Adelaide Crying Inside After Another Concert Snubbing

Poor Radelaide. I visited your fine city in February with the likes of Frente in tow and had a jolly good time, but it seems we are pretty much the only people who have bothered to pop by the Festival State lately. Sook on!

Reports a weeping, self-harming The Advertiser:

Mamma Mia, here we go again. The Festival State has missed out on another high-profile tour with the popular ABBA musical Mamma Mia! visiting every major city except Adelaide. The musical, which begins in October, will visit Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane before wrapping up the tour in Perth in September, 2010.

Producers of Mamma Mia have blamed scheduling problems, but given Mamma Mia is one of quite a few lavish stage productions who have chosen to overlook the City of Adelaide, The Advertiser is quite rightly beginning to suspect something’s up.

It’s yet another show in recent years which initially has visited Adelaide, but because of a steady rise in popularity has seen its subsequent tours by-passing the city. Coldplay, who successfully sold out the Entertainment Centre on its 2006 tour, declined to return to Adelaide, opting for multiple shows interstate.

Goddamn you to bits, Coldplay! Adelaide liked your band back when nobody believed in you (and Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t cooking up Dinosaur Meat for Chris Martin’s dinner) but the second you became bigger than Jesus, bam! You forget the special Radelaidians who loved you all along.

Here are more people who are on Adelaide’s HATE YOU NOW list. All artists featured should feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

ACTS TO SNUB ADELAIDE

Coldplay – 2009

Kylie Minogue – 2008

The Killers – 2009

Kanye West – 2008

Eric Clapton – 2009

Sinead O’Connor – 2008

John Fogerty – 2008

Iron Maiden – 2008

Well I still love you, Adelaide. That doesn’t count for much, but know that when I take my Jess McGuire: Total Dickhead! musical on the road, you’re the first stop on the tour.

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