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Danger! Depravity! Experimental pop music! Apparently it's all there in droves at a live performance by the scariest band working today, NicklebackAnimal Collective.

After Animal Collective played Philadelphia's Starlight Ballroom on Friday night, Sean Agnew of Philadelphia concert promoters R5 Productions received an e-mail from an angry mother of an attendee. He was kind enough to share it with us.

It reads:

You should be brought up on charges for what went down Saturday night, is this an underground cult you are running with Animal Collective?

My daughter and her friends were terrified, no security, no police, not even a show, music playing backwards and men trying to lure them away, only one door to exit out and no cab would come pick them up
because the location they gave did not exist, no one ever heard of the Polaris club or the address.

What kind of scheme are you running.....

I will find someone to listen and have your organization investigated, you endangered several young adults on Saturday night.

I hope your child never goes thru what hell you put ours thru,
I hope you rot in hell, or is that were your from!

"Underground cult?" "Music playing backwards"? "Only one door to exit out"? Sounds like every Animal Collective show we've ever been to! What's the problem here again? At least there wasn't any pot smoking!

Agnew's response to the mother informed her that there were 12 R5 staff members, one police officer, and two "uniformed and armed licensed state security officers" stationed at the venue (indie kids can sure get rowdy!), which happens to have three exits, and had plenty of cabs out front.

He ended his e-mail with "We are not a cult and you have horrible grammar. Good luck on your journey with your child."

Animal Collective dates follow the jump. BEWARE.

THE MARK OF THE BEAST:

10-01 New York, NY - Webster Hall %
10-15 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
10-16 Oslo, Norway - John Dee
10-17 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
10-18 Berlin, Germany - Festaal Kreutzurgh
10-19 Cologne, Germany - Stadtgarten
10-20 St. Gallen, Switzerland - Theatre Place
10-22 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel und Gefaehrlich
10-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
10-24 Paris, France - Cabaret Sauvage
10-25 Lyon, France - Ground Zero
10-26 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique-Orangerie
10-28 Bracknell, England - Wilde Theatre
10-29 Brighton, England - St George's Church
10-30 Bristol, England - Trinity
11-01 London, England - Astoria
11-03 Manchester, England - New Century Hall
11-04 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod
11-05 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
11-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Ora Mor

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