Deicide Cancel Remaining South America Tour Dates
November 24, 2008 by Scott
Blabbermouth reported that Diecide had to cancel their remaining South American tour dates after they got shafted by a Honduran airline and shoddy promoters. South/Central American promoters seem to be getting quite the reputation for not coming through on their end of the deals. Glen Benton made the following statement:
“This morning [Sunday, November 23] we went to the airport in Honduras and the fine folks at [the airline] gave our tickets away to other people, and when we tried to change the tickets and make the remaining shows, there were no other flights available to get us to El Salvador, and the promoter expected us to drive across countries, through document and border checks and with no guarantee of safe return. And, because our agent didn’t give us any contact info or contracts for the promoters down there, or answer his phone (we called 100 times with no answer), we were forced to come back to the States, completely because of the way this Central American run was mishandled by the promoter in Central America and the agent. We had no choice but to come back or get stuck there without flights.
So far all you guys that were expecting to see Deicide in South America…well crap! You can read the rest of the statement at Blabbermouth.
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LAME!!! Central America rarely gets any good stuff to see… I was excited I might of been able to go to this show in El Salvador, guess I’ll just hangout and eat pupusas!
Quite right you guys went back as fast as possible! These South American so called promoters are a bunch of amateurs. A lot of blah blah , advertizing bands in advance on their shitty myspace pages (costs nothing) take the ticket pre sales and buy payota so they can sit on their asses for a while. Bunch of losers! Any band , better stay away from these guys who call themselves promoters. Ha!
Glen is talking shit, Honduras-El Salvador flights are made every few hours, since mnany(most)long distance flights from Honduras make stops at El Salvador airport.
And if the airline was by any chance TACA, im sure they would somehow arrange the shitty mess.
Get shit straight Glen, flights between central american countries are like taking a cab. Besides if your tickets were “given away” what tickets were going to be changed?