Help Cancer Bats replace their equipment that was stolen

Hey Hey. This is Cancer Bats.

On April 21st after a great show in Indianapolis we woke up to the harsh reality that our van, trailer, merch and gear were all stolen from the hotel that we were staying at. Luckily our van was recovered, but the thieves made off with all our equipment, merchandise, and some personal items. They even stole the catalytic converter off our van. Major bummer and only 4 days into a full month tour in the United States.

We have been a band touring all over the world for 20 yrs now. The fact that this is the first time this has happened to us is truly amazing. We have our health and shows to play and a van to get us there and we are grateful for all of that. But in this robbery we lost a lot of equipment that we hold near and dear to our hearts. Equipment that helped write a lot of our songs. Stuff that has been customised by us over the years. Gear that is not easily replaceable.

We also lost a large order of merchandise. We had ordered enough to make sure that we had plenty for all 27 shows we had on this tour. We only had played 4 so we had a lot of merch in that trailer. (luckily the LPs were in the van and for some reason the thieves didn't want those bad boys. Total losers!)

We know that these gofundme campaigns can be a little kooky and we don't want to get more money than we need to replace our equipment. We do have some insurance that will help us out but we are unsure how much will be covered. We are estimating replacing everything will cost us about $30,000 CAN Once this tour is over and we can replace all the stolen gear and find out what insurance will give us if there is left over money we plan to donate the remaining money to get good quality musical instruments to kids living in hard to reach northern communities in Canada.

Stolen Equipment

2009 white Gibson Flying V

2010 red Gibson Flying V

2x Peavey T40 Bass Guitars

1970 Traynor Custom Special

Wounded Paw Siege Engine head

Hiwatt 100w in road case

Orange pedal baby 100w

Marshall 1960 4x12

8x10 Traynor bass cab

2 x Shure Wireless Transmitters / Tuner. 4 x wireless Packs

2 x Enki guitar case

fuzzrocious overdrive pedal x 2

Electro-Harmonix phaser pedal

hush pedal

Dispatch maker reverb pedal

Cry baby wah pedal

2 x ABY pedal

Ernie Ball Expression Pedal

Radial JDI

Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple drum kit “silver sparkle” 24x14 - 18x16 - 16x15 - 13x9 in hard shell cases

1 x Ludwig 14x6.5 LM402 Supraphonic chrome, blue olive badge, modern. In SKB case with the name Allan Harding and a 780 phone number on it. 42 strand wires and Evans HD DRY drum head with set list written on it.

1 x Mapex steel black panther snare in bag case

SKB hardware case with

Yamaha hardware:

2 x CS-865 boom stands

1 x HS-850 hi hat stand

1 x SS-850 snare stand

1 x DS-840 throne

1 x CL-945LB Tom arm

2 x Mapex boom stands

1 x Tama double kick Iron Cobra Case with AWAH written in sharpie on it.

1 x Tama 900 speed cobra.

1 x Tama 600 limited edition gold speed cobra

Ludwig Red Atlas molded cymbal bag with backpack straps.

1 x Paiste Signature 22” dimensions wild ride (rare)

1 x 14” zildjian new beat hi hats (modern)

1 x 14” zildjian new beat hi hats (80’s)

1 x22” Sabian HH session Todd Sucherman signature Ride

1 x 21” Sabian AAX xplosion ride

1 x 20” Sabian AAX Heavy Crash

1 x 18” Sabian AAX xplosion China

1 x buttery soft vintage leather stick bag full of ProMark 5B rebound sticks

A ton of extra strings, picks, cables, sticks and drums heads.

Massive thanks to anyone who took the time to check this out. If you have a spare couple bucks and can donate that would mean the world to us!!

Much love

Liam, Jaye, Jackie, Al, & Mike