To think Adele’s been shockingly unprofessional?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Adele was due to start a Las Vegas residency at Caesar’s Palace this weekend and cancelled the entire thing less than 24 hours ahead of time, saying they weren’t ready for a number of different reasons.

FIL had bought tickets to the opening night for himself and MIL as a 40th wedding anniversary present, they had pretty much just checked into their hotel when she announced it wasn’t going ahead, and the cost of that and their flights is now money down the drain. DH and I and BIL and SIL were planning on taking them away for a family weekend at Easter but have instead offered to pay for travel and accommodation when (if?) it gets rescheduled.

I get that covid is fucking a lot of things up for a lot of people, but surely they could have faced reality a bit sooner? Even one more day’s notice would have saved so many people taking flights and checking into hotel rooms that they could have rebooked or been refunded for.

God that teary waah waah clip was just cringeworthy. What is wrong with her, has she not one bit of self awareness?? They haven't been 'destroyed' they just seem incredibly unprofessional and ill prepared.

Disappointed that it was as much about her as it was her fans. The crying was a bit OTT.
Adele won’t feel the financial hit but not all of her fans will simply be able to ‘reschedule’.
Nah, poor effort - and I’m a massive fan.

Surely it's not up to Adele to decide these things? She must have very well paid management who plan and oversee such massive and expensive productions. Can't see how she can be blamed if the show has to be postponed due to circumstances beyond her control? (and I'm not even a fan)

Maybe their insurance says they can't cancel until the last minute

It is the lack of notice that I think is so bad. Plus she has cancelled all 24 performances so it isn't a temporary problem. Regards her team having covid, you don't really need a team for Adele, People go to hear her voice. She could have been sat on a cardboard box singing and the majority would be happy.

I think she should have given more notice. It was obvious

YY to her offering an alternative - not a full show obviously, but surely she could have gone ahead with some limited form of show?

Are they flying into Las Vegas to watch Adele (or not now) and then flying straight back out again? If tickets are booked can they do other things in Las Vegas? Making the money less 'down the drain' IYSWIM.

I couldn't watch the tearful 'the show ain't ready' performance.

I do appreciate that they’ve not had time to practice and I believe some equipment hasn’t arrived, but she is well and can put on a show to the best she can, even if it’s just her singing alone on stage. There must be 100’s of people able to help get this show on in some way.

I just don’t think she really wanted to do the shows. She always says she hates singing live. It’s not as if her shows are a big deal, it’s just her singing, I’m sure it could have been sorted if she really wanted it. She said she’d reschedule the 2017 dates but never did. Doubt she’ll reschedule this. She lets a lot of people down, not just fans but people who would have been working on the show. Getting seriously bored with her woe is me shtick.

@PandoraP

I would be relieved if I was going to an Adee concert and it was cancelled 😂

Snap

From the BBC:

While Adele has apparently been beset by production problems and illness within her crew, other Vegas shows have been running as normal.

Three weeks ago, Katy Perry smoothly rolled out her own residency on the strip, to largely positive reviews.

"I've been awake for 30 hours trying to fix this" blah blah. Just sounds like incompetence and hubris to me.

From what she has said roughly half her team has Covid. Presumably they all came down with it one at a time so it started with:-

Jack’s got Covid - it’s ok George can do his bit.
Fred’s got Covid - ok Susan can do his bit.
Now Susan’s got Covid- ok Lucy can do her bit and Sarah can do Fred’s bit.
Now Lucy’s got Covid…..

Presumably they suddenly hit a point where it just couldn’t happen. So I do have sympathy.

But…..

in the end - everyone just wants to hear Adele sing. The pyrotechnics or whatever she was doing are undoubtedly fun but it is all about the singing with Adele.

And it doesn’t take much of a crew to sit her on a stool and get her to sing.

She could give everyone a choice - come now - it’ll be basic but I’ll be singing. Or money back. Or tickets to a new date.

I suspect most people would come now. And then boast for years about how they got a “more intimate, more personal” Adele concert!

YANBU Op I was going to start a thread about this too, it's disgraceful of her.

A less than perfect show is better than no show. I think there is more to the story.

