Covid-19 Update: Tour Postponement and Merch Webstore Update
Covid-19 update. March shows postponed due to the outbreak, tickets will be honored. Hope to know more about May shows soon. Life has never felt more like a Murder By Death lyric. Event sizes are being restricted / limited & promoters and venues are not allowing the events to take place at this time. We are currently working on rescheduling all of the dates, same venues and with @amigothedevil so please just sit tight and we will post as soon as we have info- please don't reach out, we are overwhelmed with dealing with all the fallout and the extra emails and questions are disrupting our ability to get the work done. Just stayed tuned while we sort this out.
This tour was 10 months of work to book, organize, promote and prepare for and we are having to deconstruct and rebook it in a matter of days. It is the single most devastating thing to happen in our career, and we are crushed. We're heading home with stacks of bills and no tour pay, after what should have been a celebration and our most successful tour. It financially destroyed our income for the year. I honestly don't know what we are gonna do for our immediate concerns. Anyway, please hang in there and we will let you know about the rescheduled dates ASAP, obviously we hope it all blows over soon.
Also, please consider that your local venues, promoters and favorite bands have all just had the rug pulled out from under them. People in this industry don't have sick leave, usually don't have health insurance, and this effectively renders industry folk as fired from work for the indefinite future. I am aware that people who work in other industries are also affected and maybe you're strapped for cash, but please think about how the $25 or so you paid for tickets for any show is just one small part of many contributions that, if you don't ask for a refund asap, and instead go to a rescheduled show later this year, could help keep a local business open or a band together. Do what ye must, but do it with empathy!
Stay safe, wash those mitts, hug your loved ones (with just your eyes) and hunker down. Love to anyone affected by this, let's all try to keep each other healthy and please stay sane and kind
A lot of you have asked about tour merch or if you can help so we have put some of it up in our webstore.
Our site is at http://murderbydeath.bigcartel.com
That's a great way to help us out, but also consider not asking the venues for ticket refunds, as all tickets will be honored for the postponed dates. It's going to be hard for a lot of these venues and arts spaces to weather the storm, and even tho we don't directly benefit from you holding onto tickets until we play the shows, it will help those promoters and venues stay afloat. We're all in this together.