Columbus, OH death metal band Sanguisugabogg are claiming to have been threatened with being shot after upsetting the general manager at the Minglewood Hall / 1884 Lounge in Memphis, TN last Tuesday, July 29th.
According to a post publicly shared by the band (see below), that alleged dispute occurred after said manager accused the band of breaching contract for not playing the full extent of their allotted set time. Per Sanguisugabogg themselves, the venue have disputed the band’s side of how the alleged incident played out. Sanguisugabogg said on social media:
“UPDATE
They’re telling us to take the post down and saying he didn’t say he was gonna shoot us that he told us “I have a gun…” that’s not true he told 5 of us he was going to shoot us and they’re saying we breached contract which is totally made up thing
People do not support Minglewood Hall / 1884 Lounge do not buy tickets to their shows and make everyone aware of this! Straight up f**k this place!
**WARNING**
BANDS, BOOKING AGENTS, MANAGERS DO NOT WORK FOR THIS CLOWN ??
This is Cory Likens and hopefully by tomorrow morning he doesn’t have a job! At our show in Memphis, TN tonight right after we got done playing we were told to come to his office to settle so our tm came up and was told that we breached our contract because our set ended earlier than what we were slotted (not a thing) and shoved him out of his office.
All the bands returned to just settle out and one of us just wanted to have a conversation as to what was going on and he popped his head out of the office to tell us to leave or he was going to SHOOT us. He ended up leaving as he was told to by our awesome team and luckily after a few hours someone way more professional and calmly mannered wrote a check. We’ve heard from people that he’s unwell and stuff to not this extreme but bands not getting paid has happened before.
Glad you made sure to leave without giving us your name I bet you felt really proud and safe but quick detective work like finding your f*ckboy haircut on google did the trick.
We also made sure to include pics of the green room cuz we saw the staff take a picture of the room when the table got knocked over… obviously it’s not broken
Awesome venue, awesome show, screw this dude!”
