Republic Tigers Detained by UK Immigration

Scene darlings the Republic Tigers made it safely across the pond earlier this week for their first European tour. Sort of. According to Tigers tour manager Dave Gaumé’s blog, he and the band were detained for 24 hours in a windowless, concrete room because they arrived in Scotland sans work visas. “We played charades,” Gaumé writes. “We slept on disposable but dirty pillows, under those silver plastic “blankets” for camping and emergencies.” The whole experience sounds uncomfortable, although Gaumé mentions a couple of cute Canadian gals who were holed up with them. In the end, though, it seems the Tigers managed to work things out, and so the tour goes on.