Rod Wave Countersues Promoter Over Massive $27 Million Tour Issues

Extra particularly, this was for the “Final Lap” tour on the finish of final 12 months whose delays stretched into 2025, and Grizzly Touring claims that Rod should work with them sooner or later resulting from their contract. Nevertheless, Sunday’s (October 12) counter-filing claims that Grizzly is attempting to pressure him to work with them once more regardless of the huge tour points that led to cancellations and rescheduled concert events.

Moreover, the scrapped “Blaming Jesus” collaborator argued that the promoter’s work made it “logistically inconceivable” to meet the tour as scheduled resulting from manufacturing points and routing issues. Due to this fact, he needs a decide to let him self-promote his upcoming headlining “The Redemption Expertise” tour, a brand new trek for this new album. With a view to do that, the decide must make the Grizzly Touring contract null.

“Grizzly isn’t entitled to this improperly requested particular efficiency or equal injunctive aid, which successfully quantities to an indentured servitude,” the Florida artist’s lawyer James Sammataro reportedly said. “Defendants have misplaced confidence in Grizzly as their tour promoter and now not want to carry out providers for Grizzly or obtain Grizzly’s providers.”

However, Grizzly Touring thinks the cancellation of a lot of Rod Wave’s tour dates violated their contract, for which he should reimburse $27 million in advances. He argues that Grizzly was the one to breach the contract resulting from their “unilateral, onerous and inexplicable routing and reserving selections,” entitling him to the advance cash.

“Rod Wave incessantly realized solely on the final minute that [they] rescheduled [a show], typically solely after seeing tickets for these rescheduled reveals obtainable on-line,” the countersuit claims. “Solely 12 of the 35 scheduled [shows] occurred on the date and venue initially introduced.”

Rod seeks monetary compensation for the cancelations and reputational hurt. We’ll see what occurs along with his subsequent tour.