Washington state festival scammed by person pretending to be Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman.Richman, the former frontman of The Modern Lovers was booked to headline the LoveOly Summer Fest event on Saturday night (August 28), before organisers discovered it was a scam, as The Olympian reports.The hack was uncovered when local DJ Mark ‘Markly’ Morrison contacted Richman’s publicist Debbie Gulyas on Friday (August 27) to organise an interview with the artist at the festival.When receiving the request, neither Gulyas or Richman knew anything about the singer’s supposed booking at the festival, and his headline set was then cancelled.The festival is booked by the Olympia Film Society, who say they were contacted on the phone by someone purporting to be Richman, asking to be booked for the festival.“We are all