Roy Chubby Brown has lashed out at a ‘woke, cancel culture, dictatorship’ after a venue cancelled a forthcoming gig.
However, bosses at Westmorland Hall in Kendal say they pulled the plug because of poor tickets sales.
The controversial comic was due to play the Cumbrian town on December 6, but the show was pulled ‘due to unexpectedly low tickets sales and other unforeseen circumstances,’ according to the venue.
However his management team have raged against the decision, saying the show is still months away and has only just started being advertised – even though it has been on sale since the end of 2023.
In a long post on Facebook, his manager Ritchie Hoyle said: ‘Personally, I don’t think this is a venue management decision. It sounds like the council’s influence has come into play again.
‘The venue were adamant to cancel even though I suggested we look at a marketing plan to boost sales if that was their concern.
‘Sorry it’s another message of… I’m guessing woke, cancellation culture, dictatorship taking over again, deciding what you can and can’t watch. When will this nonsense stop and just give people the right to choose for themselves?
‘What harm is a Chubby show behind closed doors doing apart from putting a smile on people’s faces? We soldier on and apologise to the Kendal fans.’
Westmorland Hall is run by Better, a charitable social enterprise originally set up in 1993 to run Greenwich council’s leisure centres in South London.
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