Ali Zoghi | SydneyAcousticDuo.com.au | Ripoff | Wannabe Player | Ripoff | Overgrown Ego | Unearned Confidence | Sydney Internet

Background

We hired Ali Zoghi of SydneyAcousticDuo.com.au in February 2016 to play at my daughter's Bat Mitzvh. 

The Problem(s)

Ali Zoghi was a cancer right from the start. Here is a list of some of the problems and remarks made by Ali Zoghi

1) How He Introduced His Band:

a)    Here is how Ali Zoghi introduced his band:

"Sydney Acoustic Duo is a Duo. There is me, Ali Zoghi, I’m lead self-promoter. Frances Castley is our neurotic and exploited (by me) singer. She gets paid like 10% of what I earn (but don't tell her). Sydney Acoustic Dueo is like an electro-deep-anal-rental-house-blow-wave-screamo-elmo-nu-shartcore band. Yeeaahhh man like indie, but more kind of like, indie. Imagine like Tracey Chapman and Rammstein, we’re that kind of indie, but with slightly less André Rieu. It’s like so hard to describe our sound, we’ve been described as undescrabbleible. We can’t be pigeon-holed. Or even any type of poultry-holed."

b)   His own description of his music was:

"We sound like…imagine getting a $5 iTunes gift card and imagine you’re going to buy that Bruno Mars song ironically because your friends are around but you really want to buy that Sinead O’Connor song about how comparisons are hard. Now imagine you put that gift card in the microwave and pressed some buttons on the microwave." 

c)  How he described people who booked live gigs with Sydney Acoustic Duo and were paying customers:

"I’m SO grateful for all my regular supporters who come to my ‘gigs’ though. All the confused yuppies, (((redacted))) and all other people I rip off, not to mention the other losers who just hire me because i call myself a "singer". I’m friends with everyone, I'm not a coward and stab people in the front. Trust me. By the way, please buy my CD for $45. I'm going to be bigger than Jesus"

2) Pretentious Attiude: 

I asked where he bought his clothes and he said, "I bought my raw vegan topknot on etsy. My friends’ band’s girlfriends buy local vintage disused topknot hair and make coffee filters out of them that they sell at a farmer’s market."

3) Perverse Sexual Remarks 

I politely asked Ali Zoghi to improve the standard of his guitar playing at my daughter's Bat Mitzvah. He proceeded to go an outrageous outburst: 

"Look man. I’m gonna smash this jewish s**t I matched on Tinder with my 20 incher. She’s so keen she even gave me her number after I asked for it 19 times and threatened to bash her. I just finished 10 reps of selfies and 2 sets of DJ Almond Buren’s Live from Ibiza 2015 New Years Eve Essential Mix. I love jews so much this chick is gonna let me f*ck her in the bum with no condom.”

4) Overgrown Ego 

It appeared as if Ali Zoghi had attained this unearned sense of confidence in his singing (in)ability from remarks uttered by those of familial relations and not by an objective observer. 

 Conclusion

Don't hire Ali Zoghi