Gilberto and I were on our way to see Crystal Castles last night at The Granada in Dallas when a friend messaged me to say the show was cancelled due to a fight. Supposedly the band that went on before, Vega, started some shit with the duo – enough to call off the show.
Luckily they will be playing Coachella this Friday night (8pm). On a side note Gilberto and I are still desperate and are looking for some love. Artist passes anyone?
(update after the jump on the real reason the show was cancelled)
Update from Fleet Footed Monk:
The show was cancelled because the venue owner got too worried they would blow the sound system after hearing their sound check. Apparently, CC management and the Granada management spent hours arguing over whether or not to let them play. Hell, in the line I could here them running tests over and over.
Anyway, the guys from the band personally walked down the last half of the line outside. Apologized and explained what was going on.
Show cancelled because The venue feared CC would destroy the soundsystem. LOL at your post.
Vega got kicked off for drinking CC’s beer at the Austin show.
Vega didn’t start shit…Vega got replaced and then started shit.
If you can’t handle the band….don’t book them. Pretty sad that Haileys could accomodate them, but not the Granada.
Come on dude, get your facts right :/
The show was cancelled because the venue owner got too worried they would blow the sound system after hearing their sound check. Apparently, CC management and the Granada management spent hours arguing over whether or not to let them play. Hell, in the line I could here them running tests over and over.
Anyway, the guys from the band personally walked down the last half of the line outside. Apologized and explained what was going on.
yeah eff CC, so sad that audience missed out on seeing Vega, it was going to be a great show.
Guess I was way off on that one…someone honestly said there was a fight with the band that went on before so they cancelled the show. I will kill him for misleading me!
vega ended up spinning FOR FREE at fallout lounge. shucksers.
I work at the Granada, the band did not send a rider stating what they needed to perform the show which is necessary for any show and felt the lows were not low enough for them to play. They knew this all day and waited for a sold out crowd to appear before cancelling show. They also stated they would not play if the opener played with them. Quite childish and a lotta people suffer. The band manager was LYING to you! They also threatened to stop playing if they saw even one camera no matter the size. Looks like they were looking for a way not to play!
I can’t understand why *anyone* would want to see Crystal Castles. Their show at the Independent last year was one of the worst I’d ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot of shows). Not worth the time. The desperate hipster kids were acting like it was the greatest show ever, but it was shockingly weak. All I can say is – the drugs must have been awesome.
They felt the lows were not low enough. Why were they not allowed to lower it? Seems like that is the main issue from this show not happening. I highly doubt they were demanding much more from your sound engineers than at any other show they perform. Sounds to me the Granada was not willing to work with them on achieving the sound they wanted.
bottom line is: who cares? coachella 2009.
who kehs?
If anyone really cares…this is what Granada had to say…
A MESSAGE FROM THE GRANADA THEATER:
Let me start with a definition:
Pre-madonna: Pre-madonnas cannot help the way they are because their parents spoiled them and they are still developing their personalities. All a pre-madonna has to do is whine and their parents give them what they want.
Here’s how our day went at the Granada on Tue:
Vega (Alan from Ghosthustler) opened for CC in Austin Monday night. At 5pm (3 hrs before doors) we received a call from CC that Vega could not be on the bill.
Vega had been approved by CC in advance for the bill. Early on Tue CC hired a light tech from Austin that is also a DJ to replace Vega.
CC could have communicated with Vega early in the day before they left Austin.
Vega was at the Granada waiting to soundcheck.
CC would not enter the building until Vega was gone from the premise.
Alan was super cool. No pre-madonna.
We’ve never seen this request. The other co-promoter out of Austin has never seen this kind of request.
CC wining…
CC soundchecked at 6pm instead of at 4pm.
CC didn’t “like the sound of their kickdrum”.
CC insists that “more woofers be brought in”.
Rental places close at 6pm.
It is now 7pm.
Granada has 16 – 18″ sub-woofers and 12 – 15″ sub-woofers. Also 32 – 8″ midranges. Lots of firepower.
Sound check was great.
CC says they would rather cancel the show than possibly not have enough kick drum.
Granada begs that the show goes on.
Granada even offers to dismantle sub woofer stacks and place them in different places in the room.
Granada was willing to do anything to have the show go on.
CC waits until after 10pm to give final cancellation.
The show must go on. Life is all perception. One person sees the day as beautiful, another sees the day as crap.
Why would any band crap on their fans like this?
Insecurity is a cancer. Love yourself. Love your sound guy and the system at the club you are playing.
Play the show. Then listen to your fans. If you don’t like the sound at a club never go back to the club.
We’ve had every big band imaginable in every genre imaginable and had amazing shows.
Nobody has complained about our sound. This is totally out of left field.
The sound at Granada is amazing…and would have been if CC would have just got on stage and played.
Today, Granada is refunding ticket cost and entire service charge to each patron. No one cares for live music more than we do. We’ve put together an amazing room, staff and sound system.
We’ll see you soon fellow music fans.
Mike Schoder and all the Staff at Granada.
I fucking love The Granada and all the people there…music is always amazing and I am 100% with the staff on this one… thx Mike for being a stand up guy.
shok, I recieved that text message and my eye witness still insists there was a fight too. maybe not who was in the fight, but a fight none the less.
well done with the Granada interview by the way…impressive
lol i wasnt gonna post a reply, but im sorry but GILBERTO is a dumbass! if you are going to dog on a group and call someone a “primadonna” make sure you at least spell it right….
im glad you did mike! because gilberto didnt write that DUMBAss that came from the Granada people…we just put it up!
I support Granada theater on this one…Crystal Castles member Ethan, actually went out into the crowd and approached almost all the fans lying to their faces telling them that Granada did not want them to go on. Ethan stated that, “they didn’t want them to play because they were afraid that they were going to blow their sound system”, I now know that this was a lie. It seems as if gracing the crowd with his appearance was going to justify their actions. Ethan then kept stating, “will make it up to you”, this might be bullshit as well. When I directly asked him if the show was going to be cancelled 20 minutes before it was officially cancelled, he simply ignored me and kept working the crowd…I guess he was trying to get the fans on his side before aligations were given that they cancelled because they were insecure about their perfomance. Crystal Castles seems to think that sending one member of the group into the crowd was worth the fee of the ticket and if this is the case the ticket was only worth $15.oo, which is not worth shit. I guess they thought that much of their fans…thinking that we would be bought off by simply gracing us with one members prescence;…maybe even the word losers might have been tossed backstage in the greenroom defining their fans, as they let them wait for fucking two hours. They lost 2 fans that night, even if I define myself a fan, I was barely even interested in their music. Mayber their parents still prepare their food with breast-pumps because they still act like children if they don’t bother to act like professionals in their line of business.
don’t think they’re monsters.
i’m not sure which version of the story is true-but i heard from a very reliable source that they took 6hrs to fix a sound problem and cancelled.
there might be a few things he doesn’t know-but i doubt he’d take the time to write up a fictional story that doesn’t affect me.
cool interview with VEGA i did recently
http://www.helloooooo.com/2009/05/06/flight-of-the-conchords-vega-hangover/