“The manager of The World Famous reached out to me because he is a fan of my music,” Hinckley told Newsweek.

On August 24, Hinckley announced his show at the World Famous Bar in Athens, Georgia. On Twitter, he shared a poster image that featured a graphic based on his 1981 mugshot, surrounded with flowers and leaves. The performance was scheduled for October 27.

“The owner of the bar was originally on board, but once I announced the show on my Twitter, they started receiving backlash,” said Hinckley. “That’s why they canceled, although they never gave me a reason for canceling.”

The former would-be assassin added that he was “being met with a cancel culture in the music business.”

Less than five hours after announcing the Georgia concert, he said on Twitter, “Athens just canceled. That makes 5 venues.”

Previous shows in Hinckley’s “Redemption Tour” were canceled at venues in New York, Chicago, Connecticut and Virginia.

Hinckley opened fire on March 30, 1981, as President Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. His .22 caliber revolver wounded Reagan, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, policeman Thomas Delahanty and Press Secretary John Brady, who became permanently paralyzed. Reagan spent 12 days in the hospital before he made a full recovery.

Hinckley said that he was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had an obsessive fixation. A jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982. He lived under psychiatric care until 2016, after which he was mandated to live with his mother under various court-ordered restrictions.

In June 2022, he was granted an unconditional release.

He has focused on music in recent years, announcing in January that he was seeking fellow musicians to join his new band. He runs a YouTube channel with 30,000 subscribers, where dozens of videos show him singing and playing the guitar.

Rock band DEVO, known for its 1980 hit “Whip It,” obtained permission from Hinckley to use part of a poem he had written in lyrics for the song “I Desire,” which appeared on the band’s 1982 album Oh, No! It’s DEVO. Hinckley has complained that he never received royalties for the song, although he was listed as the song’s co-writer alongside DEVO founders Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh.

Newsweek reached out to The World Famous bar for comment.