Korea Gig Guide

Shady Promoters Still Going Strong…

This is a couple of weeks late (well, three weeks), but I just discovered Janis Ian’s announcement that she was canceling her part in the Flower Power Peace Concert. And it is depressing:

The South Korean dates have been cancelled, for reasons too numerous to go into here, but among them are failure to pay in a timely manner, failure to communicate for weeks at a time, failure to provide visas and/or work papers or information about same in a timely manner, false advertising (saying I will be appearing in places I have not agreed to appear in), and other breaches of contract too numerous to mention here.
My apologies to anyone who was planning to come to the shows because of my own participation in them. We have been trying to resolve this, in good faith, for months now. With the show dates less than 3 weeks away, we finally gave up on it this morning.
The Japan dates are still on, make no mistake! I’ve worked with those folks for decades, and have no problems with them!!

Well, that was distressing. Very sad to see Korea continues to be such a shady place for concerts. Especially since people like Yellow9 have been trying to hard to improve things.

While there are, sadly, way too many stories like this in Korea’s concert annals, here is one of my favorite, the story of James Randi (aka “The Amazing Randi”), when a concert promoter tried ripping him off back in 1995.