The Exponents 30th anniversary tour has been cancelled.
Co-promoter Brent Eccles said the 28-date tour, scheduled to kick off next month, had been postponed and a rescheduled summer tour announcement is planned for late 2012.
"The timing was just wrong for it, the market wasn't reacting like we thought it would. We've decided to refund the tickets and postpone the tour until summer. There are a lot of other things going on and the timing for this tour just didn't feel right," Eccles said.
"It's our responsibility to step up and say that. I think we've done the right thing by everyone in postponing the tour until the summer Christmas, New Year period."
Eccles said the tour was the "longest tour" he had ever promoted in New Zealand and would have seen the much loved Kiwi band performing in Timaru, Dunedin, Gore, Invercargill, Queenstown, Oamaru, Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington, Lower Hutt , Wanganui, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Rotorua, Napier, Hastings, Gisborne, Opotoki, Coroglen, Tauranga, Papamoa, Whakatane, Hamilton, North Shore City (Auckland), Mangawhai and Whangarei, commencing in Timaru on Friday, March 9 and ending in Whangarei on Tuesday, April 10.
Eccles said he wasn't sure at this stage if the rescheduled tour would encompass as many dates.
The Exponents played their first gig at the Hillsborough Tavern in Christchurch in 1981 and have collected numerous awards over the last 30 years with their major hits, including Why Does Love Do
This To Me, Who Loves Who The Most, Victoria, I'll Say Goodbye (Even Though I'm Blue) and Whatever Happened To Tracey.
