• Killer57@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Cancel and refund the tickets, can you imagine the media coverage he’d be getting instead if he had just done that to the affected shows, and then found smaller venues that welcome them?

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Oh no it took the small venue two nights per night to get all the original ticket sales in I bet the artist is heartbroken.

      Said no one, ever

      • bluemite@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I think you’re underestimating how easy it is to cancel and book venues, deal with fans that bought tickets, etc.

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      Look, I’m all for being on the right side, but Ed is the one who spent tens of millions on prepaid semi trucks, stage gear, countless personnel to move and run a huge production to every venue on the tour, experts to design the show. He can’t just “cancel” those things. Money is spent. People are hired. Contracts were signed.

      Robert Kraft is a bad guy here; cut Ed a LITTLE slack for not being in a legal/financial position to cancel like the others are.

      When venues start controlling what artists can perform, the industry is fucked. It’s like demonetizing “controversial” YouTube videos, but IRL in a music venue.

      If I was on my tour and this happened, I wouldn’t know what the hell to do. What he needs to do is hire a crisis manager.