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[gordong]

Just read this article online, unbelievable news if it's true!



It’s a lazy Sunday and we’re kind of bored, so lets turn things back to Swedish House Mafia and their upcoming announcement. If you don’t remember, the trio is taking over Pete Tong’s show on September 16th and they have been teasing some “big news” on the 23rd. A new jumble of spotlights with numbers and letters appeared at Creamfields last week, and some of our commenters have been working on the code ever since. Might they have cracked it? Click past the break for the theories.


Let’s take a moment to just focus on the facts. First off are the dates. December 16th, 2011 — 16.12.11 — is most certainly the date when something is happening, as we told you weeks ago. That leaves 14.07.12, or July 14, 2012, (140712.com) which conveniently happens to be another domain name registered to EMI, the record label that SHM is on and the same one that owns 161211.com. It turns out that 121611.com is for a different music promo event, so we guess it just lucks out in terms of timing. So, with the dates out of the way, let’s move on to the letters.



As we’ve been hinting for a while, rumors of an SHM event in New York have been blowing up, and reader Kenneth happens to have found three letters in the code that are certainly worthy of SHM — MSG. The Garden is one of the most famous venues in the world, and SHM would no doubt be the largest DJ group to ever sell out the 20,000 seat venue. We also heard that there were people outside Sebastian Ingrosso’s show at Capitale this past week blabbing about the event to everyone passing by. Of course, it doesn’t top Tiesto’s 26,000 Home Depot Stadium event happening next week, but that’s where we get to the next part of the code — and possibly the reasoning of its announcement on BBC Radio 1.



Kenneth has also found another three letters in the code that correspond to one of the most famous venues in Europe, the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, UK. SHM has the UK and BBC Radio 1 in particular to thank for part of its success, and what better way is there to celebrate being on top of the world than with a 65,000-person venue that’s seen the likes of AC/DC, Black Sabbath, and Bruce Springsteen? Of course, we are not as confident in this prediction quite yet, but we’re working on getting more confirmations. We repeat, this is not confirmed whatsoever.

That would theoretically make the code, Swedish House Mafia One Night Stands: Madison Square Garden 16.12.11, Milton Keynes Bowl 14.07.12. Of course, Eric Prydz could also have suddenly overcome his intense fear of flying and is making a return to SHM, or Alesso lied to us and he is joining as a member himself, and all this hard code-cracking work could’ve been done for nothing. Thankfully this all ends in just under two weeks, and knowing SHM, there will probably be something that still manages to take us all by surprise. #SHMWTF?

[chickenfire]

Surely there is no way they are big enough to do this. The prodigy managed but they are in a completely different league.

[gordong]

You would be suprised at the amount of fans they have, but selling out Milton Keynes is maybe pushing it. The only thing I would say strange is the massive jump in venue size, like why wouldnt they play somewhere like Victoria Park in London first which they could easily sell out IMO. It is apparent they are doing some sort of massive UK show next summer though, Steve Angello has already announced they will not be at Creamfields 2012 and also, they said on Facebook that anyone who was at their first Brixton gig to get out their booking reciepts in relation to this announcement. I guess we will have to wait and see

[chickenfire]

I could see it happening if they have a ridiculously good under card. The prodigy had pendulum supporting them and that didn't even sell out the bowl too quickly.
Who could they get to support them at Milton Keynes and not make it look like creamfields at the bowl?

Edited by chickenfire, 15 September 2011 - 09:38 PM.

[Dis©oDan]

Will be full of chavs anyway sad to say but since SHM went into the mainstreem music charts every chav and his scabbie dog is a fan

[Delboy71]

Dis©oDan, on 16 September 2011 - 06:02 PM, said:

Will be full of chavs anyway sad to say but since SHM went into the mainstreem music charts every chav and his scabbie dog is a fan

Indeed. The biggest loss to Creamfields if they don't play is that you can be sure where all the chavs are for a couple of hours whilst they're playing!!

[gazza_20]

chickenfire, on 15 September 2011 - 09:37 PM, said:

I could see it happening if they have a ridiculously good under card. The prodigy had pendulum supporting them and that didn't even sell out the bowl too quickly.
Who could they get to support them at Milton Keynes and not make it look like creamfields at the bowl?

Myself too and that date in July os good, got stuff on next year but not then lol.

who would play under though? if they could get example in?, that'd shift tickets

[chickenfire]

Skrillex, Flux pavilion seem realistic
People like Tinie Tempah, Eric Prydz and Tiesto seem a bit big to support but it could work.

[gordong]

If they were doing it, they will have to get big support. I don't think they would get any dubstep acts to be honest, not with them all having ther own record labels with acts they regularly play with. I could see Tinie Tempah, Eric Prydz, Alesso, Thomas Gold, Knife Party and perhaps Avicii.

[5co77ie]

Creamfields website says

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Did you manage to crack the code? Well the wait is almost over, the day is finally here for one of the most highly anticipated announcements of the year! Tune into Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1 tonight when all will be revealed

[5co77ie]

website now here:

http://230911.com/

[5co77ie]

now official - news here:

http://www.efestival...1/110923c.shtml

Edited by 5co77ie, 23 September 2011 - 09:18 PM.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

They did look awesome at titp this year which tempts me, but i'll wait to see the undercard. If it goes a bit tinie tempa-y rather than other dj's I think i'll give it a miss.

[Delboy71]

Unfotunately this will be a real chav fest which is a shame as it's an awesome venue and could be a great event....

[DeejayDawn]

With tickets at £50 a go, I reckon we should actually see a decent majority of this crowd there for the right reasons (exclusion of the chav minority, as this is half the price of a CF ticket for some).

This event at MSG has gone crazy with huge ticket allocation problems, cancellations, etc – something a gig at the MK bowl doesn’t have to worry about

[5co77ie]

1st support acts announced:

http://www.efestival...1/111117h.shtml

[binkibonko]

Alesso and Pete Tong also added now

Looking good but I'm still expecting another biggish act to be thrown in, or am I hoping for too much?