Sum41 cancels Durban show - 2 hours after they were meant to take the stage

doc-phil · 2011-08-06T08:02:24+00:00

So it started raining a bit at Gateway last night during Fire Through The Window's set, granted the stage was poorly constructed and there was quite a lot of water going on to the stage... so much so that they 'lost power'. So they stopped playing mid-song. 15 minutes later is stops raining. 2 hours later everyone is still waiting in front of the stage wondering what's going on. It was dry as a bone around there and the wind (which was not too bad to start with) had died down almost completely. There was no MC or anybody on stage letting people know what was going on. At about 11:45 (Sum41 were meant to play at 10) a guy takes the stage and says, "How are you Durban??? Are we all having a good night? Well... due to the weather Sum 41 is not gonna be playing!" >☹ I could tell from the budget ticket (just a piece of paper printed on a normal A4 piece of paper) that this show was going to be badly organised. There was no pass-out system, so once you were in you couldn't go out. So... poor organisation + pretentious primadonna band = no show.

Danny-B

MikeM wrote Perhaps I am too much of a fan (Haven't been for probably 5 years) to give fair comment, but it was one of the best nights of my life, let alone the best show. Was just fantastic. Sound was great in all but one song - where there was too much going on in the treble. Great players, super exciting stage presence. Good selection of songs too. Was so surreal, AND it sounded better live than it did on the albums. So I am one happy chappy.

This just makes me more sad that they didn't play on Friday...

giggsy

Now Mike's made me regret not going to Oppi... thanks >☹

Jacquesg4j

You should regret not going to Oppi doesn't matter who was playing! Every year is just the same old awesomeness!

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