“Too risky” the concert for a Springsteen cover band

THE No surrender (American cover band of Bruce Springsteen) should have performed at the Rive Toms River Hub, in Toms River, New Jersey, May 30, but the owner of the bar would have told them that he was “too risky at the moment” in consideration of what Springsteen said to Manchester by addressing the American president Donald Trump.

The band of the band, Brad Hobicorn, told the local newspaper NJ.com that the owner Tony Rivoli sent him a message on Sunday to tell him that the show would not be kept, as the customers is mostly conservative and therefore would disappoint the recent anti-trump speeches of Springsteen.

According to NJ.com, Rivoli’s text messages said that the concert would be fine “but now, since Bruce cannot keep his mouth closed, we are screwed”. He also sent a message to the bassist Guy Fleming saying: “Every time the national anthem is played, my bar stands up and is in total silence, this is our customers. Toms River is red (the color of the republicans) and cannot stand his bullshit”.

According to reports, the group was offered to play songs from other classic rock icons, but the $ 2,500 they expected would not have been paid. They then reprogrammed the performance for the same evening at the Oasis headliner in Neptune Township.

“For us it is not a political question at all,” Hobicorn said to NJ.com. “We are just a cover band that is trying to make some money and our source of income. We are the ones who be damaged.”

Rivoli (the owner of the restaurant) denied having canceled the concert, saying: “I think many people from my base would not have come, but I could be wrong”. He added that in the end it was the no surrender who chose not to perform in Toms River.

No Surrenter said they did not want to exhibit there because of “negative vibrations” and “security problems”.