Disney bans machinehead from performing at the HOB 48 hours before they were scheduled to perform. All I can say is wow.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the link to Machinehead's official response.

 

 

 

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/de ... wsid=28732

 

 

 

"In a stunning last-minute move, Walt Disney Properties have pressured promoter Live Nation into canceling Machine Head's performance tomorrow night at the House of Blues venue in Anaheim (on their Disneyland property). Citing violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics as the reason, the diversity-impaired corporation began pressuring the promoter on Saturday to cancel all upcoming heavy metal concerts, placing Machine Head under an internal "review process" that took 5 days before bothering to convey their alarming decision to the band late yesterday - less than 48 hours before their Black Tyranny Tour was to kick off at House of Blues Anaheim on Friday night.

 

 

 

While the enactment of this new blanket rule applies to all upcoming heavy metal shows at the House Of Blues Anaheim (with some metal bands having been banned from performing on name alone), Machine Head is the first band to actually have tickets go on sale, and remain on sale for 2 months, before intense pressure and vague threats of liability from the Corporation left the promoter with no choice but to remove the show from the venue.

 

 

 

As a result, Live Nation's Paul McGuigan did the honorable thing and incredibly, on one days notice, managed to salvage the tour's opening night by moving the first date of The Black Tyranny tour (featuring Machine Head, Arch Enemy, Throwdown, and Sanctity) to The Glass House in Pomona, CA (located at 200 W. Second Street). All existing tickets will be redeemable for entry at The Glass House, and all Will Call pickups will now be available for pickup at the new venue. Any fans unable to make the 70-mile trip to The Glass House as a result of this ridiculous turn of events will be able to have their money refunded in full. Strangely, all other Black Tyranny dates at House Of Blues venues on Disney property will remain unaffected

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your thoughts?

Well it is Disney and they do use explicit language,so I'm not that surprised.

It's Disney. They feel the need to get back at someone after whats-her-name posted porn of herself on the web.

That's ridiculous. Music shouldn't get banned at any place. No matter how bad the message it spreads is.

fair enough, there will be a lot of little kids walking about, you wouldn't want your child to hear offensive lyrics and see dirty goths wandering all around the place.

That's ridiculous. Music shouldn't get banned at any place. No matter how bad the message it spreads is.

 

 

 

Phyi, that's nothing new that songs/bands get banned...

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impaled_Nazarene <- albums banned in multiple European countries+not allowed to perform live shows at least in Greece.

 

 

 

The list goes on. Music has been banned, will be banned and will be listened even if it's banned. Probably I should use my Impaled Nazarene T-shirt tomorrow at school... O:)

Why in the world did they book them in the first place? To me, it sounds like someone was complaining about it for some reason and they made a knee-jerk reaction and cancelled em.

Well thats just simply moronic.

 

 

 

Disney needs to lose some of its kid-friendly image, get their heads out their [wagon] and see whats realy happening in the world.

Well thats just simply moronic.

 

 

 

Disney needs to lose some of its kid-friendly image, get their heads out their [wagon] and see whats realy happening in the world.

 

 

 

When I was a kid, Disney movies had this kind of aura around them that completely took me away to another world. That world didn't involve motorhead and dirty BO-Ridden metallers, and thus, I don't think they do need to lose some of their image.

 

On the contrary, disney really should have looked into just who were playing the house of blues before they hired and fired them.

fair enough, there will be a lot of little kids walking about, you wouldn't want your child to hear offensive lyrics and see dirty goths wandering all around the place.

 

 

 

Dirth goths? This is machinehead, not dimmu borgir, heh.