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How to fake a tour and get caught!

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LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
edited November 2018 in Off Topic
This made me laugh.. "big" LA band come on European tour, faked ticket sales, plays to empty rooms and pisses off venues... 
Enjoy: 
http://www.metalsucks.net/2018/11/09/l-a-band-threatin-faked-a-fanbase-to-land-a-european-tour-no-one-attended/

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  • That’s hilarious and would make a great film.
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  • fandangofandango Frets: 2204
    That’s hilarious and would make a great film.
    Maybe that’s exactly what he’s doing, a la Spinal.


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  • LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
    fandango said:
    That’s hilarious and would make a great film.
    Maybe that’s exactly what he’s doing, a la Spinal.


    Some of the gig footage is hilarious.. ''only managed a few seconds of footage as crowd was totally wild!' 
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  • BRISTOL86BRISTOL86 Frets: 1920
    You sure it’s not Cretin?
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  • MattBansheeMattBanshee Frets: 1498
    edited November 2018
    I know the London promoter who was asked by the "tour manager" to book The Underworld for him. They tried to cancel when they realised it was a scam, he outright told them he'd sold 290 tickets, but literally 3 people turned up - the support act's WAGs. He paid the venue fees in full, but is very clearly a guy with severe mental issues. The promoter in question said that the only reason she didn't have him torn apart is because he was very, very clearly a few bricks short of a Lego set.

    Either that or this is a Borat-esque satire TV show in the making.
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  • jonnyburgojonnyburgo Frets: 12253
    All part of a bigger plan, I think this guy did it for the notoriety with a movie and book in mind. He’ll be on Jimmy Kimmell in a few days
    "OUR TOSSPOT"
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  • KilgoreKilgore Frets: 8599
    They're actually quite good. They do a great cover of Is There Anybody Out There.
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    Their music is shit too:




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  • More delusional than Anvil. 
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  • @octatonic no worse than the crap other people listen to

    the video of him playing is the same as the video in the "interview"
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • fandangofandango Frets: 2204
    Give the feller his credit, he's managed to find the funding to write, and release an album, make some videos, bribe folk to like him, and get himself a two-week European Tour.

    He might have a screw loose, and he might be a contrived poseur, but if someone can sound that amateur yet generate such media attention (FFS we're talking about him????), then it gives the rest of us some hope.

    Now if we can cobble some footage from Outlane and tack the studio recordings from Sasquatch together, surely we have an album, some promo material, some fans (how many Fretboarders are there - 20,000+?), and the basis for touring the USA?? We could call ourselves The Legionnaires or something. And then we could make a movie out of it ... 
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  • LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
    Tbf, I imagine he's gotten so much exposure from this.. true it's mostly as a laughing stock but I imagine more than a few people might like his music and what not.. 
    On the other hand he'll never be able to play again as he's been blacklisted from just about every venue..
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  • mbembe Frets: 1840
    octatonic said:
    Their music is shit too:




    Cripes! That is a whole new level of shit.
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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4896
    There's no such thing as bad publicity...
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  • Jimbro66Jimbro66 Frets: 2418
    edited November 2018
    It reminds me of one of those old black and white British TV comedy shows where the same guy makes up the whole orchestra D  This guy's made himself a laughing stock.
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  • Ahh, pop music history is full of stupid stunts. The music is okay, maybe not my thing but it’s perfectly competent. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • Ahh, pop music history is full of stupid stunts. The music is okay, maybe not my thing but it’s perfectly competent. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24208
    Well, out the four remaining gigs on that poster, only one, Le Klub in Paris has pulled the gig from their website.  The others still have it listed.  I've just emailed the three venues with a link to the OP's article.
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    mbe said:
    octatonic said:
    Their music is shit too:




    Cripes! That is a whole new level of shit.
    Disappointing 'Comments are disabled for this video.'.
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  • came across this guy a while ago for some reason, even then it looked entirely faked - no live reviews, comments on YT etc obviously made up, likes purchased etc. The music isn't entirely dreadful, and he's decent enough on his instruments, but it's obviously a home-recording/small studio job. Weirdest bit for me is why he's actually spent about £30k of his own money funding a tour which nobody will attend! It's either marketing genius as now he's been rumbled loads of people do actually want to go, or there's something a bit wrong with him.
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