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Ted Leo NOT playing Santos Party House anymore...

Ted Leo

Ted Leo just let Santos know that he’s in Rhode Island where there’s too much snow to drive to NYC for tonight’s show, so… he will no longer be playing the New Years Eve show…. UPDATE: In Ted’s own words::

At 8:30 last night, my dear friend Simon, who is doing some booking for Santo’s, called to asked me if I wanted to jump up and play 2 or 3 songs between Andrew WK and Gang Gang Dance on New Year’s Eve (tonight) at Santo’s in Manhattan. I am, for better or for worse, currently in Rhode Island, but I initially said “yes” to doing the show – sounds like fun, right? Right! But I woke up this morning to a bastard of a blizzard here by the ocean in Southern New England. I understand it’s not as bad as all that in NYC, but it’s the getting there that’s getting me down – there’s just no reasonable way for me to make this happen without pushing the boundaries of safety and what little sanity I have left after the fall and early winter that has been, so I am, unfortunately, pulling out of the event.
I know that it seems like I’ve been canceling a lot of things lately, but first, I was only asked to do this less than 24 hours ago, second, it’s just bad frakking timing and bad frakking luck, and third, with the exception of the entire tour I had to cancel in 2003 due to vocal chord injuries, the cancellations that have happened this fall and winter are more than all of the previous cancellations I have made in my ENTIRE 20 years of playing music. So please bear with me – tough times out there – they find everybody, in their own way, eventually…
I am extremely sorry, and I hope to see you all back out there soon.
Be well, and happy new year!