(photo by Dan O’Brien)
Sitting back in rainy confines of the Windy City, I’ve learned that apparently Champaign-Urbana is without power, and that I can blog-crastinate my journalism paper due tomorrow because, hey, maybe I’ll get a vicarious extension due to the rumoured weather. Another thing I learned, through The217′s twitter, is that T.I.’s show tonight at Assembly Hall was canceled due to the power outages.
I don’t know if anyone else has been filing the past two years of Assembly Hall shows away in their mind — that’s probably where you retain the answers to your midterms and finals, and why I never seem to succeed with flashcards — but isn’t it odd that Assembly Hall shows continuously get canceled?
We blogged about this trend a year ago, when Jordin Sparks and Flo Rida canceled their April 2008 show, becoming the fourth in a chain of shows biting the dust, ranging from John Mellencamp and The Fray’s two canceled dates to T.I. himself, who postponed a show with T-Pain about a year and a half ago. That show was eventually rescheduled with Soulja Boy (ew), but now this 2009 show of his is slated to be rescheduled yet again.
Sure, a handful of shows over a couple years isn’t that many, but considering the frequency — The venue typically only has around ten big concerts a year — the amount of shows that don’t ever come to fruition under that mushroom cap are large.
And, it’s not as if Assembly Hall is to blame — it’s typically the artists’ choice, and even with tonight’s show, weather is an extenuating circumstance and not the fault of the venue. But, with 5 cancellations over the past two years, the odds that a performance will bite the dust has gotten spoooooooky.
That’s cause they book shitty shows. They should have gotten Phish to come back and play this summer. No need to cancel a show like that.
It’s called Karma! This hasn’t been covered but a couple of years ago, Assembly hall became the first CU venue to use goddamn Ticketmaster. Serves them right!