This previous weekend, Mayndard James Keenan and co. held their inaugural “Software Reside In The Sand” vacation spot pageant in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The three day occasion noticed Software headline on each Friday and Saturday, and featured performances from different bands together with Primus, Mastodon, Coheed and Cambria, Eagles of Dying Steel, and extra.
Tickets to the pageant reportedly promised “two distinctive headlining units” by the band – a promise many followers imagine Software didn’t ship.
Following Software’s set on Saturday (March eighth), many followers in attendance took to social media to precise their disappointment within the present, claiming that the band’s brief 9 music setlist was largely the identical as the ten music setlist they performed on Friday evening.
Whereas there have been some variations between the 2 reveals, 4 of the 9 tracks performed have been repeats (“Worry Inoculum,” “Rosetta Stoned,” “Pneuma,” and “Jambi”).
With followers having spent 1000’s to attend, many turned offended on the lack of a very “distinctive” setlist, resulting in reviews of Software being booed and attendees leaving the present early.
Now, Georgia-based lawyer Stas Rusek is making an attempt to file a class-action lawsuit in opposition to the occasion’s promoters. Rusek believes that followers are entitled to compensation, claiming that the 2 setlists are too related (breaking the marketed promise of two distinctive reveals) and that the band minimize Saturday’s efficiency brief.
After going through a dissatisfied crowd, Software apparently left the stage early throughout their second evening with out enjoying the music “Vicarious” – which followers noticed written on the band’s setlists.
Rusek is in search of disgruntled people to participate within the lawsuit.
“The potential lawsuit in opposition to the promoters of Software In The Sand is certainly being investigated. Now we have had a lot of curiosity from Software followers who attended the pageant, a class which I personally fall into,” Rusek informed Steel Hammer.
“These have been my twenty seventh and twenty eighth Software reveals. There was a palpable sense of betrayal within the air because the present started the second evening, and it lingered all through the rest of the weekend.
“What it boils all the way down to is that purchasers of the pageant package deal have been promised ‘two distinctive units’ by Software. Whereas the feedback on these posts argue about what ‘distinctive’ means, the fact is that the chance to see Software play two distinctive units, ie no repeats, was the figuring out issue for many attendees to tug the set off on spending 1000’s of {dollars} to attend.
“Most Software followers, like me, have attended a number of reveals on the identical tour, and we all know that, because of the spectacular and sophisticated nature of their present, most songs might be repeated. Nonetheless, this isn’t what pageant attendees have been promised.”
Rusek – who describes himself as “an enormous Software fan, but additionally a pageant attendee who feels your ache and seeks justice for all of these ripped off by a basic bait and swap” – guarantees that those that take part within the lawsuit is not going to need to pay a price until they win.
