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Wilco UK tour dates cancelled
Here’s some tissue-worthy news for all who entered the recent Wilco competition - the band has regretfully announced that they will be unable to meet their dates for the UK portion of their world-spanning tour due to a scheduling conflict. The band released this information last night on the Wilco World website, after we posted details of the Sky Arts contest. Thanks to The Line of Best Fit who blogged this information and to Mrs Leroy Brown of Last FM who tipped us off about the cancellation before any official announcement and received only disbelief for her trouble.
This stinks and I can’t believe no one has questioned their reasoning.
For a “scheduling conflict” read: “better offer”.
Basically they have ditched their UK fans. An illness, a death in the family, drug issues whatever - we would have forgiven them. But this: scheduling?
For the record I emailed their management asking the real reason. They offered my tickets to a European gig instead which I declined as it wasn’t feasible to take days off work and spend £200 getting there.
They also offered me whatever I liked from their online Wilco store. Again I declined - but instead pressed them on what was so important that the UK shows were dropped.
Again they didn’t answer.
So anyway, it stinks. I wish people would just stop trumpeting their lame excuse and actually criticise the band and its management for absolutely dumping on their UK fans.
Posted by ourman • 31 October 2007 at 1:11 pm