The Smoking Gun releases M.I.A. and Rage Against the Machine’s tour riders

The Smoking Gun has a recurring feature where they reveal the details of famous musician’s tour riders, and today they’ve uploaded copies of M.I.A. and Rage Against the Machine’s riders.

 

Typically, releasing tour riders is meant to expose how decadent musicians want to be treated, but it in M.I.A.’s case, it mostly just reveals a need for a whole lot of booze (a bunch of beer for three dressing rooms) and a need for lockable door handles instead of padlocks on dressing rooms. The only random item is the fact that M.I.A. demands a variety of cheese backstage.

 

In Rage Against the Machine’s case, however, the tour rider exposes that they tour with an impossibly large entourage (like 50 people), and they demand 6 pairs of boxers and socks for each performance.

 

To read the tour riders mentioned here, plus Rihanna’s, Taylor Swift’s, Vanessa Hudgens’, and Chris Daughtry’s, go here.   

 

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3 Responses

November 10, 2008 at 11:39 p.m.

I started "reading" Rihanna's but was so disturbed by the misuse of "punctuation" that I had to gouge out my eyes instead.

November 11, 2008 at 1:43 a.m.

can't blame a girl for her passion for specific cheese

November 11, 2008 at 8:34 a.m.

Rihanna's pages and pages of nonsense is just depressing. She wouldn't even be a star if not for her songwriters and producers.

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