Beirut es uno de esos grupos que puede decidir si vas al Summercase, al FIB, al Daydream Festival, etc. Lamentablemente no estará en ninguno. Ni en España. Ni en Europa. El grupo de Zach Condon anula su próxima gira europea por razones que el propio Zach indica en el consiguiente comunicado:

“FROM ZACH CONDON, BEIRUT

Hello,

It’s with great regret that I have to tell all of you that Beirut is cancelling their summer European shows. My reasons for doing this are many, some of which I don’t care to discuss, but I still feel I need to provide something of an explanation.

The past two years have been a mindblowing experience. From the first indications that people were putting songs from Gulag up on their blogs to our incredible tour of Australia and New Zealand that we just completed, everything that has happened has been beyond
anything I’d ever hoped could happen with the music I wrote and
recorded in my bedroom. Once things started happening, I decided I wanted to do everything as big as possible.

So, I set about putting together a large band, and giving that band a huge sound, and making the most spectacular records we possibly could.

I know this can sound like an artist shithead kind of comment, but going through all that really does have its low points along with the highs. The responsibilities of gathering people around your vision, working with great people like those who work directly for the band and those at the label, wanting to insure that every show is as good as humanly possible so that every single person in the audience sees that we put in a real effort, all of that leads to a lot of issues in terms of doing right by people who have done you right.

It’s come time to change some things, reinvent some others, and come back at some point with a fresh perspective and batch of songs.

Please accept my apologies. I promise we’ll be back, in some form.

Zach”

Resumiendo en la lengua de Cervantes. Beirut agradece todo el apoyo recibido estos dos años, gracias al cual ha crecido y montado un grupo excelente. Pero todo tiene un precio y desea hacer lo correcto con todo el mundo, aparte de otros problemas que no quiere desvelar.

Para rematar, se despide con un esperanzador pero enigmático: “Es el momento de cambiar algunas cosas, reinventar algunas otras y regresar a un punto con una perspectiva fresca y otro lote de canciones. Por favor, aceptad mis disculpas. Prometo que volveremos, de algún modo.” 

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