(and then we try to make them right)
Overall, things went pretty smoothly last year. Except for one thing. We had to cancel the second show of a band through absolutely no fault of their own, but in retrospect, we feel we didn’t make that quite clear.
During the second show’s soundcheck, we got a noise complaint from a neighbouring office. The office was supposed to be empty, but apparently someone was working late, who got absolutely livid and threatened to call the police if we made any sound before 18.00h.
Now, we’re not afraid of the police, and we only use that specific stage for one weekend, but the venue is there all year round. We didn’t want to jeopardize their much-needed good relationship with their neighbours. So, we had no other choice than to skip the first two bands.
For one band, we could easily find another slot, but the other had to leave straight after their scheduled show due to other obligations which made it impossible to move them to another slot.
Of course, it’s a festival and these things happen, but we could have communicated it waaaayyyyy better.
In the heat of the moment, with hundreds of other things going on, we gave you some vague ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’ reason which maybe made it sound like the band had some part in the cancelation while they absolutely didn’t.
They really wanted to play their second show and judging from the queue at their first show and all your disappointed reactions you would have REALLY loved to see them again.
So, we did the only logical thing – we invited them back for Left of the Dial 2025. And they accepted!
They will be part of the Feb 40 which we’ll proudly announce tomorrow.
Big love,
The stage divers of Left of the Dial
PS: Most of you will know exactly which band we’re talking about, but we promised to keep it a secret until the first official lineup announcement, so if all you smartasses can restrain yourself from posting their name in the comments for about 24 hours, that would be greatly appreciated. Tomorrow it’ll be official and we can all publicly celebrate their return!
