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Band Leader Says Suicide Will Be Broadcast Online
« on: Oct 4^th, 2003, 4:19pm »

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TAMPA, Fla. The leader of a band called Hell on Earth said Saturday he would defy threats of criminal charges and hold an Internet-broadcast concert featuring the suicide of a terminally ill fan.

Billy Tourtelot said in a phone interview that the concert and suicide would take place Saturday night in two separate, undisclosed locations in St. Petersburg. He wouldn't give any details about the venues but said the band would broadcast the events on its Web page.

Tourtelot's announcement of the plan last month led the city to ban the event with an ordinance and prompted a judge to issue an injunction against it.

Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has said that anyone who assists in a suicide could be charged with a felony and face up to 15 years in prison.

The person threatening suicide has said he is dying and wants to promote his right-to-die views. Tourtelot, 33, said he was standing up for what he believed in to grant his friend his dying wish.

"There's nothing bad about that. It's giving the right to die with human dignity and compassion for those that we love," he said.

Kevin Hayslett, an attorney for Tourtelot, said the band leader wanted to go ahead with the show despite the lawyer's advice that he not do so.

Tourtelot said the opposition only helped the band promote the concert. "I think they wasted a lot of people's tax dollars," he said.

Neither city officials nor a police spokesman returned phone messages Saturday.

Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the band's Web site, said he would continue serving the site and carry the concert until he receives complaints from law enforcement officials to shut it down.

"They haven't broken any law and I can't just turn them off," he said. "Myself, I think it's pretty twisted."

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Re: Band Leader Says Suicide Will Be Broadcast Onl
« Reply #1 on: Oct 4^th, 2003, 4:29pm »

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BREAKING NEWS: CITY SAYS NO TO SUICIDE SHOW, BUT BAND SAYS YES

ST. PETERSBURG - In an effort to prohibit the band, Hell On Earth, from performing their October 4th date of the Haunted Tour, the city of St. Petersburg, in cooperation with the Florida Governors Office, have strong-armed venues into canceling their performance.

Due to the overwhelming response and in accordance with an oath, bandleader, BillY Tourtelot gave to his terminally ill friend, the show scheduled for October 4th will indeed take place at an undisclosed location in St. Petersburg City limits. It will be broadcast live over the internet on www.hellonearth.net. The show will include a live suicide by a terminally ill Euthanasia Society member.

BillY was quoted as saying, This show is far more than a typical Hell On Earth performance. This is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide. This performance will go on in its entirety and it will be in St. Petersburg on October 4th.

Past band performances have included sodomizing skinned calves and blending dead rats then having fans drink the concoction.

BREAKING NEWS: GOVERNOR BANS CONTROVERSIAL CONCERT

ST. PETERSBURG - Governor Jeb Bush, Mayor Rick Baker, Bill Foster and the St. Petersburg City Council are forcing the State Theatre owners to cancel the Hell On Earth, October 4th, St. Petersburg tour date. They have demanded that the State Theatre owners write a press release stating the decision to cancel the show is the State Theatres alone. In addition, St. Petersburg City Council has mandated they must first review and approve of the State Theatres press release before State Theatre co-owner, Dave Hundley, signs it and only then can he release it to the press. The concert began receiving international attention when it was revealed there would be a live suicide carried out at the event by a terminally ill Euthanasia Society member. St. Petersburg City Council has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday, September 24th at 1:00PM EST. It will be conducted at the State Theatre located at 687 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg.

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Re: Band Leader Says Suicide Will Be Broadcast Onl
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18775

Hell on Earth Show Banned

Judge takes action against suicide band

A Florida judge issued a temporary injunction on Thursday banning the metal group Hell on Earth from performing their "suicide" show within St. Petersburg city limits on Saturday. The move came after the band's leader, Billy Tourtelot, insisted that his group would go ahead with its plans to have an unnamed terminally ill patient commit suicide during Hell on Earth's Saturday night show.

"[Governor] Jeb Bush himself is getting people to ban this show, and he can't legally do that," Tourtelot told Rolling Stone late last week. "This is about government officials abusing their powers and violating our First Amendment rights."

After losing bookings at two local clubs due to the uproar over the stunt, Tourtelot said last week that Hell on Earth would Web cast the show from an undisclosed location, while the suicide would take place at a separate, also undisclosed, location.

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Re: Band Leader Says Suicide Will Be Broadcast Onl
« Reply #3 on: Oct 4^th, 2003, 6:22pm »

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ok, this band is scarey, with or without the broadcasting of this fans suicide......ack

certainly not my taste in music

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