Subject: BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Frontman Slams Headliner ROB ZOMBIE: 'We Are Shit To Him'
Guitarist/vocalist Matthew "Matt" Tuck of the Welsh
metalcore act BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE who are
currently on the road in North America as the opening
act on a three-band package also featuring LACUNA COIL
and headliners ROB ZOMBIE has posted the following
message on his group's official message board (where
he posts under the name "Mattie") (comment in question
was posted on the BFMV message board today, April 6,
2006 at 4:34 p.m. U.K. time):
"Yo, check it. We get just 30 minutes on this ZOMBIE
tour, that's it!!! So there's not a lot of time to
fuck around. Apologies for not playing all these
[songs], but shit, man, you can't please all the
people all the time. Next time, bro. As for the
merchandise, ZOMBIE makes us price match him so, yup,
it's fuckin $40 for a t-shirt, which is insane, I
know. Greedy money-grabbing fucks. We're only allowed
two pieces of merch, too, which sucks ass.
Unfortunately, being first on on a tour like this
sucks, but it's gotta be done. As I write this, I'm
sitting on the fuckin' floor of the venue 'coz we
don't have a dressing room again, 'coz fuckin Zombie
takes them all for him, his band and crew. Basically,
we are shit to him, but fuck it if this is what it
takes to get a name over here, then it's gotta be
done. I'm not one to fuck around with words, so yes,
we are not being treated well on this tour. Oh yeah,
we don't get a soundcheck either. Fuckin' pissed at
this tour, man."
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's debut album, "The Poison",
has sold 36, 000 copies in the United States since its
February 14, 2006 release. ROB ZOMBIE's latest effort,
"Educated Horses", registered a first-week tally of
107, 000 to debut at No. 5 on next week's The Billboard
200 chart. LACUNA COIL's 2002 album, "Comalies", has
sold more than 230, 000 copies in the United States,
while its newly issued follow-up, "Karmacode", is
expected to shift between 30, 000 and 40, 000 copies in
its first week of release. |