Jane’s Dependancy is taking a second to regroup after singer Perry Farrell was seen punching guitarist Dave Navarro at a Boston live performance on Friday.
The band issued a press release on its Instagram story Saturday, in accordance with CNN and Selection. “We need to lengthen a heartfelt apology to our followers for the occasions that unfolded final evening,” the band wrote, including that, in gentle of the scuffle, it had canceled its present in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Sunday.
Different exhibits, together with ones in Toronto on Wednesday and in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on Friday, stay on sale.
The band has not appeared to present any additional remark. On Sunday, Navarro posted a black-and-white Instagram photograph of himself with the caption, “Goodnight…”
USA TODAY has reached out to the band’s rep for remark.
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In accordance with live performance footage shared by followers, the band’s live performance in Boston was halted and got here to a dramatic finish when Farrell shoved and punched Navarro. Farrell was restrained by crew members and a person who seemed to be bassist Eric Avery as he threw punches and was pulled away from Navarro.
Jane’s Dependancy was on a reunion tour with their 4 unique members: Farrell, Navarro, Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins. The band is greatest identified for heading the choice rock wave within the late Eighties and early Nineties. Its hit songs embrace “Jane Says,” “Been Caught Stealing” and “Mountain Tune.”
Jane’s Dependancy live performance endsafter Perry Farrell punches guitarist Dave Navarro
Navarro exited the band in 2022 as a result of COVID-19 problems, with Farrell telling the New York Put up that he wished he “would have my expensive guitar participant round” for the band’s tour. Navarro returned for this reunion tour, which kicked off in August.
Jane’s Dependancy has bid farewell and reunited various occasions by way of the years. The band’s unique farewell tour launched the very first Lollapalooza in 1991.
Farrell is central to a buzzy Sundance documentary that premiered earlier this yr concerning the Chicago music competition aptly referred to as “Lolla.” He’s the principle voice of the three-episode doc, which is streaming now on Paramount+.
The movie particulars how Lollapalooza helped break bands like 9 Inch Nails (Trent Reznor shares a terrific story about their first set), Pearl Jam, and Inexperienced Day but additionally grew to become an emblem for promoting out.
Contributing: Jay Stahl and Brian Truitt