MySQL query with multiple 'OR' statements

Question

I have a query, that I have tested outside of PHP directly on SQL and still getting the same problem

The idea being that $currentArtist is sent through using the GET met

Answer 1

try

SELECT * FROM `".DBN."`.`events` WHERE
            `event_artist1`= '".$currentArtist."' OR `event_artist2`= '".$currentArtist."' OR `event_artist3` = '".$currentArtist."'";