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Willis Earl Beal shows cancelled
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 29 January 2014
So Willis Earl Beal’s upcoming tour of Europe, the one supposed to start on 18 Feb at London’s Village Underground, is now a no-go, it having been cancelled earlier this week. Not only that, but XL Recordings signing Beal claims not to know why the shows have been canned, which is odd because… well, you know, artist/label/management communication, and all that.
Willis writes on his Tumblr: “I want to thank the folks who bought tickets and assure them that this was NOT my decision. At this point, the reason that I’m not touring is as mysterious to me as it is to you. Hell, if it were up to me, I’d go down there and sing a cappella while standing on a milk crate on the sidewalk. Wouldn’t be the first time. I even told them this, but, to no avail. What can I do? Situations arise… before my eyes… stealing my body… neath ravenous tides”.
Neath all the ravening bad news, there is a silver lining in ‘ A Place That Doesn’t Exist’, a new EP Beal is streaming in the stead of his 2013 LP, ‘Nobody Knows’. Stream its eight tracks here: