CONAN on Facebook wrote:
US DATES - BAD NEWS. The other day we posted an update on our upcoming US tour. Unfortunately, and disappointingly, after a couple of month's of quiet certainty, excitement and behind the scenes planning we have been hit with the very unexpected news that the US organisation responsible for our main anchor show has decided to reverse their decision and has instead decided to fund a different bands flights, as a result there is no budget available for CONAN - this happened just as we were expecting final confirmation of the flights so it was totally out of the blue. The almost comic timing of this decision has made it impossible for us to adjust and has of course left a massive hole in our budget, we therefor have no choice but to back off and rethink things. We were awaiting final confirmation of our flights before we moved ahead with organising the rest of the tour, and we are now at the point where we would need to commit several hundred pounds of our own money for our visa application, you can all imagine how tricky this is for us. We hope you can understand why we have backed off altogether.
Nevertheless, we wish our replacement every success over there and wish to express our apologies to anyone that was expecting to see us play in the US this year. We are currently considering how to move things forward but we won't be coming over in 2012, this was totally beyond our control. This is all we have to say on the matter. Thanks to everyone who had supported us in this venture up to now - we all tried, but Crom is cruel.
ONWARDS NORTHMEN.....
IRON MAILED.....
GREAT DRAGON.....