Tonight’s Scale the Summit show, which was originally scheduled for the Southern Nevada Sports Centre and later relocated to the Eagle Hall, has been canceled.
A message from the instrumental rock band from Houston, Texas on their Facebook page states:
“Due to circumstances out of our control, tonight’s show in Las Vegas has been canceled. Ticket refunds available at place of purchase. We hope to make it back soon.”
What are these circumstances? According to the venue’s soundman, the band refused to play due to the Eagle Hall’s lack of stage:
Glass Cloud, who were set to co-headline this show, deny the lack of stage had anything to do with the cancellation. From their Facebook page:
“Just to set the record straight… we played floor shows on our last two tours, one with letlive. and the other with the Chariot. We always love a good floor show! Tonight’s show was cancelled before we even arrived. In fact, we are writing this [while] we are still about an hour away from even arriving in Vegas. There is nothing we hate more than missing shows, but tonight was completely out of our hands. People can talk all they want, but these are the facts.”
Erra, who was also a part of the tour package, released their own statement on Facebook:
“Hey Las Vegas, as you know by now, the show tonight is cancelled.
Just to clear up any frustrations, we didn’t drop because anyone feels ‘too good for playing a floor show.’ That’s just silly. As far as Erra is concerned, if you’ve ever watched us play on a floor and talked to us after the show, then we probably mentioned how much we fucking love floor shows because of the drastic boost in intimacy and energy from being eye level with the crowd. It always sounds like shit obviously, but it’s totally worth it for how crazy the energy gets.
There are a ton of details about the cancellation that we do not know of (seriously, we’re still a wee bit confused).
What I do know is that Glass Cloud and Reflections had some issues this morning and were running super late to get to the show (Reflections would not have even been able to make it for their set if the show had went on), So the venue claiming Glass Cloud walked in, saw the floor setup, shook their heads, and bailed is not true because it’s currently 6:30pm and Glass Cloud has still not even made it to Vegas yet. I did however walk into the venue….to pee…not to gawk at the perpetual audacity of stage monitors sitting on a floor with my nose up and my pinky sticking straight up from my shimmering glass of Barefoot Moscato and my Cuban cigar.
We aren’t the headlining band, we aren’t the promoter, we aren’t one of the agents, we are just one of the support bands. That means that we don’t have final call. We did not get a chance to communicate with anyone from the venue or promoting the show, but from what I was told, the show was moved last minute to a smaller venue (whether that was because of low presale numbers I’m not sure, like I said we didn’t get direct communication), and because of the last minute switch there were certain necessities that weren’t able to be acquired for the show to continue apparently (again, we honestly don’t have the details, I’m not just saying that to blind you from some harsh truth about our bulging egos or to cover my own ass).
We genuinely hate that some of our fans weren’t able to see us tonight. This is the first time we’ve ever had a show drop like this and it’s really lame, but please just rest assured that our band does in fact care and are certainly not being rockstars. We will be back in Vegas sooner than you think though. Super sorry once again you guys, but we shall return.”
From what we’ve been able to ascertain from trusted sources is that Scale the Summit was unhappy with the Eagle Hall’s sound system and made the call to pass on the show, despite knowing of the venue change since July 28th, the fact that the original and new venue share the exact same system and the equipment being more than adequate for the likes of The Story So Far, Being as an Ocean, Man Overboard and Citizen. This was later confirmed in a reply to a fan from Scale the Summit’s Chris Letchford:
“We originally booked the show at an actual venue with a sound system and the promoter moved the show to a place that put us on the floor with no sound system. We could care less it’s on the floor but we travel with a set up that can only work with an actual sound system. We literally can’t make that work. Plus it was a package decision between all bands. We will make it back and use a different promoter.”
The show’s promoter Steven Goldberg later posted his own statement on Facebook clarifying the situation:
“Once again I apologize for tonight being canceled. The headlining band Scale the Summit and support bands were unhappy with venue/stage/sound and took upon themselves to cancel without even informing me first. This whole show has been a nightmare from lack of communication from bands/agents. Anyone who bought tickets online or through me/local band Garbage Tree is entitled and will be refunded. What pisses me off most is how bands will screw over there fans, it fine you guys took my deposit money and refusing to give it back. That’s fine I will take legal action. I hope it worth losing your fans over how unprofessional you are. It’s a sad, canceling a show over the smallest things and then lying to your fans. Sorry once again.”
Left without a show, openers Reflections from Twin Cities, Minnesota, decided to make the best of a bad situation and have set up a last minute house show in Vegas. The band said in a statement released on Facebook:
“For the record we do not care if we play big venues or floor shows. we do not care how big the turnouts are. A show is a show and all we care about is playing some jams for the people who truly enjoy it. We live for that 25 or whatever minutes we get to play for you guys. It makes it all worth it; that moment we can share with you all.”
Details for that show can be found on the following image:
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