jenepherre | 08/08 No Doubt/PATD show

First, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you can see more here, and specifically here.

So, I just got off the phone with Artist Arena and with Crush Management.

Crush was no help at all, although that's apparently due in part to me calling at lunchtime while everyone is out of the office. The receptionist didn't know anything about anything and told me to send an email to info@crushmm.com and someone would "probably" get back to me.

The call to Artist Arena was a little more interesting. I don't think the guy took me seriously at first, but when he asked where I'd heard that they weren't doing the show, I told him I'd talked to Ryan personally. He suddenly had to put me on hold at that point. He came back on the line pretty quickly though and said that "Mr. Ross" was mistaken and should check with his management. I asked if that meant that Crush Management didn't bother to tell their artists when they scheduled them for shows, and the guy replied saying something to the effect that "Mr. Ross" didn't really know what was going on most of the time... that he didn't even know what was happening two weeks ahead. I personally think it's out of line for a promoter to say something like that about an artist to a fan (a *customer*), but whatever. No big surprise, really. Just confirms my opinion of Artist Arena.

In any case, I'm going to email Crush and tell them that if they want all of us to believe that the band is really definitely for sure doing the show, then they need to get one of the band members to confirm it publicly. That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?