Κάποιος ανέβασε στο Youtube video από την ανακοίνωση για την αναβολή/ακύρωση της συναυλίας:

Όπως είναι φυσικό όλο το internet έχει γεμίσει με σχόλια σχετικά. Ορίστε μερικά από την σελίδα τους στο Facebook:

-Hey Dave…your ”illness” cost me 400 euros, 1 hour walking, 2 hours standing and 3 hours driving..You want my bank account? You and those fucking assholes @ terra vibe & didi music who were selling tickets until 21.30 while your representative clearly said on stage that u weren’t feeling well since early in the morning…so y the fuck didn’t u cancel the show before it started so we could take our money back? Y DIDN’T ANYBODY ELSE FROM THE GROUP GET UP ON STAGE TO ANNOUNCE U WEREN’T PERFORMING AND ONLY UR ”REP” CAME??? DID U EVEN BOTHER TO COME TO TERRA VIBE OR GREECE AT ALL??? 50.000 ppl here in Greece were waiting to see you, to listen to you..but who cares right?

– We certainly enjoyed the silence today(12/5)

– XESTHKE O DAVE STO TERRAVIBE!!

– Depeche mode were so WROMG tonight! We are so pissed having to realise that a band that until now we love and support turned out to be so ungrateful and hypocrite. Don’t know whose fault is this (the host company is as well responsible) but knowing from the morning that something is going wrong and having people travel from all accross Greece, taking day off work, standing, waiting, buying beers, listen to the build up music only to find out from one representative that the show is cancelled 4 hours after the doors open. That was so theatrical! And on top of that, we have to watch the media to find out if they will do us the favour to drag us back there again tomorrow like we have nothing else to do! Of course they are humans but so are the 30,000 thousand of the fans there! Don’t underestimate our inteligence and don’t bother coming to Greece again!

– The Athens Show was cancelled due to some illness that Dave has … More info tomorrow! The poor thing is that we the traffic was lousy after! Hours of waiting! Dave get well soon and come again in about a months’ time, not tomorrow

– Sounds Of The Universe is coming…? THAT’S FUNNY U DON’T EVEN SHOWED UP!!!! 12-5-09

– I just want to say thank you so much for a wonderful night in Athens…..
You are really inadequate towards your audience…
Especially the attitude of Didi Music who didn’t inform so many fans not to drive all this way down to the concert area …
SAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!

– Shame on you to cancel the concert in Athens the very last minute!!! More than 20.000 came to see you not only from Athens but from all over the Greece, and even though tickets were sold until 21:30 the announcement of cancellation was made on 21:40
Very disappointing!!!

– You disappointed as yesterday, we waited for you from 5.30 pm and you cancel the concert at 9.15 pm, shame on you…………..

– hello from greece…what happened today was a fucking disgrace…at least ou could have to;d as that the concert is cancelled earlier..not at 21:30…i think that you could have shown a little respect to those wo paid to see you!

– EINAI H APOLYTH PRAGMATIKOTITA! TI ATAKA! AKOUSTE THN NA LEEI KATHARA OTI TO IKSERAN APOTO PRWI ALLA DEN EKANAN TIPOTA! (GREEK TRANSLATOR SAYS CLEARLY THEY KNEW FROM EARLY IN THE MORNING THAT DAVE WAS SICK BUT DID NOTHING)

– DEPECHE MODE LIVE IN ATHENS 12-5-09: I WAS THERE! THEY WEREN’T!

– paidia paizei na fagame megalo doulema…mas poulhsane bures kai o,ti allh malakia uphrxe, mas foresane kuriolektika kapelo th vodafone (efaga kapelo sto doksa patri, karoumpalo kanoniko)-h opoia parepiptontws den eixe shma :P- ki otan eidan oti den paei allo eipan na mas to serviroun to neo pou mallon to hkseran apo to prwi. erwthsh. epsaksan kanenos thn tsada?? oute ta prosxhmata…

Η Didi Music έκδοσε την παρακάτω ανακοίνωση στο site της:

Αιφνίδια αναβολή της εμφάνισης των Depeche Mode λόγω ξαφνικής αδιαθεσίας του τραγουδιστή του συγκροτήματος, Dave Gahan.

Αναμένουμε νεότερα για την κατάσταση του τραγουδιστή, ελπίζοντας πως η κατάσταση του θα επιτρέψει την εμφάνιση του συγκροτήματος στις 13/05/09.

Η συναυλία αναβλήθηκε σήμερα, 12/05/2009, στις 21.00 ενώ το συγκρότημα και ο ίδιος ο καλλιτέχνης βρισκόταν ήδη στον χώρο.
Το ιατρικό προσωπικό του Terra Vibe Park αφού εξέτασε τον Dave Gahan συνέστησε άμεση μεταφορά του σε νοσοκομείο για περαιτέρω εξετάσεις.

Ακολουθεί η επίσημη ανακοίνωση του εκπροσώπου του συγκροτήματος:

“Sorry to say the show is cancelled.  Dave Gahan is ill. We’ve had a doctor in to see him backstage and unfortunately the doctor’s advice is that Dave cannot perform. In fact he is now on his way to hospital for a check up. Dave really wanted to be well enough to perform and apologizes for letting you fans down.  We are hopeful Dave will recover by to morrow and that we can re-schedule the show for tomorrow but we will only know this tomorrow so listen for public announcement on radio and internet tomorrow. “

Η παραγωγή θα μείνει στημένη και η ελπίδα όλων είναι ο αγαπημένος μας καλλιτέχνης να ανακτήσει τις δυνάμεις του και να εμφανιστεί αύριο 13/05/09 στο Terra Vibe Park.

H DiDi Music θα ήθελε να ευχαριστήσει τους δεκάδες χιλιάδες θεατές των DM, για την άψογα πολιτισμένη συμπεριφορά τους σε αυτές τις δύσκολες συνθήκες.

Η Didi Music ζητά από τους θεατές της συναυλίας να κρατήσουν τα αποκόμματα των εισιτηρίων τους, τα οποία θα εξασφαλίσουν και την είσοδό τους στον χώρο, εφόσον η συναυλία διεξαχθεί στις 13/05/2009.

Όλοι ευχόμαστε καλή ανάρρωση στον Dave και ανυπομονούμε να τον δούμε στο Terra Vibe Park αύριο.
Μείνετε συντονισμένοι στο site της εταιρίας και στα ΜΜΕ.

Και η ανακοίνωση του συγκροτήματος:

“Sorry to say the show is cancelled.
Dave Gahan is ill. We’ve had a doctor in to see him backstage and unfortunately the doctor’s advice is that Dave cannot perform. In fact he is now on his way to hospital for a check up. Dave really wanted to be well enough to perform and apologizes for letting you fans down.

We are hopeful Dave will recover by tomorrow and that we can re-schedule the show for tomorrow but we will only know this tomorrow so listen for public announcement on radio and internet tomorrow. “

Φυσικά υπάρχει και κάλυψη από τον ξένο τύπο: MSNBC, Reuters.