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Laptop is somewhere in Heathrow Terminal Five

April 3, 2008 | 12 Comments
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Calvin Harris has lost an entire album's worth of new music after his laptop went missing at Heathrow Terminal Five.

Harris' laptop went missing at the airport after the solo artist was returning from the US.

A spokesperson for the label told BBC News that the laptop contained the only copies of Harris' forthcoming new album.

"He has lost the only copy of the new album," the spokesperson said. "It is a big cause for concern – months of work have gone into that."

The spokesperson revealed that Harris had been offered £750 componsation.

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lovejoylovejoy

Apr 4, 2008

for a man who makes a living from electronic music...surely he should back it up?!?! brilliant, if only someone stole his laptop first time round and we would never have been subjected to his, i dont want to say shit, but tear inducing music.Ive never admired a thief so much in my life.

nahnahnah

Apr 4, 2008

So at least some good has come out of this fiasco! We will be spared more dreary disco wank, at least for a while.

cursin_donkey

Apr 4, 2008

I can't believe that he has not got another copy or backups his work. If he treats his own work this carelessly then he derserves to lose it - lesson learned!

mr_mojo_risin

Apr 4, 2008

decent the guys at terminal 5 have got something right lets pray they dont find this laptop. if i was calvin i would take the Â£750 and run

lipgloss

Apr 4, 2008

ha ha, what sort of idiot spends months on a project and doesn't back it up...i smell either a pr stunt or a complete fool!

thecurators

Apr 4, 2008

so wait... he/the label don't have any form of backup and he didn't think to have his laptop as hand luggage seeing as every other person knows about the heathrow terminal five issue... oh. dear.

qcardy

Apr 4, 2008

that sucks...back up your files, people.

stew_nutt11111111

Apr 4, 2008

thank fuck for that

Fergz

Apr 4, 2008

Oh well let's hope it's dealt with like most suspicious unattended luggage - controlled explosion!!!

Lord Dainippon

Apr 4, 2008

Now, that'll teach him the biggest lession for not backing up his music files...Though "months of work have gone into that" sounds like an overstatement as his first album sounds like he only knocked that one up in a matter of days on the music program "Reason"...

lovejoylovejoy

Apr 4, 2008

every single 'dj' of the carpeted dancefloor in Bar Med and Yates Wine Lodge up and down the country will be heartbroken as im sure the next Calvin harris album would have guaranteed half the nights playlist after it had been played 4 times each.

Rob:Ire

Apr 5, 2008

I wonder what happened when the the guy who stole the laptop noticed that it was filled with Calvin Harris shit? Did he devise a cunning plan to sell the meterial or (more likely) think "What the hell is this bollocks on my new laptop?" and delete it immediately? I'm pretty sure that the laptop wasn't stolen. Calvin Haris is such an asshole that his shit music is probably located up his arse (where his head is half the time.)