Uh oh! Bad news for fans who were planning on attending the opening night performance of Michael Jackson‘s much ballyhooed comeback tour titled This Is It which will take place over 50 nights at the O2 Arena in London, England starting this Summer. Jacko‘s management issued an announcement that the first few dates in July have been pushed back to February and March of next year! This means if you have tickets for the July 8, 10, 12 and 14th shows then your tickets will only be valid next year. The new opening night date is July 13th:

Michael Jackson has rescheduled the first four shows of his sell-out This Is It tour at London’s O2 Arena causing chaos for fans. The first gig will now be July 13 and not July 8 as originally planned. And fans with tickets for next three shows will now have to wait until next year to see the King of Pop, with the July 10 show moved to March 1, 2010; July 12 to March 3, 2010 and July 14 to March 6, 2010. Apparently it’s due to his management “wanting the production to be the best it can”, fans have been told via an email from organisers. The email said:

“This afternoon Michael Jackson producers will be announcing the rescheduling and change of the opening shows in order to meet the challenges presented by such a large and technically complex concert. Please allow us to apologise. It was not an easy decision to change the schedule but in the end we wanted to ensure that all of Michael’s fans attending the concerts get the same quality in staging and level of entertainment. We are writing to let you know that the July 10th concert that you purchased tickets for at the O2 arena has now been rescheduled for 1st March 2010. The tickets you receive will be printed with the rescheduled date and you will have the same seat originally purchased. You do not have to do anything as you will be automatically allocated the same seats and moved to the revised date. We understand the inconvenience this may have caused and for this reason we have secured some excellent hotel deals for Michael Jackson fans travelling to London on these rescheduled dates.”

Wow! This is some bullshizz! I would be PISSED if I had tickets for the opening night show and now have to wait until next year to see it! What a complete and utter eff up. To be honest, I’m not at all that surprised. I imagine there will be other postponements and/or cancellations. I cannot believe that MJ is ready for an undertaking of this magnitude and I’m pretty sure that this mess is the beginning of a lot more mess. We have tickets for a September show (I even told David it’d be smart to get tix well into his tour just in case something like this happened). All I know is I wanna see this trainwreck on stage once in my lifetime. What a mess … I feel so bad for his diehard fans who are now totally screwed.

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