Posted on 08/05/2006 5:51:30 AM PDT by NautiNurse
It was announced late today that the Dixie Chicks's Oct. 5 concert at the St. Pete Times Forum in has been cancelled. Ticket holders were advised to contact their original point of purchase for refunds and information on alternate area concerts.
The Dixie Chicks camp is reporting that the tour was rerouted "to allow the group some promotion time in September around the debut of the documentary film 'Dixie Chicks' Shut Up and Sing.'"
The Dixie Chicks released the following statement: "This is a year where we weren't sure what to expect. We were prepared for a lot of things as we figure out this new phase of our career. What we weren't prepared for, however, was the overly passionate audience response at all of the stops on the tour so far. We are truly at a loss for words to explain what that has meant to us. We hope that our fans who were looking forward to a stop that is no longer on the tour will be able to join us at a nearby arena this fall, and we are sorry for any confusion or inconvenience these changes have caused."
The Dixie Chicks have been mostly blacklisted from country radio ever since singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush, despite the fact that the group's album "Taking The Long Way" is one of the biggest sellers in country music this year. The Miami Herald reports that "ticket sales in Red States have been sluggish throughout the tour."
Do music recording contracts typically contain clauses for outrageous behavior that sabotages revenue?
I'm sure it's an out for contracts much like endorsement deals
It was right above my table. Didn't kill my appetite, but I was surprised it had not been defaced - yet.
I always wished I had defaced that big one on Division when it was there.
I almost bought a paintball gun just for that.
World Premiere Of Barbara Kopple’s And Cecilia Peck’s Dixie Chicks – Shut Up And Sing A Gala Presentation
Toronto - DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING, a powerful documentary from two-time Academy Award®-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY USA, AMERICAN DREAM) and director Cecilia Peck receives its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival. With unprecedented access to the behind-closed-doors world of celebrities in the ventre of a political and pop culture storm, DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING provides a view of the real and raw emotional rollercoaster of three strong women thrust into the turbulent centre of a national debate. This is the first time in 14 years that the Festival has featured a documentary as a Gala Presentation.
On stage at a 2003 London concert, Natalie Maines, lead singer of Texan trio the Dixie Chicks, spoke these 15 words to a small audience at the start of their sold-out international tour: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The comment was delivered on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, and drew cheers from the decidedly anti-war and anti-Bush British crowd.
It was an off-the-cuff remark typical of the lead singer's temperament. Natalie, and fellow Dixie Chicks Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, thought little of it. But history and this film demonstrate that at this heightened moment of political polarization in the United States, many people did care, and empowered this simple, yet loaded remark to carry serious and longstanding ramifications.
DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING travels with the Chicks, from their peak of popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment, and on through the days, months and years of mayhem. The film follows the lives and careers of the Chicks through the writing and recording of their first album since "the incident" - and three years of political attack, making music, birthing babies, bonding, death threats, and laughter. At the end, the film presents a complete reconsideration of who people think they are, who they want to be and who, ultimately, they really are as women, as public figures, and as musicians.
Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple and Cecila Peck, DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING is a presentation of Cabin Creek Films.
Thanks for the info. Didn't find this via Google yesterday.
The buzz is pretty good about "The Killers" new release, titled "Sam's Town" due out Oct. 3. Should overtake them.
Its not that hard to be one of the biggest sellers of the year when there have been virtually no major artist releases from that genre in that year. h e l l o ...is anyone home? :D
Now tell how they stack up against the artists in their *new* genre, seeing as they keep telling everyone they are no longer country, but continue comaparing themselves to those who still claim they are.
The double speak from their camp can be quite confusing @ times. Me thinks they intend it to be that way, knowing full well the majority of their fans lack the mental capacity to figure it all out!
Just announced this weekend that the concert in Fargo, ND is cancelled. Probably not "their kind" of fans anyway.
They made the Biggest Losers Blog! :D
The Dixie Chicks: Their latest album, "Taking the Long Way," is projected to sell only one-third as many copies as the two the group released before lead singer Natalie Maines' inflammatory 2003 anti-Bush comments at a concert in England. And, they've had to cancel 2006 summer tour dates in Red State locales like Memphis, Oklahoma City and Indianapolis due to poor ticket sales. So really, the last thing Maines and co. need is to remind the iTunes crowd how it all went down. But that's just the ticket, as this week the Toronto International Film Festival announced that it will give the gala premiere treatment to the documentary "Shut Up and Sing," co-directed by Oscar winning Barbara Koepple. If all else fails, these lovely ladies can always take a page from the Garth Brooks play book and re-invent themselves as an Australian folk trio.
http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/28/this-weeks-biggest-losers-07-28-06/
Nah, the country folks have figured them out - it's why no one is going to their concerts. And the liberals - who really "lack the mental capacity" to figure it all out have their noses so high in the air they miss the obvious. And the chicks? If they were capable of double speak subtlety they wouldn't be in the fix they're in... It's easy and obvious -- the Chicks are losers, fans have figured them out, and liberals stay delusional in thinking they're superior -- it's a clear win -- for us....
Tampa/St.Pete was cancelled too - not their kind of fans here either.
Actually... Note that the article doesn't actually call it "their fans' *support*", they worded it as:
What we weren't prepared for, however, was the overly passionate audience response at all of the stops on the tour so far."Passionate" only means "strongly emotional", it doesn't necessarily mean "enthusiastically supportive". A lynch mob is also an "overly passionate audience response" too, so it's interesting that she would word her statement so ambiguously.
I paid $100.00 for a ticket and traveled three hours to attend a concert in their farewell tour. It was money well spent.
The band was Alabama
Here is why their fans would shell out big bucks to see them
Before we ever made the headlines
Or toured the concert halls
We survived our share of bar rooms
Stared at many motel walls.
The years in Carolina
And all the one night stands
What kept the fires a burnin'
Back then, was you the fans.
We two stepped out to Texas
Round and round the dance hall floors
Played the fair in Minnesota, mm
I wish we could've played one more.
We hope you remember
We're just the boys in the band
And what keeps the fires a burnin'
Is always, you the fans.
(la da da, da da, la da)
I wish this night could last forever
Ah, but the show must go on
And we'll take home the memories
And we'll leave you with our songs.
It's been good to see ya'll
Can we come back again? and again, and again
What keeps the fires a burnin'
In us, is you the fans.
As long as you remember, the boys in the band
We'll keep the fires a burnin'
For all of You
Our fans...
Compare that to "Stupid Bambi killing red neck hicks that buy our music" and you understand why politics was only the smallest part of what brought the DimTwits down.
Thanks much for posting the Alabama lyrics. They get it.
When I say "majority of their fans" I meant "And the liberals - who really "lack the mental capacity"
;)
I wonder how the contracts go for booking venues. I would anticipate it costs a bundle to cancel a concert with less than six months notice. Who is on the hook--the label or d' chix?
In general, Kael had a taste for movies that violate taboos involving sex and violence, a taste that disturbed many of her readers.
pinged a couple of folks who might know the music biz better than me
So how many does this make? A dozen? More?
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