omg..... 2 sleeps

Is there anyone from perth here?........... and if so are you going to the gig?

Yep i'm definately going!

Going with my friends Shah and Nel, they'll have vines shirts but unfortunately between Blackjack last eyar and now my shirt has dissapeared lol so heres hoping the merch stand is tip-top

cant wait to see the silents aswell yesssss

yeah The Silents should be good.... I'm also looking forward to seeing Harlequin League as well

I was going to wear my shirt with a pic of Craig smoking on it but I've decided to wear a shirt with "I Love Music" written on it and iron on patches that I put on it

Yeah the craig smoking shirt! thats the one i lost

i'll probs be wearing a dandy warhols shirt i made with some iron ons, and i had a hack at the collar with some scissors ahha so wen you see the raggedy dandys fan that'll probably be me

cool! I've hacked at my shirt too..........its got iron ons of Muse, The Beatles, Nirvana, AC/DC, The Cure and some other stuff

can't believe its tomorrow night.. I've been counting down for so long that it seems so surreal now

yeah i've been sick so waiting for the gig has been like the shining light at the end of the tunnel keeping me going haha

i cant wait to see how packed it is, have you ever been to the rosemount before, i havnt. is it any good there?

heres hoping they play dope train

yeah its good...I've been there for lunch a couple times a few weeks ago.... to suss out the layout

lol suss out, nice one

i live a couple of hours south of perth so thats not realy an option for me hha

and my plans to hunt down the schematics for the joint online have been dismally executed at best

yeah theres not much online..... the layout is easy enough though.... the carpark is behind it and we line up there

it's been cancelled.......... due to illness
the silents and harlequin league are still playing though

i just was looking at the vines facebook page earlier by chance and saw someone had commented saying it had been cancelled
that really sucks, hopefully they can reschedule sometime soon
anyone know who it is who's unwell?

well. Tickets since the day they went on sale. 2 hours travel to perth. 40 minutes walk to the venue. And a handwritten sign on the door of the hotel saying 'the vines have cancelled tonights show'. Now on the way home. After another 40 minute walk. With 2 severely tickd off friends. This is the worst, most dissapointing thing ever. Fuck

Thats fuckin aweful!!!! i feel weel bad for u.
Was there no email sent out or anything to say The Vines had cancelled the show? Anyone know why?

I would complain to the ticket seller if I was u, and try and get your travel expensis back!

Well theres no sign of a press release or anything on thevines.com. On heatseeker.com.au where the tickets were being sold theres a tiny article saying pretty much what the handwritten sign at the venue said. And i havn't recieved an email.

What a joke. Not impressed

I heard from the security that one of the guys had a fit in adelaide, I was talking to Harlequin League and they said it was Craig

oh no!!!! that fuckin sucks!!!!!!

a fit? i hope everything's alright.
has anyone heard anything else about what happened?

I hope they release a statement later this week even if its to let us know Craig is ok

Poor Craig, I hope hes ok. They rarely cancel gigs these days, so it must be something serious.

I'm sorry for all the Perth fans who missed out on this

I'm staying positive....... I have the Big Day Out to see them.... and they will do other gigs here
I just hope he's ok

a lot of people were really angry and some were dissing The Vines like it was their fault...... so as usual I was defending them

I must say, i was pretty angry when I realised it was cancelled. It was just such a blow after looking forward to it for so long. I was in no mood for defending the band, i felt betrayed. And I know they're playing Big Day Out but its still bullshit, Perth hasn't has a headline gig in so long, festival slots arent the same.

But yeah if someone had a fit thats really serious, i hope they're ok. As long as they didnt cancel the gig because Ryan shot himself in the foot with a tranquilizer dart or something. Lol

yeah I understand... I've had tickets since the pre sales and I had put all my energy into their gig so it was a massive blow

The guard wouldn't say who but I found out from one of the bands that it was Craig... which I had figured anyway

I was talking to Justin from End Of Fashion today and he said Craig had a temper tantrum on the flight over............. so I'm confuzzled not sure what actually happened..... if he had a tantrum it would be aspergers related

End of fashion? Well, there's a random source of Vines info...were they supporting?

Bit weird that it would happen after a week off, and not after a four date leg like last week, though.

Very dissappointed aswell they cancelled. Had Tix booked the 1st day they came out, travelled 1600km by plane just to see these guys, $40 cab fare there. . . Only to show up to see a sign saying they cancelled. Majourly bummed out .

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Well, maybe it wasn't related to the tour, perhaps he's had personal trouble, who knows. Anyway, I hope he's alright and that all of you that travelled to the show get a refund or that they do Perth again.

Also, where are you, Internet Guy? Seriously, the organisers/management could've at least sent an email around. Or a mail pigeon, if that's more up their street.

Yeah, that's what I mean. We can't really speculate about what's going on. I'm glad Eva's not around

I'm sorry for everyone that had to find out once they got there, too. It's too bad you couldn't have known before hand. Hopefully you'll get an explanation soon, as I'm sure management know we're all worried.

no they weren't supporting.... Justin did a solo acoustic set today at the rosemount........ dunno how he got info

to be honest I was a bit worried about the 4 dates in a row but thought they did that ok and had a week off so Craig would be fine

Yeah, they seemed to cope pretty well through that. In fact they all seemed really happy even by the sunday, so I don't know.

I'm confuzzled coz I got 2 different stories......... so I've given up on trying to work it..... I just hope Craig is ok

reading this discussion in the adelaide gig thread...... Justin's (End Of Fashion) explanation seems more probable

I'm just worried how Craig is going recover and cope since that they've got 2 asian dates in a couple of weeks and then not long after that its homebake (at least thats in Sydney) and then its the Big Day Out tour....

