Spanish electronic band Delorean have postponed Saturday’s show at the Sinclair in Cambridge, just nine days after the band was kidnapped in Mexico City. The new date is February 23; all tickets will be honored, and remaining tickets go on sale again today at noon.
After the band were held hostage for more than 30 hours in what police first described as a “virtual kidnapping,” shows in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and Minnesota have been scrapped from the schedule. The tour was expected to pick up tonight in Detroit, but it appears that gig have been postponed as well.
The band released a statement through Bowery Boston this morning:
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Delorean concert scheduled for October 19 has been postponed to February 23. Tickets will be honored at the rescheduled show, Refunds are available at the point of purchase.
According to reports last week, Delorean received a phone call at their Four Points hotel room on the morning of October 7 from a person posing as a security officer, who urged the band to relocate to a different hotel because of impending violence in the area. When they complied, they were held hostage in what police called a “virtual kidnapping.” The Los Angeles Times wrote that “members of the group were held for several days in a hotel while terrified family members were told to pay a large ransom or they’d be harmed. ‘Virtual kidnapping’ is a new form of crime in Mexico, in which the perpetrators play on fears of violence to extract ransoms even when the victims aren’t in immediate danger.”
On Wednesday, Delorean released a statement, which read, in part: “What followed for the next 30 hours was an experience where the threat of death was real due to the psychological manipulation inflicted on us by our kidnappers. Thanks to the fantastic work of the National Police in Spain, Ertzantza, Interpol and the Federal Police in Mexico, we were successfully rescued yesterday morning.”
Delorean are currently on tour supporting new record Apar, which was released September 10.