Shellac
Great American Music Hall
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Wednesday, September 8 at 8 pm PDT
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Great American Music Hall Presents Shellac with Shannon Wright
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$25 Advance | $25 Door
Doors 7:30pm | Show 8pm
Shellac’s performance at Great American Music Hall on September 8, 2021 is cancelled. Your order will be automatically refunded within 14 business days. A statement from the band is below:
With some resignation, Shellac of North America have decided to cancel our September, 2021, dates on the West coast with Shannon Wright. These dates were booked a year ago, replacing a similar set of dates we also had to cancel due to the pandemic. It breaks our hearts to have to cancel again, and is frustrating in the extreme, but the Delta variant of the Covid-19 pandemic has proven especially virulent, and the potential risks of doing the tour outweigh and compromise the joy we would normally experience playing shows.
We are all vaccinated and aren't particularly at risk of serious illness, but the distinct possibility of having to cancel the tour while underway due to a breakthrough infection, and isolating in some remote location would be a horrible outcome. Additionally, we feel a responsibility to our audience, and if we were the cause of a congregation that subsequently made other people sick, it would weigh on our consciences terribly.
The venues and promoters have taken this news graciously and admirably, and we appreciate their thoughtfulness. Ticket holders should contact the venues about refunds.
We love playing more than anything else on earth. We will reschedule these dates, let's say in a year from now, and we will be back among you. We miss it terribly and will see you then.
steve, todd, bob
Shellac of North America (you can call us Shellac, that's fine) is a minimalist hard rock band. Bob and Steve live in Chicago, both of them have wives and bicycles. Todd lives in Minneapolis with his wife, they have bicycles. We have been a proper band since, I don't know, like 1993. Todd and Steve played a little as a two-piece (casually, no shows or anything) starting in around 1990, then Bob joined and we started doing it for real, that was probably some time in 1992 and we haven't quit. Six or seven albums, some singles. Tour everywhere they'll have us, two weeks at a time. Really happy with how it's all worked out.
March 2020 started with a tour of the midwest, then we canceled the end of it because holy shit there's a fucking global pandemic. We haven't all been in the same room since. Some zoom chats. Lots of texts. Had another album mostly done but haven't been able to wrap it up. We were gonna do that after the tour, but... Everything's been rescheduled a couple-tree times already.
Anyhow we're gonna finish that record sooner or later, you'll hear about it when the time comes. In the meantime we're going to do all the shows that got rescheduled as long as it's safe to play. God what a weird thing to have to think about. I mean we all know people who fucking died of this. We're not so horny to play that we'd do it if there was significant risk, but for the moment everything is on and we're looking forward to seeing everybody.
Oh yeah, Bob was in the Volcano Suns and is still in the Martha's Vineyard Ferries, he runs Chicago Mastering Service and cuts records for a living. Todd was in Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus, still in Brick Layer Cake, mostly teaches drumming and makes sharp investments. Plays golf when he can. Steve was in Big Black and Rapeman (ugh with that name already) and makes records for other people mostly at Electrical Audio. Steve won a World Series of Poker bracelet in Seven Card Stud in 2018, the same year Todd hit a hole-in-one. Bob has sailed solo around the horn. Top that!
(I made up the part about Bob sailing solo around the horn)
Steven Frank Albini - guitar (usually sings) b. 1962
Todd Stanford Trainer - drums (rarely sings) b. 1963
Robert Spurr Weston IV - bass (sometimes sings) b. 1965