Meet Kill Hannah, The Latest Totally Shitty Band To Have All Of Their Gear Stolen In Philly
Hey everybody, this is Kill Hannah. Good Lord do they suck. Yesterday morning, they woke up at the Holiday Inn on Packer Ave. in South Philly to find that all of their tools with which to make the Hot Topic soundtracks were stolen, because they obviously never read this Philebrity post. And now they’ve cancelled their tour. Sometimes, thieves can also be a sort of aesthetic police. Their woe-is-me press release is after the jump.
KILL HANNAH
TOUR VAN STOLEN IN PHILADELPHIAREMAINING U.S. FALL TOUR DATES CANCELED
SEVENTH ANNUAL “NEW HEART FOR XMAS” SHOWS
STILL SET FOR CHICAGO THIS DECEMBERChicago nu romantics KILL HANNAH woke up on the eve of wrapping their fall tour with Jet, Papa Roach and Morningwood to a find their 15-passenger van and 14-foot trailer stolen. Taken between 4am and 11am today, Wednesday, November 11 from the front of the Holiday Inn on 900 Packer Ave, Philadelphia, PA-the same location that rock trio Mae had their van stolen from just a week earlier-the band lost over $120,000 in gear and merchandise, including one-of-a-kind vintage custom guitars and vintage custom effects. The theft comes just over a year after a devastating fire in Europe destroyed everything on the band’s bus.
Lead singer Mat Devine says, “We’re devastated and speechless. We’ve been touring so hard around the world for the past seven years and this is the most evil thing we’ve witnessed. Special Crimes say this was a coordinated heist.”
The band regretfully has to cancel their remaining tour dates, scheduled for the Electric Factory in Philadelphia tonight and the Nokia Theatre in New York City tomorrow. Their seventh annual “New Heart For Xmas” weekend of shows and events are still scheduled in Chicago on December 18 at Reggie’s Rock House and December 19 at Metro.
Specific gear stolen include:
- Epiphone Elitist Riviera Custom Shop SN#T301722
- 1992 Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray Bass
- Pair of matching vintage 1968 Fender Bassman Heads Custom Shop
- Gibson ES-135 White
- 2003 Gibson Firebird
- Marshall Triple Lead StackFor any leads on the van, trailer or missing gear, please contact Bethany Watson/DAVIS ARTIST MANAGEMENT: bethany@davisartistmanagement.com
November 12th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I have shortened their press release for them:
“nu romantics”? KILL!
November 12th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I hope to dear god this is a joke band.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Nice to see you rolling out the good news.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I bet this “coordinated heist” was carried out by the PPA. They’ll see their hot topic shit on Parking Wars soon enough.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Ooh, so edgy!
November 12th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Good lord. Someday maybe they’ll realize the thieves did them a favor.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
It is really this common for touring bands to not have insurance on this crap, or in lieu of that, bring the stuff inside, or have someone sleep in the van? I mean I know money is tight for these guys but if you have $120k worth of shit sitting in a parking lot… I mean, come on.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Shit music or not (and this is, without a doubt, shit music), this blows. I would likely cry like a baby if this happened to me. I hope that the people who have been running this scheme for quite some time are caught and beaten within an inch of their lives, oh, and arrested too.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
@almost everyone
It’s pretty ridiculous that these guys get made fun of because their music doesn’t line up with your favorite band. No matter what sounds they make with it, that’s still a shit load of stolen gear.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
@dbritt
You took the words right out of my mouth.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
@dbritt
I’m not kicking these guys why’ll their down a la calling them on the phone and saying this, or even posting such a thing on their band’s myspace or whatever. Obviously it stinks that their gear was stolen, but are you going to tell me you’ve never insulted a band before?
November 12th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Excuse me, while, not why’ll.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
And “they’re”. Ok, I’m out.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Also: ” The theft comes just over a year after a devastating fire in Europe destroyed everything on the band’s bus” — and they STILL didn’t get insurance? C’MON SON.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@ride1076
“They can’t hear me” is a lousy excuse.
Also, it’s “their” in both instances. Ok?
@djlynnabraham
Where does it say they don’t have insurance?
November 12th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
“It’s pretty ridiculous that these guys get made fun of because their music doesn’t line up with your favorite band.”
Ummm, no, it’s not. Not lining up up with with your favorite band (whatever that is intended to mean) and making shitastic music are different things. The thieves were like a group of musical Dexters.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Maybe Hannah’s new boyfriend got mad and decided to take his revenge. Either way, don’t leave that much shit sitting in a parking lot in South Philly, idiots.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
“The thieves were like a group of musical Dexters.”
- expat attack
Goddamn quote of the week!
November 12th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
so this isn’t some of their finest work. but in their defense, the stuff they wrote in ’95 had really hit a soft spot in my 15-year-old heart and thats good enough for me. and about the bus, they’ve had their things combust into flames while driving through the alps. this is nothing.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:13 am
@ride1076
“They can’t hear me” is a lousy excuse.
Also, it’s “their” in both instances. Ok?”
A lousy excuse for what? Who are you, their mom? Sorry man, but I’m just calling a spade a spade. Killing Hannah just happens to be a shitty band who just happened to come under my radar because their shit got stolen in my town.
What’s your damage? Are you their mom? Oh wait, I already asked that.