Billy Bob Thornton’s band cancels Canadian shows

The flu has forced an early end to Billy Bob Thornton’s musical tour of Canada, his publicist said Saturday. The news was reportedly greeted with loud applause at a Friday night show in Montreal after Thornton called Canadian concert-goers “mashed potatoes with no gravy” in a radio interview Wednesday. The Boxmasters’ final Canadian dates — in Montreal and London, Ontario — were canceled because “one of the band members and several of the crew have the flu,” said Thornton publicist Arnold Robinson

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