From a recently received press release:
Disney Forces Machine Head Cancellation
In a stunning last-minute move, Walt Disney Properties have pressured promoter Live Nation into canceling Machine Head's performance tomorrow night at the House of Blues venue in Anaheim (on their Disneyland property). Citing violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics as the reason, the diversity-impaired corporation began pressuring the promoter on Saturday to cancel all upcoming heavy metal concerts, placing Machine Head under an internal "review process" that took 5 days before bothering to convey their alarming decision to the band late yesterday - less than 48 hours before their Black Tyranny Tour was to kick off at House of Blues Anaheim on Friday night.
Now, to be honest, I don’t know the first thing about this band. But I find numerous things to take issue with in Disney’s actions here — not least that they ought to know who they’re booking before they book a show. “Undesirable fans”? Come on, now, kiddos. You just hosted Bat’s Day in the park and now you want to ban heavy metal from the House of Blues? (No, not that goths and metalheads are the same, silly; just that Disney’s picking and choosing of which subcultures they approve of bothers me.)
Anyway. Like you needed another reason to avoid the Mouse Kingdom.
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