I have a friend who's a roadie and has worked on some really big tours. From stories he's told, it seems it's always on a knife edge whether everything will be ready in time for the first date of a tour, they have literally been rigging lighting as people are coming in the door before now. As staging gets more elaborate and more complex, it gets worse and worse.

If stuff hasn't been delivered on time, and crew have suddenly gone down with Covid, I don't see what else they could have done, tbh. I suspect that they were hoping that kit would arrive and that they could get crew at the last minute.

It was dreadfully short notice, and I really feel for those who've been disappointed and lost money, but in uncertain times where every other damn thing is disrupted, it's bound to happen with big shows occasionally.

It sounds like Covid and delivery issues might be an excuse. It's now being reported there were going to be rows of empty seats where tickets hadn't been sold, especially at the front in the most expensive ones. The shows were only billed as sold out because third party sellers swooped in and bought up tickets to sell on.

It's also being suggested that her insistence everyone who came to the show had to be vaxxed and show proof of it – a negative test wasn't sufficient – had put lots of people off, hence the empty rows.

Her management weren't going to want her to play to a half-empty room…

It's the sort of industry where these things come together in a very last minute way. They really don't know if they will pull it off until 1-2 days before.

Covid is an excuse.

If it was covid, then why cancel the whole damn residency? Why say the 'show isn't ready' (not a valid excuse - you should not be running to the last second on such a big production and you should have a contingency in place). You then don't have to wail like a banshee about it in a deeply unprofessional manner to garner sympathy.

You would still have a fair idea a number of days out - even with covid - that things wouldn't be ready on time. Given that this would give some people the ability to cancel hotel rooms, flights and even precious annual leave so they could attend a later date that should have been considered because its respectful to the fans.

The rumours are that ticket sales have been slow and she's not liking the direction of the show. She wants it to be all about her voice yet theres supposed to be 60 performers for the opening song. Whats that all about?

I think we will in due course get some trot about artistic differences and possibly about her voice. And the whole thing will end up panned.

But yes the whole thing has been handled appallingly and I do hope its damaging to her career cos it damn well should be.

Totally agree. I think significant compensation should be paid, especially as it’s reported that Adele is set for make millions and millions from this residency.

COVID is bollocks.

So they have covid this week, and the rest of the 4 months until April?

And they’re performing in one of the biggest music venues in the world. If some of their own equipment isn’t there it can be sourced by the venue, even staffing can be sourced by them.

My DS works in the music industry and acts regularly don’t bring e.g. their own lighting designer or sound engineer etc for whatever reason and the venue employ people exactly for that reason.

@draramallama

From the BBC:

While Adele has apparently been beset by production problems and illness within her crew, other Vegas shows have been running as normal.

Three weeks ago, Katy Perry smoothly rolled out her own residency on the strip, to largely positive reviews.

"I've been awake for 30 hours trying to fix this" blah blah. Just sounds like incompetence and hubris to me.

So she does it all herself does she ?

Thought she might have staff/management

I mean I’m woefully ignorant about the logistics of a show like this but in most industries logistical issues can be solved by throwing money at it. I just wonder if it was more about her than anything else?

@AlternativePerspective

Apparently Harry Styles has done similar. Has cancelled an entire tour and told his fans they can have priority tickets for the replacement one. Except that instead of 8 tour dates there are now only 3.

This is true.

Harry Styles - or the promoters, whatever - have had our money for tickets for DD since late 2019 when we bought 2 tickets for her Christmas.

The gig has moved venue from a large indoor arena to an outdoor stadium. We have "kindly" been offered pre-sale tickets because the previous gigs were cancelled, no guarantees that they will be at the same price as the ones we already have and the general feeling is that tehy will be a lot more expensive as it's a stadium event.

And yes, it's gone from a tour with several dates to a tour playing in Glasgow, Sheffield and London only. Pretty shabby.

Although to be fair to Styles, the original gig was April 2020, rescheduled for March 2021, both cancelled entirely because of Covid, not because he/his band were disorganised or under-rehearsed.

@MiloAndEddie

I mean I’m woefully ignorant about the logistics of a show like this but in most industries logistical issues can be solved by throwing money at it. I just wonder if it was more about her than anything else?

You have hit the nail on the head there i think

Another Oprah one on one coming up , oh poor me me me i had to cancel some shows .