Damn this sucks. Pretty bummed here since the last show I was going to was Cincinnati and it was canceled as well due to Chester being sick. I guess the liability thing is true because I'm sure Chester could perform for one and a half hours at a one-off fly date show in the middle of October....shouldn't be that big of a deal even if he had to sit on a stool during the band's actual performance. DeLuna here really got fucked although no one can really help it, but they're such a small festival and getting LP for them probably cost over a million dollars for that one appearance....they were the biggest band at the entire festival by a good bit and really brought a lot of ticket sales. Refunds for all of the LP fans I'm sure will be in the thousands. REALLY sucks for those people that bought 3 day passes (because that's all they had) because LP was playing, and then a week ago they announced that they were selling one day passes finally, but now they are only giving refunds for ONE day even if you got a 3 day pass and you only were going for LP. WOW.
I wish they would have confirmed at least when they canceled that they'd play it next year but hell that might mean no Atlanta or Tampa show then...I dunno. LP doesn't play in Pensacola for a reason lol. First time in that area in freakin' ages. The US got unfortunately screwed on this touring cycle, with only one tour and now 4 canceled shows. They should at least make them up in the spring or fall or whenever they'll do an "escape from the studio" tour. Instead of Europe/Asia like before, they should do Washington DC, Uncasville, Cincinnati, DeLuna Festival and some other random ones. Bummed now I didn't go to more shows like Boston, NYC or Philly and do MFR. Only saw 3 shows this touring cycle compared to 9 for Minutes To Midnight.
I'm sure Blackout is done as well as some other ATS songs. Really surprised at no Projekt Revolution Tour this summer. Oh well, what can you do. Time to go see some 10 Years shows I guess. Had a huge weekend planned in Pensacola....hope the next time I see them is 2012 and not 2013.