Gorillaz abruptly cancel their US tour in an e-mail to ticketholders ‘attributable to scheduling conflicts and circumstances past our management.’
Gorillaz The Getaway 2023 Tour has been canceled solely three weeks after the band introduced it. The information broke in a Ticketmaster email update issued to followers who had already bought tickets. The digital group helmed by Damon Albarn would have performed 4 dates throughout the USA in Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, and Boston from September 10 to 19, with Kaytranada, Lil Yachty, and Remi Wolf having been scheduled to affix the band on the trek.
“Attributable to scheduling conflicts and circumstances past our management, the beforehand introduced Gorillaz exhibits in September have been canceled,” Ticketmaster wrote in an e-mail to ticket purchasers. “Refunds might be issued mechanically at your level of buy and might be processed as shortly as doable; there may be nothing additional so that you can do right now. Please enable for as much as 30 days for the refund to course of.”
“We’re gutted not to have the ability to carry out for you this yr,” Gorillaz wrote in an announcement of their very own to their followers, included within the Ticketmaster e-mail. “We have been actually wanting ahead to it, and we hope to get again to you once more as quickly as we will. We love our Gorillaz household, and we will’t wait to see you once more.”
Gorillaz most not too long ago did back-to-back performances at Coachella in April, and in 2022 launched into a World Tour that includes Damon Albarn accompanied by a 14-piece dwell band, with a number of visitor performers. The 4 canceled exhibits have been marketed as the ultimate US dates in help of the newest Gorillaz album, Cracker Island, launched earlier this yr.
In the meantime, Damon Albarn has been fairly busy with the elder of his bands, Blur, whose new album, The Ballad of Darren, is due July 21. Albarn additionally wrote a lot of the new Blur album whereas out touring with Gorillaz final yr, main some followers to take a position {that a} Blur US tour may be on the horizon. The band’s first headlining present in eight years kicks off at Dublin’s Malahide Fort on June 24.