It feels like a goddamn deja-vu having to announce another cancellation only a few days before.
This year it's our tour that we were about to start THIS friday!
Few gigs will still take place, more about that further down the page.
The reasons for the cancellation of the tour are not to be found in
this band or any of the other bands, but only and completely with the
promoter, the Metal Maniacs Agency of Florin Sandor.
While the communication was good in the beginning, and the plans seemed
to fall into place quickly, it started to become more difficult to stay
in contact as Florin would sometimes not answer for weeks. When we
didn't have a contract one week before the tour should have started we
contacted the other bands and the bus company, and guess what -
everywhere the same, nobody has received enough information and no
advances had been paid. This, together with the fact that already some
venues had cancelled their respective gigs without Florin or someone
else from the Metal Maniacs Agency feeling the need to inform us about
these chances in the last week before the start left us no real choice
but to cancel the tour now.
Also Florin didn't answer any calls or e-mails in the past few days
until (what a coincidence!) Shining released an official statement
yesterday through their homepage.
We and all the other bands would have loved to get on the road together
to see so many countries and their ways how to celebrate metal - what's
happening is in no way the fault of any of the bands, but it's all due
to lousy plannning and shitty information politics of the promoter
Florin and his Metal Maniacs Agency.
We hope to start another tour at some point of time in the future; and
of course that will be much better planned and organized by a different
promoter and there will be no excuses or retreats then!
After all these bad news there's at least 2 good ones: The show on
saturday in Dresden will take place, with a different line-up (thanks
to Enni!). Also our appearance at the Wolfszeit Festival is safe; even
more since we will play on both days; each a completely different set!
(thanks to Philipp!).
I'd like to take the moment to advertise our t-shirts, that are
available again in all sizes. Like Patches and CD's you can order them
by
e-mail directly from us!