JANE’S ADDICTION has canceled the rest of its U.S. tour after the onstage altercation in Boston that abruptly ended the band’s live performance.
The September 13 present at Chief Financial institution Pavilion got here to a sudden finish after singer Perry Farrell bumped Dave Navarro‘s shoulder together with his personal earlier than seemingly yelling on the guitarist. Navarro then positioned a hand between himself and Perry earlier than Farrell appeared to throw a punch at him. One other man then jumped between them, breaking apart the combat.
Earlier as we speak (Monday, September 16),JANE’S ADDICTION members Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins launched the next assertion through social media: “As a consequence of a unbroken sample of habits and the psychological well being difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, now we have come to the conclusion that now we have no selection however to discontinue the present US tour.
“Our concern for his private well being and security in addition to our personal has left us no various. We hope that he’ll discover the assistance he wants.
“We deeply remorse that we aren’t in a position to come by means of for all our followers who’ve already purchased tickets. We will see no answer that may both guarantee a secure atmosphere on stage or reliably enable us to ship an awesome efficiency on a nightly foundation.
“Our hearts are damaged. Dave, Eric and Stephen“.
A separate assertion posted on the JANE’S ADDICTION social media Monday morning reads: “To all of the followers, the band have made the tough choice to take a while away as a gaggle. As such, they are going to be cancelling the rest of the tour.” The announcement goes on to say that refunds for the cancelled dates will probably be “issued at your level of buy — or when you bought from a third-party resale website like StubHub, SeatGeek, and so on, please attain out to them direct.”
JANE’S ADDICTION‘s canceled 2024 tour dates:
Sep. 15 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
Sep. 18 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Sep. 20 – Rochester Hills, MI – Meadow Brook Amphitheater
Sep. 22 – Milwaukee, WI – BMO Pavilion
Sep. 24 – Chicago, IL – Byline Financial institution Aragon Ballroom
Sep. 26 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
Sep. 28 – Huntsville, AL – South Star Music Pageant
Sep. 29 – St. Louis, MO – Evolution Pageant
Oct. 02 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Oct. 04 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater
Oct. 08 – Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater
Oct. 09 – Portland, OR – Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Oct. 11 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort and On line casino
Oct. 13 – San Francisco, CT – The Masonic
Oct. 16 – Los Angeles, CA – YouTube Theater
On Saturday (September 13),Farrell‘s spouse Etty Lau Farrell offered a “first individual account” of what occurred in the course of the Boston live performance, writing in an Instagram submit that there had been “lots of pressure and animosity between the members” and the “dynamite was lit” that evening.
She went on to say that the altercation had been a fruits of Perry‘s “mounting” frustration as a result of “extraordinarily loud” quantity of the band’s taking part in, and that her husband felt that “his voice was being drowned out by the band.”
“Perry had been affected by tinnitus and a sore throat each evening,” she defined. “However when the viewers within the first row began complaining [to] Perry, cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry misplaced it.”
“The band began the music ‘Ocean [Size]’ earlier than Perry was prepared and did the depend off,” Etty continued. “The stage quantity was so loud at that time, that Perry could not hear [past] the increase and the vibration of the devices and by the top of the music, he wasn’t singing, he was screaming simply to be heard.”
Etty claimed that whereas Navarro had tried to maintain her husband “at arm’s size to de-escalate the scenario,” bassist Eric Avery “put Perry in a headlock and punched him within the abdomen thrice.” She mentioned a crew member was in a position to pull Avery away, and he “walked off to the entrance of the stage to apologize to [the] viewers for the present ending early.”
“Dave nonetheless seemed good-looking and funky in the midst of a combat,” Etty wrote. “Perry was a crazed beast for the subsequent half an hour — he lastly didn’t relax, however did break down and cried and cried.
“Eric, nicely he both did not perceive what de-escalation meant or took benefit of the scenario and received in just a few low cost pictures on Perry,” she added.
In a remark beneath her unique submit, Etty insisted that alcohol was not the actual challenge, although Perry was seen consuming from a bottle of wine at a few of the current concert events.
“Sadly, that bottle of wine is extra of a prop these days,” she wrote. “I’ve gotten indignant at him a number of instances, that he would go away an attractive bottle of wine 3/4 full on the stage, once I would’ve beloved a glass after the present.”
The Boston present was a part of JANE’S ADDICTION‘s co-headlining tour with LOVE & ROCKETS.
Navarro had missed JANE’S ADDICTION‘s excursions in 2022 and 2023 due to a battle with lengthy COVID. To fill Navarro‘s spot, the band introduced on QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and ex-RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.
Farrell admitted to the New York Put up that he missed Navarro in the course of the guitarist’s absence.
“I want I might have my pricey guitar participant round,” Farrell mentioned in September 2022. “[But] I dwell to convey leisure and artwork to the world. And no matter I can do to entertain you, to blow your thoughts, that is what I dwell for.”
In a current interview with Guitar World, Avery was not sure if JANE’S ADDICTION can be nonetheless standing in 2025.
“I nonetheless do not know if we’re a band that you just ever assume will probably be right here a yr from now,” he instructed the journal. “That being mentioned, yeah… there’s a revitalization and a reconnection. Let’s hope it lasts.”