Mars Volta’s Leader Dubs Sunn O))) ‘Fucking Crybabies’

Ahead of his upcoming tour, the brains behind The Mars Volta – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – has branded fellow experimentalists, drone masters Sunn O))), “crybabies” over their decision to pull the plug on a planned Australian tour earlier this year.

Rodriguez-Lopez's tour is being promoted by Heathen Skulls' Robert MacManus who was at the centre of the Sunn O))) controversy when the band alleged that the promoter couldn't deliver on contract deadlines. Speaking to Inpress' Lochlan Watt for a story in tomorrow's issue, Rodriguez-Lopez – whose previous tour was also promoted by Heathen Skulls – said that Sunn O))) should 'get real' with their expectations of promoters.

“Shit, they sound like a bunch of fucking crybabies to me,” Rodriguez-Lopez says. “So you're telling me that a promoter was wishy-washy with some of the shit that he promised? Fucking, join the club, that's why there's promoters and that's why there's people who make music. It's like - that's the way it goes down.

“I'll put it to you this way – if we were to cancel a tour every time that a promoter didn't come through with what they said it was going to be like, we might have gone on one tour in this past 20 years. Promoting in general... you go to Mexico and the promoters are all tied with the Mafia, same thing with Russia. What can you say about it?"

That's not a group that the multi-instrumentalist, producer, band-leader and film director is putting his Australian promoter in, though.

“Our last Australian tour was incredible. We had a great time. Robert was great, maybe he had an odd sense of humour or something, but shit - who doesn't?”

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez will also headline the CherryFest Festival in Melbourne Sunday 25 November.