10 Craziest Reasons Musicians Cancelled Gigs

Snow falling onto a roof isn't really the kind of thing you would consider as a reason to cancel an entire U.K. leg of a tour, but that's the reason given when Mötley Crüe's press officer, Stuart Bailie gave when he told the remaining venues that the band wouldn't be able to perform back in 1988.

He told them that an abundance of snow on the venues' respective roofs was a concern to the band, and while that was a ridiculous excuse, it wasn't the real reason the band cut their tour short.

As Bailie later explained:

"I'm lying, of course. I have been briefed by the offices in New York and London to put out this fabrication. The truth is that Nikki Sixx, bass player with the Crüe... had died of an overdose on December 23. Fortunately, the paramedics had arrived on the scene and one of them (a fan of the band apparently) had administered two adrenaline shots to the heart. The musician had been saved, but the tour was off. Lucky old Nikki escaped from the hospital wearing just his leather pants and eventually got to write a bad song about the experience called Kickstart My Heart."

The truth would have been an appropriate excuse, but because Bailie initially gave the false one, it stands as one of the craziest reasons a band gave for canceling a gig.