Bruce Springsteen simply bought cancelled — on the Jersey Shore.
A tribute band devoted to The Boss’ music pulled the plug on a gig at a bar not removed from his Backyard State dwelling after a dispute with its proprietor over the singer-songwriter’s anti-Trump feedback, in accordance with a report.
No Give up, a 20-year-old nine-piece Springsteen cowl band from New Jersey, was slated to play Riv’s Toms River Hub on Could thirtieth — till the “I’m on Fire” singer kicked off his European tour filled with on-stage rants flaming President Trump, NJ Advance Media reported.
Band chief Brad Hobicorn began receiving “concerned texts” from bar proprietor Tony Rivoli shortly after Springsteen’s feedback went viral, in accordance with the outlet.
By Sunday, Rivoli allegedly pulled the plug on the present that was booked 9 months upfront. He texted Hobicorn that the gig can be “too risky at the moment,” citing the restaurant’s conservative buyer base, the outlet reported.
“Unfortunately it’s just too much money I wanted to do the Springsteen tribute for that money in my social media team would have promoted it we would have done well but now because Bruce can’t keep his mouth shut we’re screwed,” Rivoli wrote in a textual content message to Hobicorn obtained by NJ Advance Media.
Hobicorn supplied to have his band play solely classic-rock covers as a substitute of Springsteen, however Rivoli balked at paying $2,500 for a classic-rock cowl band, the outlet mentioned.
In a message despatched to the band’s bassist, Man Fleming, Rivoli wrote, “Whenever the national anthem plays, my bar stands and is in total silence, that’s our clientele. Toms River is red and won’t stand for his bull—.”
After Fleming posted in regards to the scenario on Fb, Rivoli appeared to vary his tune a bit — insisting he by no means cancelled the gig and had modified his thoughts. However the band determined it was too late for the bar proprietor to backtrack.
“This is not political for us at all,” Hobicorn instructed the outlet Thursday. “We’re just a cover band that’s trying to make some money and people rely on it financially. We’re the ones really getting hurt.”
“At that point, there were negative vibes about the whole thing,” Hobicorn mentioned. “There was definitely a safety concern,” he mentioned.
Rivoli, although, insisted the quilt band may have performed.
“As of (Wednesday), they could have played as No Surrender,” Rivoli instructed the outlet.
“I think a lot of people of my base would not have came, but I could have been wrong. You know, who knows? You can’t predict what people are going to do.”
Toms River bar and restaurant joints have beforehand sparked backlash for his or her conservative slant.
Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails in Toms River put a hamburger on its menu devoted to the precise wing extremist group the “Proud Boys” in January — main to an enormous on-line backlash and an apology from the proprietor.
Springsteen — who was born in Lengthy Department and raised in Freehold — lambasted Trump’s administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” whereas kicking off the European leg of his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour in Manchester, England final week.
Final Friday, Trump slammed the musician, calling him “Highly Overrated” and “dumb as a rock” for going “to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States.”
“Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country,” he posted to Fact Social.
As a substitute of enjoying The Riv’s Tom’s River Hub, No Give up will as a substitute play Headliner Oasis in Neptune Township on Could 30, in accordance with the outlet.
