This was sent 30 minutes ago to my booking agent (on the day of the show):

J-,

I am sorry for the confusion and for the short notice, but if I’m being honest, then I must cancel tonight’s show.  I feel awful about this, but I think it important to rethink  this show tonight.  Unfortunately, as you know, I was away for 2 weeks and just haven’t been able to get prepared adequately for this show.  Finals begin next week, and for our largely student population at Two Story they are expecting to have a nice place to study.  Had I been able to prepare our community for a show (i.e. flyers, postings, web, verbal communication from our staff), then it would not come as a shock to them when they would be forced to leave mid-stream to find a quiet environment to study, instead they would have simply made other arrangements for tonight.  I let this slip, and made a poor judgement by agreeing to do a show in December under the current circumstances and my previous absence.

I was going to just try and deal with this, but when Mark backed out, it just made it even harder to justify disrupting the house at such a pivotal time for our customers and their studies.  And now that the night is upon us, I simply cannot treat our community this way.  They are too important, and their studies are important to them.

I am sorry for all the back-and-forth with this show.  I really wanted to try and accommodate Tyler and you tonight, because we have been talking for so long.  But, the truth is I have to put the house and our customers first, so I can’t force so many to leave tonight without fair warning and keep so many from coming in who were planning to camp it out for a long night tonight studying and working.

I hope you understand this, Jordan-Ann.  Please accept my apology and pass my apologies along to Tyler.

It would be better to get through this month and the holidays, and then revisit a show in the upcoming months.

Thank you for understanding.

Apologetically,
Chris
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This is totally unacceptable for a venue to back out of a show the day of. Music is how I pay rent- not to mention how excited I was to see all my Athens friends tonight. I’m going to come back soon- to a different venue. I’m sorry for the confusion. I love you guys. Thanks for your support.

Tyler

hello- my name is j. tyler lyle, and as of midnight, I am 24. Tomorrow night (actually tonight/ 12/1) I’m having a party at Southern Comfort (a redneck trucker bar at 285 and Moreland) at 10pm. All of Tumblr is invited. the end.