sacapuntas wrote:We asked Pitchfork to remove it and they did not.

Oh, really? That's pretty uncool. I wonder if anyone from Pitchfork got shut out...

Anyway, I feel better after reading your post. Sounds like a long series of miscommunications.

It was a free show in a too-small venue. The problem just seems to be that the station didn't realize it was responsible for hosting a real show, and the band should've played more than once in Chicago. Anyway, I'll shut up, because I don't have enough information to make any sort of legitimate anal...

Honestly, I'm not really in a position to say, since I wasn't there.
I can only assume that all of this chaos is the result of people in charge being overly cautious.

I'm a radio station idiot who wasn't involved in the show (I couldn't even stay to hear them, unfortunately), but I feel really badly about how irresponsibly this was done, and so do a good number of the people who were running it. The place wasn't filled anywhere near to capacity, and the venue was...

The shear stupidity of this could make it the coolest thing ever. Hopefully, 500 people will show up, and the 250 who don't get in will stand outside singing an acapella version of "30,000 Monkeys" while knife-fighting. Or something. I'm not going to this anyway, though. Which sucks, but w...