--- title: Nickelback Kickstarter to Make Sure Band Does Not Play in London description: Dont Let Nickel Back Kickstarter to make sure band does not come to London canonical: https://time.com/3475323/nickelback-kickstarter/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-06T18:04:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:37.300Z og:title: Nickelback Kickstarter to Make Sure Band Does Not Play in London og:description: Dont Let Nickel Back Kickstarter to make sure band does not come to London og:url: https://time.com/3475323/nickelback-kickstarter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ac3f20345bd8d70/6986a72f810bbb492bc93cd9/450375637.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3543 og:image:height: 1993 og:image:alt: NETHERLANDS-PHILIPPINES-WEATHER-TYPHOON-NICKELBACK og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nickelback Kickstarter to Make Sure Band Does Not Play in London twitter:description: Dont Let Nickel Back Kickstarter to make sure band does not come to London twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ac3f20345bd8d70/6986a72f810bbb492bc93cd9/450375637.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Who Hates Nickelback Starts Campaign to Make Sure Band Doesn't Play in London > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 6, 2014 6:04 PM UTC  Members of Canadian rock band Nickelback Members of Canadian rock band Nickelback BAS CZERWINSKI/AFP—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 6, 2014 6:04 PM UTC **Correction appended, October 7, 2014** Nickelback doesn’t have any shows scheduled in London right now, and if one man gets his way, the much-maligned band will never have any shows in London again. Inspired by a recent [Tilt](http://blog.tilt.com/foo-fighters-play-tilt-enabled-rock-roll-miracle-show-rva/) campaign, that brought the Foo Fighters to Charlottesville, VA for a previously unscheduled gig, Craig Mandell has created a [_Tilt_ crowd-funding campaign](https://dontletnickelback.tilt.com/don-t-let-nickel-back/checkout/amount?reward=4043) to prevent Nickelback from returning to his city. The campaign, titled [“Don’t Let Nickel Back,”](https://dontletnickelback.tilt.com/don-t-let-nickel-back) hopes to discourage the Canadian band from playing in London through a barrage of emails. For every $1 donated to the cause, Mandell will send one email to Nickelback. A $5 donation gets you a “slightly more forceful email” while a $50 contribution “will result in an email to Nickleback with an attached mp3 of Nickelback’s music. This way, the band will hear their own music, and likely retire immediately, thereby ensuring the success of our campaign.” “Just imagine, thousands – perhaps tens of thousands of music lovers – all not witnessing an exclusive concert by Nickelback in London,” wrote Mandell. “It will be glorious.” Mandell states on the page that the campaign is not for his own profit. “All proceeds will go to charity,” the site says. “Or perhaps therapy for those who’ve been affected by the band.” (h/t [NME](http://www.nme.com/news/nickelback/80154)) _The original version of this story misidentified the crowd-funding platform. 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