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Originally Posted by Soccer Mom

Yeah, don't sleep on this one.

FRI.06.20.08 @ the Elysium, Austin TX

LIVE MUSIC
Venetian Snares 12 AM
Otto Von Schirach 11 PM
Cyrus Rex 10 PM

Advance tickets available soon from Secret Oktober

Damn... I'm playing in New York City that night.

I'd like to show up and try to collect on Aaron Funk/Venetian Snares for the plane ticket he didn't use when I had him booked to play a show in Houston, and one up here at Sand Bar.

He called my ass an hour after the plane took of to tell me he was snowed in, but weather.com reported everything sunny in Winnipeg. He never even bothered to contact the Houston promoters who were supposed to meet him at the airport.

Later, he told some folks it was because we (as in the promoters from both cities) never paid a deposit... But the written agreement was for us to purchase his plane ticket only, then pay him X amount when he got here. Other times, he was quoted as saying that the Houston promoters who were supposed to drive him up for his Dallas show "seemed shady."

So no matter what he claims his reasons were for not boarding that plane, he had a contract to play that we had met the demands of, and we had purchased a ticket for him to board a plane come play a show... He didn't, and then tried to smear our faces with shit.

That makes him the turd in my book.

A friend from San Fran (Savak) flew in last minute to play Snares' spot on the bill, and BANKED between getting paid what Funk would have been paid PLUS selling a metric asston of merch. It added up to several hundred AFTER the expense of buying his own last minute ticket here.

I feel sorry for the kids that had driven out from Atlanta to see his show, though. We put out announcements as soon as we knew what was going on, but the Atlanta kids had already left for Dallas by the time we discovered Funk was not coming.