The Ark Change Their Minds and Cancel Tour
Despite the previous report that all was finally well in the Ark camp after a week of "diplomatic entanglements" following lead singer Ola Salo's mindless "joke" about planes flying into the White House during the band's set at the Swedish Embassy's recent location-christening celebration in Washington, D.C. (and now you're up-to-date), the glam rockers have indeed cancelled the rest of their U.S. tour dates.
Citing "exhaustion" as "the main reason" behind the cancellation in a letter on their website, the band promised to reschedule the dates "later this fall or early spring."
The one date they did not cancel is at New York's Bowery Ballroom on November 20. Read the full text of the letter below.
"Oct 29th 2006
The events of last week really took their toll on the band and right now we're all just too exhausted to go on with the tour as we had hoped to. This is the main reason for us canceling this weeks shows in the States.
To all of you who we were looking forward to meet, many for the first time, and to everybody who'd put so much work into making these shows possible, we're really sorry!
We're going to come back for the Bowery Ballroom show on the 20th and hope to reschedule the rest of the tour for later this fall or early spring.
Thanks for your understanding and hope to see you soon.
The Ark"
Cancelled dates:
10-31 Seattle, WA - Crocodile
11-01 Portland, OR - Dante's
11-03 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
11-04 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
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