I see you've decided to not comment on the main point of my post - I wonder why that is.

Having been to a handful of Pride events in the last few years, I tend to think the sound systems are never that great but it doesn't stop others from performing. I think she should have carried on regardless and just done her set. She could have laughed off any sound issues, or maybe gone acoustic like others have said. It's not a full on big scale concert at the 02, it's a day to celebrate who you are and it's all for fun (whilst thinking about how it all began) and a good cause... I'm in no way a big fan of hers but I won't slag her off... I just think that it was a poor decision to not do the show.

Because he knows he's fighting a losing battle.

She pulled out of one performance. She did another peformance later that same day. Does she really deserve all the hate she is getting for it?

Suuureee....at the end of the day, the equipment just wasn't up to scratch. Claiming she should just sit on stage and perform acoustically is silly...the area was massive and without the speakers she may as well not have been there as nobody in the back would be able to hear her anyway, and why should she go on stage looking basic because the organisers weren't with it enough to check with her in advance...?

It's not her fault they couldn't get their acts together and come up with a decent enough sound system for her and the performance, it's already been said that there were loads of complaints from people at the event that the system was rubbish so I don't even blame her for quitting this rubbish...

These people saying she's a 'diva' need to get their lives together, why should she settle for a sub-par performance? That's not what her fans turned up for, she came to Brighton expecting at least a decent sound system and they didn't deliver it. She's done similar things at other clubs where she's requested different systems and they have managed to get them for her, so why not these organisers....?

Seems like they didn't like it when she exposed their sub-par standards and spread these stupid rumours about her.

Apparently pulling out of one performance means she's 'a diva' who 'hates her fans' and is 'too good' for anything. She's just trying to stay professional, it's a shame some people don't understand that.

I think that's what most of us are saying. No, she doesn't, but she's asking for trouble when she does things like this. There is no "tomorrows chip paper" effect any more due to the internet, and the industry is littered with people who simply can't get work any more because they've got themselves a bad name. It's so easy to do, but almost impossible to recover from. A friend of mine has the most incredible voice, but due to one televised incident 5 years ago, which wasn't her fault anyway, she still cant get work. If Alexandra's not very careful, things could well go the same way. 1000 diehard fans is no good any more.

... Biting the hand that feeds will lead to starving or surviving on crumbs... I like forward to seeing her doing the summer camp circuit with Eoghan Quigg soon. Then she can see how she does with a karaoke machine and 4 normal stereo speakers rather than Marshall stacks.

It would have been a lot more professional to have got on with the gig. Plus people aren't saying she's a diva just because of this story, it's a culmination of a load of things from ever since she was on the X Factor.

When artists play gigs such as this it isn't about an appearance fee - which means she could quite easily have explained the situation to her fans and then played an acoustic set or even just a low-key version of the set she was going to do anyway.

The producers of the event are to blame for not getting everything sorted as they were supposed to but Alexandra & her management are to blame for not getting on with it and putting a show on anyway - especially when it's supposed to be about the music, right?

Sorry, I don't get how she's asking for trouble by pulling out of one performance. Plenty of singers pull out of performances, and plenty will go on to do so. This really isn't that big a deal. Of course people who bought tickets to see her will be annoyed, but if they're big enough fans of her, it shouldn't turn them off her. If they were just casual fans, then they probably won't be that bothered any way.

Because I'm telling you, with my 15 years of PR experience working with the most successful British music manager of all time, and having been involved in creating over 400m unit sales, that that is what she should've done. I'm sorry to get all douchey and high and mighty about this, but if you would only take your blinkers off for a second, it's bloody obvious. Jeez.

i just don't get it, i really don't. like the situation with her pulling out of the jls tour, its bemusing. promotion is promotion when all is said and done. so i really don't understand why she is pulling out of promotional slots. she needs the exposure and frankly some good press. unfortunately, this further feeds the allegations of diva tenancies and she really doesn't need that at the moment.

This 'management' the name of which she hasn't even announced to her fans? OK.com

It's not the one performance obviously, it's the bad name she's getting for herself. I have nothing against her, she's cute, she has a great voice and i like some of her songs, it's about the bigger picture as i've tried to explain over and over and over again. But i've tried, and luckily I don't have to manage her , so it's not my problem lol!

Her single underperforms and her album tanks. She pulls out of the JLS tour. She pulls out of Brighton gay pride.

None of this is her fault of course. She is blameless naturally. Hmmmm.

Miss Burke cancels another performance. Letting her fans down.

Funny how she managed to perform at another Pride event in Cardiff without a hitch.....*sigh* she's such a diva. :sleep:

I doubt anyone would've wanted to see her anyway

She may or may not be a diva but there is something gone down within the industry. There has to a be a reason that no one plays her records on the major stations.

Cancelling gigs and stuff just gives the ordinary music fan more ammunition to believe she is not a nice person. Although to be fair that hasn't stopped Christina from getting to the top

We never said people couldn;'t be angry?

I would be mad like hell too if i had to drive through half the country just to hear Alex's gig is cancelled

BUT people are blaming it on her being a diva, as she appearently wasn't pleased with the crowd.. I mean dseriously? She plays clubs where about 200 people come..

Why would she turn down a hell lot more public? It just makes 0 sence. And Alex and her PR team have said it themself. The technics weren't good enough

I think someone at that Pride just wants to blame her for it ...

You're getting it at long last!

Can I just ask why her fans are so certain it was a sound system problem? Is there a source for this? Everything I've read suggests it was a staging or crowd issue, and Alexandra only talks vaguely about technical/production issues.

I've heard this rumour on a couple of sites and it sounds fairly plausible:

"Pride insiders said that she was not happy to appear on the stage in the Girls On Top Tent as it was too small. Ms Burke management said she would prefer to appear on the same stage that Fat Boy Slim was playing in the Wild Fruit Tent. Paul Kemp the promoter of Wild Fruit agreed to change his schedules but was then told the stage was too high for Ms Burke."

Source: http://www.gscene.com/local/Alexandra_who.shtml

That's the account I read on the DS music page article. AFAICS nowhere has Alexandra stated it was a sound system issue? And that pic in the article seems to have been carefully chosen - she looks scary as hell

What a silly little website....I've seen that account of things floating around in comments and things do not add up and sound like hearsay. And why did they randomly quote her Wikipedia page?