You always think it’s going to happen to someone else. Or, perhaps more hopefully, you always dream that it won’t occur during your lifetime. Sadly, though, what has been threatened for the past year has finally come to fruition – seven days have passed in Birmingham, and there has been no sign of long, lank hair, bare-chested pale purity, guilty glitter or pumping indie tunes. It was the week we never thought would come – Sundara Karma and INHEAVEN didn’t show up in the Second City this week.
The absence of two of the indie world’s big-hitting bands has caused a flurry of fury from local promoters, who had purposely kept slots free during the week should the bands’ respective agent give them a call. “When I first saw the bills for this week and there was no Sundara or INHEAVEN, I quickly checked to see they hadn’t split up,” said promoter Ron Golloway of Magic Knife Promotions. “I knew perhaps they’d do a secret or last-minute show, as Birmingham crowds expect them to show up at least once a week. It’s an order, really. Seeing one of these bands once a week is like the Friday night chippy & cocaine run.”
Such desertion has also hurt the bands’ respective fans. “We’ve deliberately kept our week free because we expected them to show up. We even tweeted RAT BOY and he told us he had a feeling Oscar had something up his sleeve,” said devastated fan Laura ‘Loveblood’ Drift. “Me and my friends went out the other night and spent loads on glitter, Red Stripe, disposable cameras and flowery shirts…what we gonna do with them now? We hope both bands have a reasonable explanation for this.”
The bands’ manager, InD Niall, issued a statement: “We can only apologise to the fans, promoters and reviewers of Birmingham for there not being a Sundara or INHEAVEN gig this week. As a token of our apologies, we have decided in November the Rainbow will house a one-off ‘supergroup’ show, in which INDARA HERMA will play both of the bands’ sizable hits.”
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