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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Shit Talk / Business Hell Hath No Fury Like an Opening Band Abused

Posted by David Schmader on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM

From the wilds of the I, Anonymous forums:

Who the fuck do you think you are?
We were super excited to hear that our first ever Showbox Market show was going to be opening up for your band. We knew you drew big crowds and we really wanted to put on the best show possible. We spent weeks preparing by practicing, selling tickets (which we HATE doing), and even spent many hours of many days working on a background video to go along with each song in our short 30 minute set. Not only were you guys total dicks when we introduced ourselves, but then you denied us the use of our background video that we so painstakingly synced with our songs on the basis that your band had a video as well (which was just fucking LAME-ASS stock footage, by the way). Who are you to call the shots on the venue's video gear and creatively stifle another band? Are you afraid of being upstaged by the opening local act? And then you had the fucking nerve to ask us if our merch girl will work YOUR merch booth too. To which we kindly obliged. FUCK YOU. We hope you fucking break up.

Well then.

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ha ha... so right.

Posted by kdiddy on September 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM

I'll bet there is much much more to this story than it seems

Posted by the whole story? on September 10, 2009 at 2:52 PM

I'm really interested to know which band it was, both the opener and the headliner.

Posted by Hernandez

on September 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM

someone figure out who played Showbox at the Market on Aug 29th (or around that time)!

Posted by StereopathicMusic

on September 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM

I doubt that would have happened when the Showbox was still a locally owned venue. I too would love to know the band... mainly to know if it was an AEG Live band calling the shots over a local venue and bands.

Posted by dan10things