Dirty Pretty Things have cancelled 17 European gigs after pulling out of a support slot on the upcoming tour of Mando Diao due to "an unavoidable change in the band's schedule", which is a great excuse if I ever heard one (today's CMU Daily, by the way, is a bit late because of an unavoidable change in the editors' schedules - mainly nipping out to get another can of Pepsi when I should have been finishing the Daily off).
But as compensation for those who will now miss out from seeing the band live, they released a statement. Yes a statement. Here it is. "We are sorry to announce that Dirty Pretty Things have had to cancel their support slot on Mando Diao's European tour due to an unavoidable change in the band's schedule. The band sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused to those planning on going to any of the gigs and look forward to playing in Europe again soon."
The unavoidable change in the band's schedule does not affect their upcoming London gig on 13 Sep which is just as well given that that is in support of the Make Roads Safe campaign.