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24.03.2023 - 21:59 / nme.com
Death Cab For Cutie have cancelled most of the shows on their current UK tour due to illness.Earlier this week, the band’s gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow were called off due to frontman Ben Gibbard catching a cold that affected his vocal cords. Now, Death Cab For Cutie have confirmed that the show that was meant to be taking place in Manchester tomorrow night (March 25) will no longer be happening.The band posted an extended explanation for the cancellations to their Instagram written by Gibbard.“Dear Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester;“On behalf of the entire band, please accept our sincere apologies for cancelling our shows in your cities.
We flew halfway across the world with the intent of playing music for you guys and it absolutely breaks our hearts to be unable to do so. We also think you deserve more of an explanation than merely ‘illness’,” Gibbard began.“Due to a number of factors outside of our team’s control (the amount of competition for venues post-covid, currency fluctuations, inflation etc.), we knew this Euro/UK tour was going to leave us little margin for something going wrong.
We knew that even more than during normal times, we would be in perpetual motion and enjoy very few days off. We accepted the risk because the reward would be playing music for you guys.“Three shows in, I caught a cold that attacked my vocal cords.
On more occasions than I’d like to admit, I was backstage mere minutes before our set time wrestling my voice to open up. And thankfully in pretty much every case it did.
Until it didn’t.”A post shared by Death Cab for Cutie (@deathcabforcutie)He continued: “Some of you who attended the Birmingham gig may have noticed something was off with me. I was incredibly frustrated that my voice
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Death Cab For Cutie are set to resume their UK tour after cancelling a series of dates due to illness.Earlier this week, the band’s gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow were called off due to frontman Ben Gibbard catching a cold that affected his vocal cords. Then, Death Cab For Cutie confirmed that the show that was meant to be taking place in Manchester last night (March 25) will no longer be happening.But the band have now taken to Instagram to confirm that all three of their remaining shows, starting in Brighton tomorrow (March 27) before heading to London the following two nights, will now go ahead.The band wrote: “Tour will continue tomorrow in Brighton at Dome and in London at Roundhouse on Tuesday and Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday.
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