SCREECHING WEASEL will no longer be teaming up with MXPX for their debut Australian tour in May as it has been cancelled.
From the Drunk Promoter...
Normally my announcements are really exciting, but this is the opposite; it fucking sucks. I received an email from Ben saying that Screeching Weasel can no longer come to Australia this May. Unfortunately my presenting partners and I are cancelling the whole tour. Everyone gets a refund of course. Read a statement from the band below:
"Hello Screeching Weasel Fans,
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances we are going to have to cancel ALL of our upcoming Australia dates in May. Ticket holders will receive an automatic refund from your point of sale. If there are any issues please reach out to either Oztix or Eventbrite. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you, as we know many of you have made travel plans for these shows. We would also like to thank and send out an apology to MXPX band, crew and fans. They made every attempt to continue with plans to play the dates, but in the end, due to no fault of their own, it did not work out. Thanks for your support and hopefully we can make this up to you guys at some point soon.
Thank You
Screeching Weasel"
More from the Drunk Promoter in response to MXPX's complaint that the Drunk Promoter wasn't interested in continuing the tour as Zebrahead / MXPX..
"I can't do a fancy, well acted video because I'm not as good looking. But here's my statement on the whole mess:
We've been discussing a Screeching Weasel tour for over a year, not an MxPx tour. SW just happened to be bringing them out as part of the package. We did email them, we just didn't want to do a different tour at such short notice. Here's what we told them:
"After discussing this with everyone involved we decided that given the headlining band has pulled out we thought it would be too messy to add in bands, change the tour, and try to make all this work at such short notice.
We think that venues, ticket price and marketing would all need to be reworked and a one month turn around is too risky for us. We appreciate the amount of effort MxPx and yourself have put in to try and make this work."
Even though I did my best to stay positive and think of ways to make this work, there's no way I was going to try and convince my partners to risk thousands of dollars when I wasn't even sure how it would go myself. People are underestimating how much pull Screeching Weasel had."
Screeching Weasel / MXPX Australian Tour
20 May Prince Bandroom, Melbourne
21 May Manning Bar, Sydney
22 May Max Watts, Brisbane
Tickets on sale February 12th at 11am (AEST)