Hello everyone, this is Jon from As Forever Fades. I just wanted to inform all of you about how our night at The Cage went tonight. It went absolutely horrible and I felt it was my obligation to warn our friends, fans, and other bands about the load of bull that we encountered tonight......

We met up with our friends from His Name Was Yesterday at the show. They're on tour right now all the way from Buffalo, NY, and were supposed to share the stage with us tonight. However, right before the show started we talked the venue owner, whose name is Daniel I believe, about our show guarantees that were promised to us and His Name Was Yesterday, and he denied ever making a promise of a guarantee. We both had offer letters that were filled out by Daniel and forwarded to us by our booking agent which showed that we were promised 50 bucks plus a percentage of the door. After looking at the offer letters, he still openly denied to us that he'd ever seen them or filled them out. So basically, he was telling us a bold-faced lie right to our faces and telling us that our booking agent was full of crap.

As if that wasn't enough, he went on to talk smack about how he never offers bands guarantees and it wouldn't have mattered if it was us or a national, he still would've only offered a door split at best. This guy even name-dropped the band Flyleaf and said that he had the opportunity to get them for a show for a $15,000 guarantee, but said that it didn't matter if it would've been Flyleaf or a local band, everyone plays his venue for a door split. How much sense does that make? In other words, he'll never have more than local bands play at his venue because no national-touring band  is going to play a show without a guarantee. Which raises the question: WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF RUNNING A MUSIC VENUE IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BRING IN BANDS FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TO PLAY MUSIC!!! WHY WASTE YOUR TIME, MONEY, AND EFFORT? THERE ISN'T A POINT!!!!!!! IT'S STUPID, AND IT'S EVEN MORE STUPID TO SCREW OVER A BAND THAT HAS LOTS OF FANS OUTSIDE OF YOUR TOWN BECAUSE THEY'LL DO WHAT THEY CAN TO SHUT YOUR ASS DOWN!!!!!!

So is breaking a fifty dollar promise to a band worth your reputation being ruined? I think not, but apparently the management of The Cage thinks so. There comes a time when a band has had enough and needs to stand up for itself. We don't care if some people won't like us now because we spoke our minds about this matter, because unfortunately situations like this happen all the time all over the nation, and yes, especially in Evansville. It's hard to understand why people don't have a lick of business common sense sometimes, but people like that don't. So if you all agree with what I'm saying, show some support and contact The Cage and tell them that what they're doing is wrong. Tell them they'll have to answer for it, and hopefully they won't be doing business for much longer so they can't take advantage of bands anymore with their shady business practices. We've had enough, and we're sorry to the fans that showed up to see us play tonight. We hope you understand and we'll play soon for you guys again. There's still the Maylene show on July 12, so if you wanna come see us at that show we have plenty of tickets available!

Until then, keep it metal, and don't forget to standup for yourselves as well. By the way, when we all went to confront Daniel again before we left the guy had his car moved from the parking lot and went and hid somewhere in the venue so he wouldn't have to talk to us again. Oh, and because he was scared to death!!! You form your own opinion of the guys' character..... Lord knows we've had other bands tell us he's screwed them too, so do yourselves a favor: STAY AWAY FROM THE CAGE!!!!

Thanks and we love you guys, our fans!!!!!

Jon, Seth, Jeremy, and Ryan