Cheap Trick cancel show
Cheap Trick have scrapped a show in Canada on September 1 over structural concerns - just weeks after they had to run for their lives as a stage collapsed around them amid a storm in Ottawa.
The Surrender hitmakers' equipment was destroyed by high winds and lashing rain, which suddenly brough the Ottawa Bluesfest to a close on July 17 - and now the bandmates have pulled out of a concert at the Pacific National Exhibition after learning that Berger, the company who provided the Mega-Stage set up at that show, will be handling the upcoming concert.
A statement from the band reads: "All potential alternatives have been explored by the band and promoter and were exhausted, leaving Cheap Trick with no other option to cancel their September 1st engagement at the PNE.
"Unless current investigations prove otherwise, the band will not, as a matter or principle, but more importantly, as a matter of safety, appear on a Berger stage in the future."