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NKOTB Cancels Australia Tour, Blames Recession
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by Jordan Yerman | June 17, 2009 at 09:56 am
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New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) have cancelled their Australian tour. On the boy band's blog, Donnie Wahlberg blames the recession. Another way of putting it would be "poor ticket sales", though Australia has a relatively low population, and is really expensive to include in a concert tour, due to the travel distances involved.
Sucks for the folks who wanted to see NKOTB. The tour would have included Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane in the first two weeks of August.
"Despite warnings that the financial problems plaguing the world would compromise the Australian tour—they never gave up on this dream and neither did we," Donnie Wahlberg writes in a message on the group's official site, nkotb.com.
"We are not going to Australia…quite honestly—we tried very hard to make it work. However—we are, in fact, in the middle of a worldwide recession and we just cannot make it work."
Despite warnings that the financial problems plaguing the world would compromise the Australian tour- they never gave up on this dream and neither did we.
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at 22:21 on June 17th, 2009
What a joke.
No-one wants to see NKOTB. Not a soul.
at 00:19 on June 18th, 2009
I was looking forward to the concert and had purchase vip the tickets through their website that included an opportunity to meet them. I am very sad about the news!
at 22:08 on June 22nd, 2009
Best news I have heard all week, who cares NKOTB are pure crap, stay home and don't even think of coming here, the biggest joke 'band/group' manufactured rubbish!!