Author Topic: Can a French speaker translate interviews about the Koffi incident in Abidjan?  (Read 3702 times)

Jdog on: December 29, 2015, 02:44

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Matebu #1 on: December 29, 2015, 04:09

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I watched the video of the young promoter. His video is a response to the negative messages he gotten on Facebook. It's evident that he lacks experience of organizing venues with big artists, so he mostly emphasizes on how all these people came out to see Koffi and, as a result of misunderstandings and the prior incompetence of Ivorian artists and promoters, these sort of issues occur.

In summation:
Fans - fathers, mothers, kids from all over came out and waited from 17h to 3h for Koffi. The dancers and Cindy did the opening, which, he states, did not impress the crowd because they waited so long to see Koffi. He subtly disses the dancers for their appearance/behaviors and Cindy.

He says never has a big artist left the podium in middle of packed concert the way Koffi did, not even Michael Jackson. The issues stem from higher up with the contract he signed he with Commdant Wattao and his associates, so why should the audience suffer the consequences?

He then states, where does it exist in modern times that a concert can be held without someone filming? (I don't think he acknowledged the difference between amateur phone filming and professional filming, which cause the problem.)

He lastly offered his apologies for the disappointment of the audience and for some petty theft that occurred at the venue. 

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I lived in Cote D'ivoire for some time, these sort of contract issues are all too common; it's being publicized cause it's Koffi not some Coupe Décale DJ. 
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Jdog #2 on: December 29, 2015, 07:26

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Thank you Matebu, but can't someone who films a concert with their phone still make money off a video of an artist at a concert through ad sense and I never knew about the image rights thing. It makes me think now if some artists in DRC don't know about it because they show concerts on TV all the time.
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Matebu #3 on: December 29, 2015, 16:19

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Unless you're a social media promoter (Zua Connection etc)., amateur videos have little value unless some crazy event occurs. 

DVD sales have plummeted over the past five years, but just imagine the income Koffi made in the late 90s- early 2000s from his concerts VHS/DVDs alone, specifically the big ones. Professional filming is still very lucrative, so you can sort of understand were the anger and decision to cut the concert short came from. Younger artists don't realize this. 

 If you've may have noticed over the past few years, most of Koffi's Africa-only concerts are not to be found in full on YouTube. Part of it is because most of the venues are not nice like the Europe halls of yesteryear and the other part is that film rights are a big expense on top of the contract. Supposedly Koffi wants at least $100k now for a concert (still not sure if this is true).
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Jdog #4 on: December 29, 2015, 22:23

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Yeah I forgot about DVDS/VHS as revenues. I see why Koffi would be mad about that.
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