News•January 21, 2008 1:24 PM ET•4,314 views

The Handshake Murders cancel tour dates

The Handshake Murders has cancelled a handful of upcoming tour dates as a result of financial difficulties, among other things. Here's a statement from guitarist Bryan Evans: "We've never done this within our entire touring career, but the unthinkable must take place. We are having to cancel our upcoming tour with With Blood Comes Cleansing and A Plea For Purging as well as our Texas dates with A Plea For Purging. The reasons just kept piling up on us within the past two weeks. Here are some of the reasons I can actually go into: 1. We're low on merch and have too many standing debts to merch companies - nothing outrageous, but we're definitely not in the financial stance to let it keep piling on. We are out of several sizes of designs and basically we cannot reorder. 2. The band is in quite a large financial slump due to credit card debt and minimum payments stacking. This is from getting the band off the ground in the past, merch orders, CD pressing, etc. If you're in a band, you know about this. 3. We're working on relationships within the band. it's amazing what nonstop touring can do to 5 friends. 4. We were promised by tour management that we'd receive at least a certain said amount each night, and this promise was broken when we received the profit breakdown. we would've been completely stoked about doing the tour anyway if it weren't for the first two reasons I just stated about our debts. I will add, though, that the tour management tried to resolve this problem. 5. My guitar head is in the shop for repairs and could not get fixed in time. 6. Jeff no longer has a bass head. having to borrow shit every night isn't cool. 7. There are other personal issues I don't feel at liberty to discuss. My biggest and sincerest apologies go out to everyone who planned on seeing us especially... all the fans we could've possibly made on this tour, all the promoters involved (especially you folks in Texas who were willing to throw something together last minute), and most importantly our apologies go to our friends in With Blood Comes Cleansing and A Plea For Purging for bailing out last minute. This is unprofessional, I do know. In the meantime, we will be trying to do some extensive songwriting for what will hopefully turn into a new record eventually. We're all stoked about writing, we've all got some different ideas. Hopefully we can tour out with some new songs by April, this is what we're aiming for."

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junelso 1/21/2008 10:37:40 AM

uno post??? don't really care

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pat_rota 1/21/2008 10:47:57 AM

shitty news, but at least they don't have to go out on that gay tour.

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no_heroes 1/21/2008 11:14:08 AM

good band, even better dudes. i'd rather them write new stuff then tour with shit bands.

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yousuck 1/21/2008 11:18:45 AM

cry a little more you fcking gays. try ripping off coalesce a little more too. maybe youll get somewhere.

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kelly 1/21/2008 11:31:34 AM

QQ pussies

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christianzombie 1/21/2008 11:45:27 AM

wow this band has really hit the big time after that norma jean endorstufft

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withoutashield 1/21/2008 11:55:51 AM

Weak.. I love these dudes.

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boytruck 1/21/2008 12:07:16 PM

Too bad. Awesome dudes. I wish them the best.

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thebigredmachine 1/21/2008 12:09:45 PM

why doesn't this douche just say he's poor and that he hates the other dudes in the band?...

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SloppyJoes 1/21/2008 12:50:37 PM

Great guys, shitty news, happens to most bands nowadays tho.

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Machete_Twins 1/21/2008 1:02:22 PM

FIRST FIRST POST WOOOOOOOOOO

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bluescreenofdeath 1/21/2008 1:09:33 PM

props for having the balls to say all this. sad but true this is the story for most bands these days. won't be surprised to hear this more often. economy fcking sucks for now.

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petenasty 1/21/2008 1:10:41 PM

they don't ripoff coalesce, they sound exactly like meshuggah. but that's ok because i still like it

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YouAreSceneAsFuck 1/21/2008 1:33:13 PM

They figured out that With Blood Comes Cleansing and A Plea For Purging were a band of gays and had to come up with a last minute excuse not to tour with them.

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rickrock 1/21/2008 1:39:18 PM

Sappy band woes letter = LG Headines

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myeyeshavevisualAIDS 1/21/2008 2:04:35 PM

what? no paypal link? go on tour with your new WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-mbulance...

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beauford_ray 1/21/2008 2:35:31 PM

excellent fellas...hope they get back on track...

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gayblowjobs 1/21/2008 3:01:50 PM

dope band. at least they're off this gay tour.

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keithxedge 1/21/2008 3:23:24 PM

These guys should change their name to "The Handjob Givers"

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clawhammer 1/21/2008 3:25:30 PM

Awesome dudes. I wish you the best.

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Fur_Beach 1/21/2008 4:04:39 PM

keithxedge 1/21/2008 3:23:24 PM These guys should change their name to "The Handjob Givers" lol.

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thetowerofrome 1/21/2008 5:00:44 PM

YouAreSceneAsfck 1/21/2008 1:33:13 PM They figured out that With Blood Comes Cleansing and A Plea For Purging were a band of gays and had to come up with a last minute excuse not to tour with them. thats exactly what i was thinking hahah

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moonter 1/21/2008 8:46:15 PM

I want to hear more on reason #7.

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ChesterTheMolester 1/21/2008 11:10:52 PM

Ok..look. If you play in a hardcore band your arent going to make any money. Sell out..join a boy band..or get a job.

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bobby2000 1/21/2008 11:34:47 PM

Aw, this was cute. Alright band though, but come on, what band isn't in serious debt trying to get off the ground. I mean, metallica ate HAND SANDWICHES! didn't anyone watch VH1?

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chas 1/22/2008 2:00:48 AM

fck everyone who talks shit on these guys. they're all super nice.

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ShaolinLambKiller 1/22/2008 7:30:24 AM

then break the fck up

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marching_band_rules 1/22/2008 10:57:02 AM

lol @ obligatory coalesce mention to prove that you do in fact know coalesce even though i guarantee you downloaded it a year ago and listened to a few seconds but didn't like it so it sits in your music folder and that constitutes knowing coalesce

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AntArchitect 1/22/2008 12:10:26 PM

Sounds about right. Bands = debt. Put 10 years of your life in one and maybe there will be hope. That should be a new name for a band...lol. Good luck to you guys. take care!!

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Quesadilla 1/22/2008 1:35:56 PM

These guys sound gay

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