Perry Farrell has grand ambitions for his ENIT fest, but

the nitty-gritty reality of putting on an all-night event is setting in. ENIT

representatives said yesterday that two of the six tour dates have been

canceled. Tomorrow's (Wed., Aug. 14) show at the Meadow near Cleveland is now

history, as is a show that was to have taken place on August 23rd at the

Calaveras County Fairgrounds (a couple of hours from San Francisco). The tour

will now begin on Saturday (Aug. 17) at the Garden State Art Center in Holmdel,

New Jersey. Bands performing include Porno For Pyros, Love and Rockets, and

Meat Beat Manifesto. Tour publicist Perry Serpa told the L. A. Times

that "mounting production costs due to local ordinances" led to the

cancellation of the Meadow show, while booking agent Adam Schneider told the

San Francisco Chronicle that the Calaveras show was canceled because it

would have been impossible to move the show to the next site--the Snow Valley

ski resort in the San Bernardino Mountains--in just 12 hours. "It has

absolutely nothing to do with ticket sales," said Schneider. "The honest truth

is that it's been such an unprecedented task to stage a touring all-night

festival that moves between sites that the scheduling and logistics have become

so great that it's taken us by surprise." But couldn't they just enlist the

help of some of the aliens expected to attend. Nevermind.