It’s not often that we here at ITM HQ remove our rainbow plated party hats and slip on our serious caps, or in this case, our serious bandannas, but we’re seeing an increasingly frequent trend occurring right now and we think it’s got to stop. What’re we on about? Violence against DJs, of course.

A while back there was the news of a crazed Muscles fan decking one half of Sydney duo Bag Raiders for not playing enough of their Ice Cream loving hero and of course the story of some Mexican clubbers terrorizing Steve Lawler – both of which made our epic Disaster Gigs gallery – but now there’s more instances of violence threatening our beloved DJs, this time in Israel where a local DJ has been bashed for spinning some Pet Shop Boys!

According to the Associated Foreign Press, the DJ (who has remained unnamed) had been booked to play at a local Bedouin wedding and all was going well until he switched up his set from traditional Arabic music to more Western tracks complete with some Pet Shop Boys action. From there things turned ugly.

Incensed by the Pet Shop Boys’ ability to incite some female portions of the wedding party to dance in a lewd and inappropriate manner several men approached the DJ asking him to revert to Arabic music. When he refused the men administered a “severe beating” to the DJ.

“The fact that women were dancing at the wedding goes against tradition and is a dishonour to their husbands,” one angry wedding guest said.

Okay, okay, we can understand kind of understand becoming a little violent with a wedding DJ (who hasn’t, right?) because they’re usually uniformly terrible, but still it’s a pretty wild story. Maybe he would’ve gotten away with it if he’d played The Funky Chicken song or some ABBA instead of the Pet Shop Boys? If there’s one thing that we can be sure of from this story it’s that punters are directing their rage at DJs more and more these days, and if they’re all bruised up or in hospital, who will spin tunes for us?

To violence against DJs, ITM says “no”.