Jane’s Addiction cancels Denver date, rest of tour, after onstage fight
Sep 16, 2024
Jane’s Addiction has canceled its Oct. 2 concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in the wake of a dramatic onstage fight last week.
Refunds for the band’s Denver show — as well as all dates on the now-canceled tour — will be available at the point of purchase, the band wrote on its social media accounts.
“The band have made the difficult decision to take some time away as a group,” members posted on Instagram Monday morning. “As such they will be cancelling the remainder of the tour.”
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Fan videos show singer Perry Farrell yelling at then lunging at guitarist Dave Navarro on stage during a concert in Boston on Friday. Farrell then takes a swing, after which onstage personnel jump in to break up the melee.
Farrell, who founded the Lollapalooza music festival, was later said to have been upset that his vocals were getting lost in the band’s overall volume.
“Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night after night,” Farrell’s wife, Etty Lau, wrote in an Instagram post afterward. “He felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.”
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Dave Navarro and the band then released its own statement Monday, saying they couldn’t in good conscience continue with the shows.
“Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour,” he wrote. “Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative. We hope that he will find the help he needs. We can see no solution that would either ensure a safe environment on stage or reliably allow us to deliver a great performance on a nightly basis.”
The band’s “Imminent Redemption” reunion tour started in early August and had 15 dates left, including a show in Connecticut on Sunday night that was also canceled, according to the Associated Press.
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