One of the UK's prime pop-punk bands - who isn't Neck Deep - Roam, have sadly been robbed, yet again, while on tour in France.
One of the UK's prime pop-punk bands - who isn't Neck Deep - Roam, have sadly been robbed, yet again, while on tour in France.
The band had all of their cash, which was comprised of merch money, show fees and personal stashes, stolen from them. Scarily enough, authorities also believe the band was gassed inside of their van, while they were sleeping, so the thieves (or perhaps thief) wouldn't wake them up. Jesus!
Read a statement from the band below:
"Guys. We woke up yesterday morning in France to find out we'd been robbed...again! This time, from our van while we slept inside. Police think we were gassed so we were essentially knocked out so they could fiddle the lock and get inside.They took all our cash; show fees, merch money and personal money, but fortunately didn't steal anything else. But it's still a huge blow, especially after finding out that our passports had been stolen just 3 weeks ago, 2 days before we were due to fly to Japan, costing us £3000 to replace, change flights and get replacement US working VISAs for Warped this summer.
Basically, we're in a bit of a financial pickle with lots of bills to pay for and need to continue this Simple Plan tour, as we'd never ever dream of dropping out of doing the best part of our "jobs".
So we've set up a new shirt on our global stores to help us out.You can buy it here: http://smarturl.it/roammerch
You don't have to, but even sharing this post will help.
Thanks so much, we massively appreciate your support.
ROAM x"
So, maybe pick up their album 'Backbone' (here), maybe go and grab a new shirt, or just share that Facebook post around and help these lads out during this difficult month for them. Anything will help em' out.