Blues-rock duo The Black Keys have parted methods with their managers, Irving Azoff and Steve Moir, simply weeks after the band abruptly canceled their North American enviornment tour.
The New York Occasions first reported the cut up on Thursday (June 6), citing a consultant that stated either side had “amicably parted.”
The report comes about three years after the duo — comprising Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — left their longtime supervisor John Peets of Q Prime South to companion with Azoff and Moir of Full Cease Administration.
“We solely interviewed basically two individuals: It was between Coran Capshaw [of Red Light Management] and Full Cease, and it was a very exhausting determination. [Azoff], together with his concentrate on touring and promoting our tickets and stuff, gave the impression to be extra on web page with the place we wished to be,” Carney instructed Billboard in April 2022.
Information concerning the band splitting with Azoff and Moir comes shortly after they quietly cancelled their 31-date Worldwide Gamers tour, scheduled to start out on September 17 in Oklahoma.
The band addressed the cancellation in a assertion on X on Might 27, saying: “Following the latest run of reveals within the UK & Europe, together with stops at iconic venues like Brixton Academy and the Zenith in Paris, we’ve determined to make some modifications to the North American leg of the ‘Worldwide Gamers Tour’ that may allow us to supply a equally thrilling, intimate expertise for each followers and the band, and might be saying a revised set of dates shortly.”
Nevertheless, the NYT suggests the tour cancellation is likely to be attributable to gradual ticket gross sales in a crowded market with rising ticket costs. Rising ticket costs are a part of what prompted the US Division of Justice to launch an antitrust lawsuit towards Ticketmaster and its proprietor Dwell Nation. Tickets for The Black Keys’ tour have been listed on Ticketmaster earlier than the band determined to cancel.
The difficult market atmosphere might be a contributing issue to the band’s determination to half methods with their managers, the NYT stated.
Other than The Black Keys, Jennifer Lopez additionally cancelled the US leg of her This Is Me… Dwell tour. Dwell Nation not too long ago introduced that the singer is “taking day off to be together with her kids, household and shut associates,” whereas assuring followers that they are going to be refunded.
Selection reported in March, about two months earlier than the choice to cancel Lopez’s tour was introduced, that the live performance suffered from weak ticket gross sales, with “giant numbers of tickets at many of the tour’s dates stay[ing] unsold.”
Writing to followers by way of her On the Jlo e-newsletter, Lopez stated: “I’m utterly heartsick and devastated about letting you down.”
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