bring valuable items, such as a laptop, in his hands. It's unbelievable to blame the airport or airline as long as he left it in their "care".
if thats true!!!
He is a right tit and at least its postponed having to listen to more CH for at least another week.
Although I can't actually believe that was his only copy, if thats the truth he really doesn't appreciate his own music...
everytime I hear one of these..
I just think 'dick'. Yeah thousands of hours of your work and studio time to put it on ONE LAPTOP, on relatively volatile magnetic media? Your an idiot mate.
Calvin Harris newest album is lost?
What a fucking tragedy. Cry.