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News : Toxic Holocaust and Iron Reagan cancel their Australian tour

By on July 15, 2014

Well this is disappointing. Both Toxic Holocaust and Iron Reagan have pulled out of their Australian/NZ tour scheduled for November.

After the original tour with Toxic Holocaust and Skeletonwitch in April was post-poned due to illness in one of the bands, the tour was re-scheduled for november with Iron Reagan instead of Skeletonwitch. One (or both) of the bands weren’t happy with something, and Iron Reagan were the first to announce that… last month.

Post by IRON REAGAN.

 

After almost three weeks and no explanation from the promoter, Toxic Holocaust briefly announced their cancellation as well.

Post by Toxic Holocaust.

 

It sucks to see tours go to shit like this. But hopefully it can be revived for early next year with a different promoter, since both bands still want to tour here together.

UPDATE 15/07 @ 10:34PM: Robert MacManus (Heathen Skulls) has issued a press release regarding the Toxic Holocaust and Iron Reagan tour.

PRESS RELEASE:
It’s with a certain level of regret and an equal amount of relief that I must announce the cancellation of the Toxic Holocaust and Iron Reagan Australian and New Zealand tour this November.

The tour was originally scheduled to happen in early this year, but due to an illness that prevented Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust to fly, the tour was re-scheduled, the only time Toxic were available was November, unfortunately Skeletonwitch weren’t available, so they were replaced by Iron Reagan.

Over the last 12 months, since signing onto to this tour, my financial situation has changed dramatically, the touring industry in Australia has become a lot more competitive and over saturated, because of such things, I’ve decided to pull back from touring as the risks involved are just too steep. 
At this point in time due to other pressing commitments, I no longer have the time or the financial resources to meet the demands of touring or to keep Heathen Skulls sustainable.

Rather than canceling the Toxic / Reagan tour, which is something I never wanted to do, I wanted to honor my agreement with both bands, but to do so I’d needed to bring in sponsors and investors, which is what many touring companies do. I was completely up front and honest with Iron Reagan by explaining that I was no loner in a financial position to invest my own money into the tour and presented this idea, it would of not effected the end result for them in regards to their fee, but Iron Reagan were no longer willing to proceed. As a result, when Toxic Holocaust heard about the news, even though they understood my position, there wasn’t much point in continuing the tour, which had already sustained more than it’s fair share of misfortunes.

For the last Month I’ve been talking to various promoters to see if they would be willing to take over the tour so that it could still continue for the original dates, but unfortunately it wasn’t possible to make the tour happen for the scheduled November shows, which is why I haven’t made a press release until now. 
The tour is still on the cards for early next year, but it is now in the hands of another promoter and the bands themselves.

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