'Black Lips' cut short India tour.Byline: ANI Washington, January 26 (ANI): Rockers 'Black Lips' abandoned their seven-date India tour in between following troubles with the police over their raunchy raun·chy adj. raun·chi·er, raun·chi·est Slang 1. a. Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: "[He] onstage behaviour. The band, who had been half-way through the tour, had reportedly incurred the wrath of promoters after its guitarist Cole Alexander stripped and jumped into the crowd at their Chennai concert on January 23. Alexander was said to have later got back onstage and kissed his fellow band members, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Indiecision.com. Enraged promotion company executives had allegedly called in the police and put off the rest of the tour - driving the band to flee the nation. "They (the promoters) tried to get security to restrain us until the Tamil police arrived. We locked the door while they were kicking and banging on it. Meanwhile, we slipped out the other emergency exit," Contactmusic quoted a statement from the group as saying. "For future reference, we really enjoyed the people of India and we hope western rock bands will be able to tour there in the future," they added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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