Craig doesnt like flying. I remember reading an interview with Hamish saying trying to get Craig to fly is quite traumatic.
Poor guy tho, flying can be stressful to people.

Still really poor show the organisers not to have tried to let people know it was cancelled before the people showed up for the gig!

On myspace, there is a comment that says there was a problem boarding a plane and that Craig was coughing. There seems to be alot of speculation right now.

Did any radio stations announce that the show was cancelled?

Its Monday morning in Sydney so maybe we will hear something soon.

there is an apology and explanation on their website now

here's what it says

"IMPORTANT INFO FOR FANS re: PERTH CANCELLED SHOW

For everyone in Perth who had to suffer the disappointment of Saturday night’s Rosemount show being cancelled, we sincerely apologise, and also apologise for the extremely late notice regarding the cancellation. The band are genuinely gutted that the show didn’t happen and feel terrible that they have disappointed their WA fans. Unfortunately Craig was not able to fly from Adelaide to Perth due to a serious recurrence of his flight related anxiety. For those of you familiar with his condition and history, we hope you will understand that continuing the flight was not an option.

We hope to make it up to you all in the future, and if you haven’t already been informed, of course your ticket can be refunded from point of purchase."

This really really shat me .. I bought tickets of ebay cause I always leave things to the last minute, and forgot to buy the tickets when they first came out. So I paid double the price, which is my fault.

Anyways .. I went round to a mates place and we all were having a few drinks, playing the album, getting amped .. then we get a taxi there to see a sign saying it was canceled.

I had a cry to one of the bouncers and asked what I could take my frustration out on, and he said the hedge, so I jumped into that numerous times and left. There was a party on that night that we were going to miss out on because of the concert, so we went there instead, which was near my g/fs place so she came out and the night turned out to be pretty good. Still, would have been far better if I had seen the vines. I saw them at bdo and afterwards I was drenched with sweat, it was great .. I wanted the same that night.

Mann there were some people there I had a quick chat to, who came all the way from bunbury! My other mates had a dig at the vines since they aren't as big of fans as I am, and frankly I was too pissed off to defend them .. even though one of them could have been shot, I still felt jewed to rock up and see a bit of paper with 'the vines canceled' ..

The amount of times I told people that the vines was going to be sick and I couldn't wait cause they were awesome live, to have them canceled .. I feel like a retard.

Anyways enough of me being emo .. hopefully by the time bdo comes round I won't be cut at them.

It's understandable that you guys were angry but it's not the band's fault. Unexpected sickness happens - it's just that someone should've been online to send around the notice that it was cancelled. At the same time, I don't blame you guys for being angry, especially the ones who travelled.

The Adelaide show was amazing. Dont mean to rub it in! Got to meet all the lads after the show and they all seemed great. Went to the Ed as well where they were and Crag seemed in a great mood, just floating around enjoying himself.

I did seem him skitz out at a girl in the Gov after the show, but it was nothing to bad, just yelled some abuse and threw a chair ( not at anyone ).

He came up to me and said I had a cool shirt! So was pretty stoked with that! Was wearing a Kasabian one. Seems he is a fan as well!

Aww, I just read about Craig

Like that retarded kitty in the tree - hang in there, bb.

haha yeah, in that little tv ad where he's sitting in the room listening to music he was listening to Kasabian He's got some good taste.

I wonder what the girl did

Yeah very unlucky guys I feel your pain.

I think she said something to him along the lines off you think your better than everyone and Craig said something back then this birds boyfriend piped up and it just went from there. Was nothing to bad though, Craig went backstage after it and calmed down and all was good from then on. The man was nothing but a pure gentleman to me and the girls I was with.

The rest of the band were even better, spec Brad was great. Happy talk to anyone for ages and went backstage and brought presents out for us all. Legend!

aww they would be so cool to meet!

I'm quite proud of Craig... he seems to deal with things a lot better then he used to

does anyone know if The Vines read mail from fans... and if so whats the address to write to?

Lucky bugger! Im still soooo bummed i didnt hang around. Both shows at the gov i havent and ive missed out majorly, i would love to meet the guys! Definitely next time for sure!

I'm sorry about your experience, but this cracked me up so much.


Uhhhh yeah girl, if he thinks that he's kind of right.



Winterman & Goldstein Management
PO Box 545
Newtown NSW 2042
Australia
Attn: The Vines

yup of course he's better than everyone else...... I want to know why she was there if she was going to have a go at him...




cheers

Haha yep, that was us

Its a big call but i think we looked the most devo out of everyone lol because we walked to the rosemount from the city, since we're not from around there we had no idea the walk would take like 40 minutes

But I'm glad theres been an explanation finally

Poor guy. I bet he felt terrible about it too, which wouldn't have helped.

i don't reckon she actually said anything before he threw the glass (although i could be wrong, because something could have happened earlier), seemed more like a wrong place/wrong time kind of thing.
then it was after that they started yelling at each other

Actually, they have 3 shows in Japan. Extra Tokyo date has just added.
So..... it makes me more anxious about Craig's condition.
I've got tickets for all venues, then booked accommodation & train too.
I'm totally ready for the Vines' gigs now.
I'm so looking forward to seeing their gigs here in Japan,
but
.....worried. worried worried...
Obviously, he have to take a much longer flight Sydney to Tokyo, than Adelaide to Perth so.