Black Keys Split With Management After Canceled Tour Debacle
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Black Keys and managers Irving Azoff and Steve Moir have parted ways after the sudden and thoroughly publicized cancellation of the band’s North American arena tour previously scheduled for the fall.
A rep for Azoff confirmed the split to Variety late Thursday, calling it an “amicable parting”; a rep for the group did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The news was first reported by the New York Times. The band’s 31-date “International Players” tour, scheduled to begin on Sept.
17 in Oklahoma, was quietly cancelled over Memorial Day weekend, with the dates disappearing from the Ticketmaster website. Two days later the band posted on social media that they had decided to reimagine the tour as a “similarly exciting, intimate experience for both fans and the band,” which means it will be scaled down to smaller venues.
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