The tour began last month, with a pair of sold-out shows at the American Airlines Center, in Dallas, where the Mavericks play; soon after, videos of exuberant audiences began to circulate online. Not all of the excitement has been cheerful: during a show in Kansas City, a fourteen-year-old attendee was caught on tape assaulting a sixty-six-year-old usher, and was charged with felony and misdemeanor assault; dates in Chicago and Detroit have been cancelled, without much explanation.
Reports silently leaked on TikTok over the weekend, beginning with the September 25th show in Dallas at - and we wish we were making this up - The Bomb Factory. "Whoever was shitting their pants at the HAIM concert pls see yourself out," one person posted. The comments were full of confirmations, including, "Were you guys stage right?! That's where we were and it was awfullll," and "STAGE RIGHT IT WAS SO BAD," as well as clues to a deeper mystery.