From ATB's MySpace blog:

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Facts about the Planetlove festival and Paul Van Dyk...
You won..t believe what you will read now.

I..m just back in my hotelroom (05.09.2009, 10:30 PM), but actually I should be on stage at the Planet Love Festival in Belfast now.
The reality is, that the organizers just told me and my manager one our ago at the festival, that Paul van Dyk told them, that when I play (my contracted playtime was 10-12 PM) my set right before his set 12-2 AM, he will not play! So the organizers decided to throw me out of the lineup!

I just want to let you know, how people in this scene and business works and of course this will have consequences to all concerned parties!

I..m so sorry for all the fans out there, who wasn't able to see me.

Andre

More information about this night coming soon!

Wow. Looks like maybe people were right about Van Dyk's attitude.

Although I like some of his songs, he really deserved to be named Paul van Dick

What are the reasons behind this? Seems strange much like the Deadmau5 incident.

Paul Van Huge Pile of Shit!  ... I am really disappointed with this news...

First Deadmau5 Vs. Schossow and now this!!!

Why is everyone having beef with each other?

This is trance, not rap!

Here's the other side of the story:

A post by PLM founder and promoter Eddie Wray on the Planet Love forum:

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ATB refuses to play Planetlove

It is with regret that I have to pen one of the worst unprofessional incidents we have encountered in almost 25 years of booking artists.

At 7pm on Saturday evening we respectfully asked ATB to help us with the smooth running of the show by playing his set at the festival from approximately 9pm to 11pm instead of his requested time of 10pm to 12midnight and he point blankly refused.

Instead he arrived at the site and chose to verbally abuse and threaten Judith, so much so that he had to be asked to calm down by his manager and security called as Judith feared that things would escalate further.

The facts are very simple. ATB chose not to play at all to the same crowd, in the same arena for the same two hour set rather than play one hour earlier!

I ask any rational person to try and relate to this.

He was paid in full, in advance, as where his flights and transport. He was treated with courtesy and respect but rather than play one hour earlier than he wanted to he hurled abuse, issued threats, wouldn’t play the new time and proceeded to blame PVD and was so convinced from the outset that it was PVD's doing that he even tried to coerce Judith into writing down that it was PVD’s fault. Paul Van Dyk did not even arrive at the venue until 11:45pm.

Never before has an artist refused to help with the smooth running of our shows and try and dictate what they should do. At the end of the day this show was about all artists and the people who went to enjoy them, not about one individual.

My thanks to the other artists, in particular Judge Jules, who did adapt to the time changes which facilitated the production crews the time to change over the defective generator during his set which was causing the problem in the first place. It is my belief that because of Jules help in the set time before 12 midnight that the change over was done in such a professional manner that I believe the crowd were not even aware that there was a problem. So simple when people work together.

Hmmm thats why I wanted to hear both sides lets see what happens in my opinion for ATB to come out on Myspcae and write this is very unprofessional even if that is what happened.

Originally posted by BristolCity1992

Hmmm thats why I wanted to hear both sides lets see what happens in my opinion for ATB to come out on Myspcae and write this is very unprofessional even if that is what happened.

What was he supposed to do? I think he just wanted to apologize to fans for not playing, and that is right thing to do in my opinion.

ATB updated his blog

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Planetlove update...
Hi @ all,

as I see in some forums the organizers now try to tell the people that I refused the gig. Thats very funny and I..m very happy to have two witnesses that the organizers told me that I..m not allowed to play in front of Paul van Dyk.
They tried to give me a settime from 8:30 till 10 because they supposedly had trouble with some late DJ..s! But I was not able to play at this time because I just arrived in the hotel!

As we asked at 9:30 for a transportation to the Venue a guy from the organization told us, we don..t have to go to the venue because my show is cancelled. The reason: I did not took the playtime 8:30 - 10! This was a shock!

Anyway, we decided to go to the venue and talk with the organizers personally.

I TOLD THE ORGANIZERS, THAT EVEN IF THERE HAVE TROUBLE WITH THE SET TIMES I..M OPEN TO PLAY A SHORTER SET FROM 11-12! THATS ONE HOUR LESS! BUT THEY TOLD ME, THAT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO GIVE ME THIS SET TIME; BECAUSE OF PAUL WOULD CANCEL HIS SHOW THEN!

But one thing in the organizers statement is right! I was not in a very good mood... and I think everybody can understand that.

Of course the organizers never would tell the truth about having no balls to tell Paul van Dyk that they are the organizers of this event... not Paul van Dyk.

Since 10 years I have the same question! What is Paul van Dyk..s problem with my person?

Andre

What a mess.

Such a shame, i've lost a massive amount of respect for Paul van Dyk, and gained more for ATB. Good to see someone not hiding shocking stories like this.

Originally posted by Ben

Such a shame, i've lost a massive amount of respect for Paul van Dyk, and gained more for ATB. Good to see someone not hiding shocking stories like this.

Actually, Paul Van Dyk was always quite aggresive towards ATB and others, such as Tiesto. That is why i tend to believe ATB's version

Tbh, i've seen a lot of posts from people after Paul's gigs, and i've seen stories about him being moody etc.

Therefore, he's probably, along with Tiesto, a DJ i'm not massively eager to see anytime soon.

This is sad new indeed, so much for Planet "Love". I am a huge fan of both Paul van Dyk and ATB but i find myself believeing ATB a little more, PVD does seem like a dick sometimes. Always upsets me when things like this happen...

Oh God :s.. I always thought that PvD looks kind of arrogant but this? :/.. I definitely believe ATB..

Van Dick always acts like he is doing the crowd a favor to perform, IMHO.  I have never seen such a detached DJ in my life; he was more into his work in the past, but for the last 10 years, he's been very stuck up onstage.

Like Vera, I'm on Andre's side.  Saw ATB in Miami with Ferry Corsten and he did appreciate the fans.  Wasn't anywhere as good as Paul live, but treated the crowd well.

Pitiful, indeed.  Sounds like two hotheads to me anyway.