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Post by lazypokerblues on Dec 14, 2015 16:58:46 GMT
Rhino's tour in February has been cancelled:
February 2016 - Tour Dates - Cancellation
We are very disappointed to announce that Rhino's UK tour in February, 2016, has been cancelled due to its promoter, Aidan Johnson, informing us that 'I am forced to pull out of the tour as I cannot risk making a loss.'
Refunds for all ten shows can be obtained from the point of purchase. If bought directly from Aidan Johnson Limited, contact information is as follows: e-mail: aidan@aidanjohnson.co.uk mobile: 07702678285
Rhino's three European dates, arranged with other promoters in Germany, Holland and France, will go ahead as planned in February, 2016. New UK dates are a possibility during March, 2016, so watch this space, please.
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Post by lazypokerblues on Dec 15, 2015 8:31:19 GMT
Aidan's response: "There were 5 local radio stations who I either had radio interviews planned for or they were interested in booking an interview for Rhino during the Quo tour when he would be in the respective city during the Quo tour. This seemed like a very logical idea as it would mean that we wouldn’t have to do phone interviews that are usually poor quality and listeners don’t usually pay much attention to them.
When I first pitched this idea to Mike, he said “definitely”. However a week later after I had spoken to 5 local radio stations of cities that Rhino would be touring in February and with Quo in November/December, Mike said “It’s not appropriate for Rhino to discuss his solo project in Quo time and while he’s on the road with the band. All interview requests would have to be arranged via Quo’s PA, Lyane, and I know how quickly petty resentments can arise on tour and with any band. It’s not worth going there, from anyone’s perspective.”
Of course this being due to Mike’s on-going feud with Simon Porter. Which is also the same reason that I haven’t had any support from Quo’s official online media platforms for the tour.
So with Quo starting rehearsals on the 16th December and touring right through to last night, that was a valuable block of time where Rhino would be unavailable for any sort of promo activities for the Rhino’s Revenge tour. And now that Rhino is on his Xmas holiday, I wouldn’t have been able to start any serious promo for the tour until mid-January, by which time there would only be just a few weeks to go before the tour commences.
I’ve experience financial loss from events before and I didn’t want a repeat of previous events to occur with this tour therefore I wanted to break even before Christmas. And because of not being able to arrange promo activities during the Quo tour and not having support from the official Quo channels, I’ve not been able to achieve that.
I would be stupid to go ahead with a tour and rely on selling hundreds of tickets in the few weeks running up to the tour. Of course nothing’s saying that if we did all of the promo during mid-late January that we wouldn’t sell the tickets. But that would be an absurd risk to take. Especially on the basis that the majority of the gigs on Rhino’s previous tour had turnouts of less than 100 and two of which had a turnout of under 50 people.
The way how Mike announced the cancellation of the tour earlier today was unprofessional and was deliberately expressing his dismay in my decision to cancel the tour.
If you purchased tickets from aidan-johnson.com then there is no need to contact me. Refunds will be made automatically in the next week.
If you purchased tickets from other venues or other box offices then please contact them."
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Mikey from Charlton
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Post by Mikey from Charlton on Dec 17, 2015 18:15:53 GMT
When are refunds being sent Aidan ?
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Post by rockinon on Dec 17, 2015 21:14:02 GMT
All a bit of a shame really, its not a bad wee gig with folk trying their best. Promotion of course is the key to it all. A bit strange that the Quo camp wouldn't want to help promote it given that Rhino will still likely have some musical aspirations when Francis and Rick finally decide to enjoy some retirement.
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Post by madtom on Dec 17, 2015 21:33:15 GMT
All a bit of a shame really, its not a bad wee gig with folk trying their best. Promotion of course is the key to it all. A bit strange that the Quo camp wouldn't want to help promote it given that Rhino will still likely have some musical aspirations when Francis and Rick finally decide to enjoy some retirement. I wonder... would the official Quo site have promoted a Rossi solo tour...?
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Post by rockinon on Dec 17, 2015 21:45:24 GMT
All a bit of a shame really, its not a bad wee gig with folk trying their best. Promotion of course is the key to it all. A bit strange that the Quo camp wouldn't want to help promote it given that Rhino will still likely have some musical aspirations when Francis and Rick finally decide to enjoy some retirement. I wonder... would the official Quo site have promoted a Rossi solo tour...? Did they not? I suspect they did. But I suppose if you take it back to "quo is Francis and Rick". Then there is a different slant to it.
