Yesterday, we wrote about the terrible mistake an Austin local, Emerald Point Bar and Grill, was making trying to put on a show led by nu-metal expert Vanilla Ice when her state is seeing record spikes in coronavirus cases. Shortly after we published the story, Ice announced that the show was being postponed because it didn’t realize how bad it was. It turns out it was also because no one bought tickets.
Due to the increase in COVID-19 numbers in Austin, we will move the concert to a better date. We were expecting better Coronavirus numbers for July, but unfortunately the numbers have increased quite a bit, so for everyone’s safety and health we are going to stay home. pic.twitter.com/MWWfNWf3zd
– Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) July 2, 2020
While Ice initially said the show was postponed “due to the increase in COVID-19 numbers in Austin,” ABC News reports that the venue’s owner claimed it only sold 284 tickets. The breakdown, according to the report, was that “84 tickets had been sold on EventBrite, while he had sold the 96 available VIP tickets, plus 104 tickets to sit on the top deck of the venue.”
They planned to limit the show to 450 customers, and couldn’t even get there. Ice brought 1,800 people to the scene the last time she performed there. The venue can house 2,500 with COVID restrictions in place.
The owner of the venue also claimed to be receiving death threats for scheduling the concert.
Clearly, it is best that this program not continue, and not just because of the virus.
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