A 45-page-long rider of demands for the U.S. leg of Katy Perry’s 2011 world tour has been released. And in it, a certain member of her team is contractually-forbidden from looking at her. First things first, because no one likes wire hangers, this is possibly the longest rider I’ve seen. Some riders are long and the obnoxious riders are this long. But singers often have some little three-page non-event asking for Evian and green M&Ms. Not Perry. Because it would be like putting a vase of acid in her room, the rider asks that there be ‘ABSOLUTELY NO CARNATIONS,’ with that part in caps and underlined on a page of otherwise non-crazy demands. In the same document, there are specific demands on her driver who must never touch her luggage, must never ask for autographs nor talk to Perry/ her entourage/ nor her fans, nor open the car doors because, ‘The driver is not security, the driver does not open doors.’ Moreover, they must not look at Perry. The document ends with a comical homophone error,’DO NOT STAIR [SIC] AT THE BACKSEAT THRU [SIC] THE REARVIEUW [SIC] MIRROW [SIC].’
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what a bitch!
Anyone notice the spelling mistakes? Either the person who typed this up is horrible at spelling or this is fake..
Yeah, the mistakes are pretty obvious. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fake. This is from The Smoking Gun and they’re pretty good at cataloguing this stuff.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/katy-perry-concert-rider-138490
There are more riders from other artists here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage
Eh, I don’t know if I believe this. I mean, I’ve seen other celebrities lists and they just seem too obnoxious to be true!! I don’t know, I could be totally wrong!!
Do you honestly think that she wrote this? Seriously? I guarantee that it was a member of her management or entourage that put this together. Why would anyone assume it is the artist herself that wrote it?
Of course not, no, and I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise.
The wording relates to it being a list of demands for her tour, that was all – I doubt anyone thinks she wrote this herself.
Okay, so I made some edits and now the post is a little more passive. Which should avoid any future confusion. Obviously, nope, it’s not assumed this was written by her.
The reason why artists sometimes include what appears to be ridiculous clauses is to ensure that all of the other, and important, technical aspects, of their venue agreements are followed.
For example: if buried on page 43 of a 112 page venue contract, the artist requested a certain color of flower to be in his or her dressing room, it would allow the artist (and her agents) to make a determination of the likeliness of whether all of the other provisions (regarding ticketing, power, accommodations for staffing and trucks) were complied with. This puts them in a better position to gauge the potential for problems, and potential liability for breach of contract.
Aha, that makes absolute sense!
I’m more appalled at the spelling mistakes. Looks suspicious.