In the past 24 hours, two international DJs who were scheduled to headline at the upcoming Monsoon Madness Music Festival in Yangon have removed the festival from their tour schedules on social media.
Dutch-Turkish DJ Ummet Ozcan and Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens, also known as HI-LO, were scheduled to headline at Monsoon Madness on September 23 at Thuwanna Stadium. However, the festival, which was listed on their Facebook tour schedules as recently as yesterday, no longer appears there.
Unconfirmed reports say that all three of the festival’s foreign headliners plan to pull out of the festival in response to the Rakhine State crisis. However, the third headlining act – Axwell Λ Ingrosso – still has Monsoon Madness listed on their tour schedule, and they are still selling tickets through a Facebook event they created.
Curiously, both Heldens and Ozcan still have the festival listed on the tour schedules on their personal websites, though it has been redacted from the homepage of Ozcan’s website. Heldens is still listed as a performer at Monsoon Madness on the website Bandsintown.
Ozcan previously did a set at the Electric Dream Festival in Mandalay in December 2016. He is also a contender in the “Top 100 DJs” competition, which raises funds for UNICEF.
The American hip hop group Far East Movement, which is listed on the Monsoon Madness lineup as a “special guest,” does not have any tour dates listed online.
The organizers of Monsoon Madness failed to reply to several inquiries about the lineup.
