Australian police have tweeted out a warning regarding Nickelback, accusing them of "music crimes". Keep an eye out.
Before Nickelback’s gig at the Brisbane Entertainment Center in Boondall, the police department tweeted out a warning, saying: “Men matching this description expected to be committing musical crimes in Boondall tonight.”
Quite where this fits in with the serious business of police work is up for debate but the photofit alone is worthy of a retweet.
Urgent police warning: Men matching this description expected to be committing musical crimes in Boondall tonight. pic.twitter.com/iTI6ShuO2K
— QPS Media Unit (@QPSmedia) May 20, 2015
The tweet has already been retweeted over 600 times but the band are yet to comment on it. Following a lifetime of abuse, one suspects they are used to it - or can possibly take comfort from the fact that their official Facebook page (with 19 million fans) has over 2000 times the population of Boondall in total.
Having sold over 50 million albums, Nickelback are the second best selling foreign act in the US of the 21st century (only behind The Beatles). Nickelback are due to play Wembley Arena on 24 November, supported by the brilliantly named Monstertruck. They released their eighth album No Fixed Address in November 2014 which featured a guest appearance by Flo Rida. The album was memorably savaged by Consequence Of Sound, who described the lead track 'What Are You Waiting For' as "like a Corona-core country song written by Jimmy Buffett and covered by the worst DJ you’ve ever heard."
Recently a man raised over $36,000 for charity by listening to their music solidly for a whole week. Jesse Carey launched the "ultimate test of endurance" this week, during which he will listen to nothing but Nickelback on a loop for 168 hours. He's putting himself though this in aid of Charity: Water, an organisation which builds water wells in developing countries. On his fundraising page, Carey writes, "THANK YOU to everyone who has given and supported my dream to plum the depths of the human psyche as I embark on mankind’s greatest test of the powers of good and evil: In the battle between the music of Nickelback and the human spirit, who will emerge victorious?"
