June 23, 2004
LOLLAPALOSERS
Morrissey fans will be depressed. Well, more depressed:
Posted by Tim Blair at June 23, 2004 04:57 PMThe Lollapalooza music festival tour has been canceled because of poor ticket sales, according to its Web site.
The tour, featuring Morrissey, Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips, had been set to begin July 14 in Auburn, Wash., and continue through August, including stops in Toronto, New York, Atlanta and Dallas.
Tour organizers and concert promoters "faced with several million dollars of losses, made the very tough decision to pull the tour," the Web site said Tuesday.
"faced with several million dollars of losses, made the very tough decision to pull the tour," the Web site said
How many millions of losses does it take before the decision becomes "very tough", rather than just "difficult"? Whatever the answer I clearly need to become a tour organiser.
Posted by: Simon at June 23, 2004 at 05:12 PMAll the fun went out of the tour when the Jim Rose Circus left and Eddie Veter stopped drinking bile beer.
For the full story try and find the book "Freak Like Me" by Jim Rose. A mildly gross but highly entertaining read.
Posted by: JakeD at June 23, 2004 at 05:41 PMHow did SONIC YOUTH get out of their contract with HULLABALOOZA?!
Posted by: Richard at June 23, 2004 at 06:59 PMMorrisey - yes the manic depressive's favourite!
Posted by: tolietpaper at June 23, 2004 at 08:01 PMMorrisey - yes the manic depressive's favourite!
Posted by: tolietpaper at June 23, 2004 at 08:02 PMLollapalooza plays outdoor venues. So nobody wanted to sit outside on a sunny summer day and listen to some depressed, miserable shit like Morrissey moan about how crap his life was. Who woulda thunk it.
In a way, this is a godsend though. Who would even want to see the typical Morrissey fan in broad daylight? >
Posted by: David Crawford at June 24, 2004 at 12:34 AMHaha! This is best news I have heard all day.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at June 24, 2004 at 01:13 AMI was surprised to hear it was cancelled, mainly because I hadn't heard about it beforehand at all.
Posted by: ushie at June 24, 2004 at 02:53 AMFunny, but I didn't hear anyone say when Ray Charles died "It should have been that fuckin' Morrissey instead." Might have thought it, but didn't say it...
Posted by: Ken at June 25, 2004 at 03:58 AMThat would mean acknowledging that Morrissey still, in fact, inhabiting this plane of existence. Most people are glad not to have to remember this.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 26, 2004 at 12:04 PM