Tropical Fuck Storm Sydney Festival Shows Cancelled

Please see the below statement from Tropical Fuck Storm regarding the cancellation of their two Sydney Festival Shows:

“Unbeknownst to everyone out there in internet-mob land, we have been doing our best to talk to Sydney Festival about the possibility of them refunding and ending their partnership with 2022’s star sponsor (the Israeli Embassy, who donated a paltry $20,000 to some dance group). 

Rather than immediately announce online that we’d jump ship, we thought we’d actually try to do something in the real world for everyone involved and try to encourage Sydney Festival to do the right thing and fix the problem they created, that problem being Sydney Festival taking on a sponsor so dodgy, pointless and controversial it would inevitably mean that hundreds of unwitting artists (who are having a rough enough time with the pandemic as it is) would become the targets of online harassment, bullying, smear campaigns, ridiculous accusations, misrepresentations and abuse from total strangers who have no idea what’s actually going on behind the scenes, what any artist’s position is or even what they’re talking about..

It is a problem we didn’t create and one we weren’t aware of until about 48 hours ago. 

At the time of posting, Sydney Festival has stated they have no intention to refund the money or sever the sponsorship relationship, even though the shit sandwich they’ve landed every billed artist in is blatantly obvious to them. 

Due to this complete lack of respect and integrity towards the artists billed from Sydney Festival and its partners, we have decided to cancel our two appearances.  

We want to apologise to our fans who have made arrangements to come to the show; we appreciate you all. When we do finally get to play for you, Sydney, it is going to be a corker. We will see you soon!” 

Tropical Fuck Storms Deep States National Tour with special guest Michael Beach, kicks off tomorrow night in Victoria, all ticketing details can be found tropicalfuckstormrecords.com 

Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States Australian Tour 2022

With Special Guest Michael Beach

Fri 7 January                                   Theatre Royal SOLD OUT Castlemaine VIC

Sat 8 January                             The Eastern SOLD OUT Ballarat VIC

Sun 9 January                                 The Forum SOLD OUT Melbourne VIC

Sun 30 January                           Princess Theatre Brisbane QLD

Fri 11 February                         Torquay Hotel Torquay VIC

Sat 12 February                    Uni Bar Hobart TAS 

Fri 22 April                                 The Charles North Perth WA

Sat 23 April                           Freo Social Fremantle WA

Sun 24 April                  The Gov Adelaide SA

Tix on sale now tropicalfuckstormrecords.com