YOUR DEMISE Held, Searched At Gunpoint At Canadian Border
February 22, 2010, 14 years ago
BW&BK; has received the following update from Earache Records:
In an earlier press release, we had stated that nothing said "welcome to America" like getting tased. Apparently we were wrong. YOUR DEMISE guitarist, Stu Paice just posted a rather alarming story on the band's official Tumblr page about how the band was stopped at the Canadian border, searched and held at gunpoint by the police:
"As we headed our back into America from Canada, we decided to head to Tim Horton's for the last time before we entered the states.Shortly after leaving, everyone was full of bagels and coffee, drifting of to sleep, our rest was interrupted by the sound of three Canadian police cars. Sirens blasting, we pulled over completely baffled as to why we where being stopped as we had done nothing wrong.
So we stopped at the side of the free-way to the sound of, ‘Driver, get out of the car now’, at this point we had no clue what was going on. So Danny gets out and they tell him to stick his hands up and turn around, walk toward the car, we then saw a police man stick a gun in Danny's back and drag him to the car, handcuff him and put him the back of the police car. So we now mental stuff was going through our heads. Next they shouted for the passenger (Pumpjack) to get out, Same thing, GUN, HANDCUFFS, CAR BONNET!.
We started to giggle nervously and heard, ‘All of you , get out’, so we got out and we were told to put our hands in the air and get down on our knees, the whole time, we were held at gunpoint by two scumbags.
So we get out in the freezing snow, on the ground and the cop starts to search the van. I mean it was like 24 Jack Bauer shit.
They soon began clear, that they had the wrong people and found it to be a bit of a misunderstanding. So it turns out the car infront of us, well the driver had just shot someone, and we had basically just missed it happen. The police were responding to it and thought it was us, when in theory they got the wrong car/van.
So an eventful last night in Canada.
Stu xx"
Keep up with Your Demise on tour via their official Tumblr page.
The band's tour schedule is now as follows:
February
24 - Santos Party House - New York, New York25 - Heirloom Arts Theater - Danbury, Connecticut
26 - The Classroom - Middletown, New York
27 - Hangar 84 - Vineland, New Jersey
March
1 - Club Octane - Charleroi, Pennsylvania2 - The Lighthouse - Frankfort, Illinois
17 - House Of Rock - Corpus Christi, Texas
18 - Emo’s - Austin, Texas (day show)
18 - White Rabbit - San Antonio, Texas (night show)
19 - The Village - Little Rock, Arkansas
21 - Gallery 13 - Columbus, Georgia
22 - The Warehouse - East Ridge, Tennessee
March (Atticus Metal Tour II **)
23 - The Attic - Dayton, Ohio24 - The Rave - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
25 - Station 4 - St. Paul, Minnesota
26 - House of Blues - Chicago, Illinois
27 - Magic Stick - Detroit, Michigan
28 - Peabody’s - Cleveland, Ohio
29 - Emerson Theatre - Indianapolis, Indiana
31 - Opera House - Toronto, Ontario
April
1 - Tulipe - Montreal, Quebec2 - Imperial - Quebec City, Quebec
** with UNEARTH, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, THE GHOST INSIDE, VEIL OF MAYA and CARNIFEX. For more info go to this location.
June (with Bring Me The Horizon)
21 - Starline - Fresno, California22 - Jerrys - Bakersfield, California