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Post by curiousgirl on Dec 17, 2015 21:53:50 GMT
All a bit of a shame really, its not a bad wee gig with folk trying their best. Promotion of course is the key to it all. A bit strange that the Quo camp wouldn't want to help promote it given that Rhino will still likely have some musical aspirations when Francis and Rick finally decide to enjoy some retirement. I wonder... would the official Quo site have promoted a Rossi solo tour...? I'm trying to remember where I first heard about it. I think it was on the official mb. And that's how I heard about the St Luke's gig. Francis did have his own website too. Not sure, in answer to you.
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Post by rockonquo on Dec 17, 2015 22:01:48 GMT
I wonder... would the official Quo site have promoted a Rossi solo tour...? I'm trying to remember where I first heard about it. I think it was on the official mb. And that's how I heard about the St Luke's gig. Francis did have his own website too. Not sure, in answer to you. It was advertised on the official sq website, had a link to Rossi's website too. The dvd was advertised on the Quo website too when it came out.
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Post by rockinon on Dec 17, 2015 22:08:20 GMT
I'm trying to remember where I first heard about it. I think it was on the official mb. And that's how I heard about the St Luke's gig. Francis did have his own website too. Not sure, in answer to you. It was advertised on the official sq website, had a link to Rossi's website too. The dvd was advertised on the Quo website too when it came out. So why not Rhino's wee show then? Sounds a bit shitty to me and I can imaging that young lad that does the promoting being somewhat frustrated by that.
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Post by rockonquo on Dec 17, 2015 22:12:02 GMT
It was advertised on the official sq website, had a link to Rossi's website too. The dvd was advertised on the Quo website too when it came out. So why not Rhino's wee show then? Sounds a bit shitty to me and I can imaging that young lad that does the promoting being somewhat frustrated by that. I agree, the album is very good. I don't think they advertised the first one either on the web, they did on the FTMO magazine.
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Post by madtom on Dec 17, 2015 22:12:36 GMT
I wonder... would the official Quo site have promoted a Rossi solo tour...? Did they not? I suspect they did. But I suppose if you take it back to "quo is Francis and Rick". Then there is a different slant to it. It was a rhetorical question, I suspect they did promote Francis too, as CG and Rockonquo have now confirmed. As you say, Quo is "Francis and Rick". And probably more Francis than Rick IMO, with Rhino etc. effectively hired hands, irrespective of shareholdings in Acklode.
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Post by rockinon on Dec 17, 2015 22:21:52 GMT
Did they not? I suspect they did. But I suppose if you take it back to "quo is Francis and Rick". Then there is a different slant to it. It was a rhetorical question, I suspect they did promote Francis too, as CG and Rockonquo have now confirmed. As you say, Quo is "Francis and Rick". And probably more Francis than Rick IMO, with Rhino etc. effectively hired hands, irrespective of shareholdings in Acklode. The point I am trying to make is, why would they not want to help Rhino promote his show? Why would they not want to help him to try and develop something that he could possibly continue with once Quo call it a day?
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Post by kursaal75 on Dec 17, 2015 22:27:37 GMT
I was looking forward to seeing Rhino's band, as Eddie & the Hotrods were supporting the London gig.
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Post by rockinon on Dec 17, 2015 22:32:28 GMT
I was looking forward to seeing Eddie & the Hotrods supporting Rhino's band at the London gig. That is how your post reads to me and I am sure others
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Post by rockonquo on Dec 17, 2015 22:32:35 GMT
It was a rhetorical question, I suspect they did promote Francis too, as CG and Rockonquo have now confirmed. As you say, Quo is "Francis and Rick". And probably more Francis than Rick IMO, with Rhino etc. effectively hired hands, irrespective of shareholdings in Acklode. The point I am trying to make is, why would they not want to help Rhino promote his show? Why would they not want to help him to try and develop something that he could possibly continue with once Quo call it a day? Especially now the gig's have been cancelled. Which reminds me that there was talk they were gonna film one of the gigs for dvd.
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