The Faceless have dropped off another tour last minute. It happened last year, and now it happens again with the Australian tour with The Black Dahlia Murder. The promoter slams the band, and justifies the cancellation with the "incompetency by the band and their management". However, the band has also released a statement, explaining their side of the story. Drama ensues.

The promoter Soundworks Touring released this statement: "Due to complete incompetency by the band and their management, and with a total lack of respect for Soundworks Touring, and more importantly their fans, The Faceless have this morning officially cancelled their entire Australian and New Zealand tour. Over the past week we have been continuously lied to, misled and left in the dark as to the whereabouts of the band since their first scheduled appearance on May 9th. We at Soundworks Touring have done everything in our power to bring the band here for these shows, but The Faceless have been completely unprofessional in their behaviour and this cancellation is 100% solely their doing. To any disgruntled fans who wish to voice their opinion on this matter, we at Soundworks Touring are more than willing to put you in direct contact with the band and their management so they can address your questions. In the meantime feel free to express yourself on the band's official facebook page. We apologise to fans for the cancellation and wholeheartedly share your disappointment, but as mentioned previously, this has been 100% out of our control. The rest of the tour package will continue as is and we hope you still enjoy the amazing show The Black Dahlia Murder, Putrid Pile, Whoretopsy and Unravel are displaying. Yours in all sincerity, Brad and Dysie, Soundworks Touring."

Michael Keene explained: "Since Soundworks has decided to throw not only The Faceless, but our manager under the bus, let's talk a bit about what really happened and why we're not in Australia right now. Just days before we were to leave to our first date in Jakarta, Indonesia, I found out that all of our equipment had been stolen. This alone was a blow devastating enough to have to cancel, but we spent all the money we had on buying new equipment and putting our live rig back together so we could play these shows. Everyone got into town with 2 days to rehearse because that's when all the gear we needed had arrived and I could start assembling it. As soon as we set up, we realized that there were MASSIVE issues with the system and unfortunately because of the nature of our music, we can't exactly just 'wing it' on any old gear and make it work. We have saxophone solos and orchestral arrangements for Christ's sake. Not to mention over 15 different guitar tones used in the set and we are currently touring without a bass player while he finishes his last semester of music school. We're not a band that can hop on some Marshalls and make it work. It's a lot more dynamic and involved than that."

"At this point, we knew we were going to miss Jakarta, but I went to 3 specialists to get our system repaired and our rig running. Everything seemed to be fixed, so we boarded a flight to Perth and we were on our way to the first date in Australia after an unfortunate hiccup, but on our way nonetheless. After boarding the plane, we sat on the tarmac for over 5 hours before being told our flight was canceled due to a mechanical error and we'd be put on a flight the following night. At this point, Soundworks is now furious over something that we had literally absolutely no control over. The next day, we get to the airport and try to explain to them that we no longer needed to be in Perth and rather needed to be in Adelaide since we'd now missed the Perth show, so they tried to work with us, but the only connecting flight they had for us, put us into Adelaide so late that we would have missed the Adelaide show as well."

Another excerpt: "Brad from soundworks also accused us of lying to him and claimed that we were missing flights out of irresponsibility rather than the sequence of events I've outlined here, like flight cancellations (which I'd be more than happy to obtain proof from Qantas airlines that the events occurred the way I am saying they did), lost gear and technical problems in our system.
At this point, after hearing the things he said, the personal attacks and accusations he was making and the way he was treating us and EJ, I was having a hard time even getting the rest of the band members to agree to do shows for a person who would utterly disrespect us and our manager to such a degree. However, we were ready and willing to buy new tickets and make it to the next show, but Soundworks closed the door on that opportunity and essentially kicked us off the tour. Let me just reiterate that we would be in Australia right now playing shows for you if it weren't for Brad Wesson's unprofessionalism and ultimately not only removing us from the remaining shows for things completely beyond our control, but also sabotaging our New Zealand dates which he had some hand in setting up, but is not the promoter of. I am still trying to contact the New Zealand promoter directly because we'd like to fulfill our agreement to perform on our New Zealand dates. Last night I had also gone as far as to try to find a bar that would have us for a free afterparty show in Melbourne after the TBDM show just to prove to our fans that we were not only ready and willing to fulfill the remaining dates, but that we will go as far as to buy 4 more tickets to Australia and play for free for you if Soundworks wants to be this childish and disrespect us like this."

The band's lengthy full statement can be read on their Facebook page.

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	The Faceless