It's been reported by a highly placed source that perhaps as many as half of the employees at the Slag venue have not been paid. At least one band says the promoters owe them money, as do some vendors.
Very sad, but even sadder is that all of the employees we spoke to found out via Facebook that they no longer have jobs. That's right; there were no phone calls or e-mails.
Now, we'll venture from hard facts to some speculation. Both Scott Michael and Chris Ewing are friends of John Elkington. Couldn't the Memphis mogul have headed off the Ewing lawsuit against Michael? Surely it's not good publicity.
Back to hard, cold reality, those who have ventured onto Inspiration Landing property this past week tell us that, aside from the music venue, there has been absolutely no sign of future construction.
Elkington once blamed an economic downturn for the failure of the Forge in Birmingham and Saddlebrook in Germantown. Will it be amazingly easy to blame the failure of IL on the double tap of COVID and a lawsuit?
