scottieking Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 This sucks!! I was so stoked for day two. From the official website: LOLLAPALOOZA, 2004 CANCELS ALL DATES Los Angeles, CA - June 22, 2004 -- Even with what has been touted as the best line-up since its inception in 1991, with such eclectic and respected artists as Morrissey, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, and The Flaming Lips, among others, and the most competitive ticket prices in the marketplace for a tour this size, it was not enough to counter the weak economic state of this years summer touring season. Therefore, it is with the utmost regret that due to poor ticket sales across the board, the Lollapalooza, 2004 tour has been cancelled. This morning, tour organizers and concert promoters faced with several million dollars of losses, made the very tough decision to pull the tour. Perry Farrell, tour organizer, stated with his sincerest regrets, "My heart aches along with the bands, and all of our employees, whose hard work developed one of the most exciting and important tours that this nation was to see. My heart is broken." Marc Geiger, co-founder of the tour stated, "I am in utter disbelief that a concert of this stature, with the most exciting line-up I've seen in years did not galvanize ticket sales. I'm surprised that given the great bands and the reduced ticket prices that we didn't have enough sales to sustain the tour. Concert promoters across the country are facing similar problems. Many summer tours are experiencing weak ticket sales." Alex Hodges, Executive Vice President of HOB Concerts, commented, "In real terms, it's been a tough summer. Ticket sales have been mixed and often inexplicably soft. There are a number of contributing factors, and, as a result, many tours have been cut-back, rerouted or cancelled." Fans who have supported the tour and who have bought tickets nationwide will be given full refunds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 UH-OOHHH.... Kung is gonna be pissed about missing a Cheese show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 This really sucks. I had tickets for both shows in Toronto. I wanted to see the Lips and The Von Bondies bad. Same can be said about Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse and The Walkmen. What are the SCI going to do now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 THAT. FUCKING. SUCKS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Oh shit. I hope this doesn't mean that the Wilco -> Sonic Youth -> String Cheese Incident run in Ottawa will be cancelled as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Fuck, I forgot about Wilco too!! Sonic Youth would have been great. One good thing is that I won't have to listen to Morrissey's drone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Damn!! Marky if your out there, anyway you can make a cheese show happen in Toronto?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 hopefully a lot of the bands will keep the dates in the same cities only at smaller venues. I wouldn't be surprised to find a SCI/Flaming Lips/STS9 show still going on at Molson Amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainhouse Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 that sucks bigtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Shit, I had just been convinced by Stapes & The Sloth to go to this... That does suck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 This is fucking bullshit. All the best festivals this summer have been cancelled, and to add insult to injury I won't be surprised if the ottawa dates are cancelled too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I can't see String Cheese and all these other bands just scrapping their summer tour dates can you?!?! Obviously some of these bands won't make it up here (probably STS9) but I don't see SCI throwing away an entire summer tour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 wilco won't cancel here, they're only playing 3 lollapalooza dates to begin with, just to fill some holes in their own tour. would't be suprised if the SCI and Sonic Youth dates are cancelled though. ad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 We should have seen it coming. Here's a story from yesteday's Rolling Stone regarding poor ticket sales this summer: Summer Tours Slumping Concerts take a hit from high ticket prices A month after promoters declared the concert industry healthier than ever, big summer tours such as Ozzfest, Fleetwood Mac, the Dead and Lollapalooza have run into a concrete wall of slow sales. "Ticket sales are mixed, and in some cases they appear to be substantially off from the past," says Alex Hodges, executive vice president of House of Blues Concerts, one of the three major U.S. promotion companies. The summer's success stories so far are big-buzz superstar events such as Prince and Madonna, plus low-cost packages including the long-running Warped Tour, Alanis Morissette/Barenaked Ladies and No Doubt/Blink-182. Also, the three-day Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, recently scored its third annual sellout, with 90,000 tickets. Otherwise, sales have been universally slow. Promoters and agents list several reasons for the unexpected ticket-buying malaise: Once fans spend their summer-entertainment money on Prince and Madonna, they have little left over for Kiss or Ozzfest; some of 2003's biggest draws, such as Fleetwood Mac and Aerosmith, have already toured several summers in a row at high prices; and the core baby-boomer audience is finally getting tired of amphitheater lawns. "What consumer wants to sit out at night in Phoenix, Arizona, in 105 degrees to watch Daryl Hall and John Oates?" says Dennis Arfa, president of Writers and Artists Group International, an agency representing Metallica, Rod Stewart and others. "People don't have an unlimited amount of funds. In the amphitheater business, there is some concern." Nobody's panicking -- yet. In early 2003, promoters expressed similar gloom, until Bruce Springsteen, the Eagles and others barnstormed the country. Says Seth Hurwitz, whose company, I.M.P. Productions, books the Merriweather Post Pavilion near Washington, D.C.: "Over the last ten years, I've heard 'This is the worst yet' every year." STEVE KNOPPER (Posted Jun 21, 2004) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey d Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 fuck! FUCK THIS! i just bought my tickets literally 2 MINUTES AGO - no kidding!!! WTF????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Freak Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I wanted to go to day 2 soooo bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Yeah but did any of you (besides Jaimoe and Mikey) actually purchase advanced tickets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 yup dave O im sittin on a pair and my roomate has 3... Ticketmaster though has no info of a cancellation of course... heaven for bid them actually giving money back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Freak Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Yeah but did any of you (besides Jaimoe and Mikey) actually purchase advanced tickets? I didn't, but in my defence, the show is in august and I couldn't tell by the website which bands would actually hit toronto--I wanted to make sure the bands I wanted to see were actaully going to be in Toronto for the show. Some bands were only going to be at certain venues--it was a bit confusing. Disappointed non the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I didn't buy either, it was going to be a last minute lawn ticket kind of thing... I'm not really all that torn up, but I am kinda pissed kung will have to miss SCI... I was really interested in what his review was going to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 It does suck as I was looking forward to seeing (in order of personal importance to me) Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Gomez, SCI, The Polyphonic Spree. But there is a reason for everything so now I'm going to go to Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson at Cooperstown, NY (the home of the baseball hall of fame!) to perform at one of the first ballparks in history, Doubleday Field on Friday August 6th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Willie is back playing already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I didn't intend that as finger pointing, just curiousity. Obviously advanced sales are the only guage a promoter has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Dude, Cooperstown is awesome... i went there in grade 9 with my dad and a buddy, it's totally a nuclear-family-white-picket-fence kind of place... It would be cool to see it flooded with heads though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Freak Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I didn't intend that as finger pointing, just curiousity. Obviously advanced sales are the only guage a promoter has. I didn't think you were pointing fingers, no worries there. I did, however, want to point out the strange line up thing where only some bands were playing certain venues...but you couldn't, by the way they set up the site, really tell who was playing where. Maybe a little "unorganized promotion" going on there. I hate to put down Perry, but they have got to take a bit of the fall here too. I've been to tonnes of shows where the turn out has been less than supportive...but the show went on regardless. This sucks either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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