Glass Animals have cancelled both their Mad Cool and NOS Alice sets due to illness.
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Frontman David Bailey said he was “gutted” to cancel the shows but had no option due to issues with his “vocal cords”.
He wrote: “Gutted to say we have to cancel our shows tomorrow and the following day in Madrid and Lisbon. I absolutely hate cancelling shows, but my vocal cords have had it.”
He continued: “I took steroids to bring down the swelling [for] the last two shows but it doesn’t seem to be doing theatric anymore and I’ve been recommended to take a few days to rest them so it doesn’t turn into something worse.
“We were so looking forward to these shows, but we’ll be back asap. I’m so sorry again.”
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— Glass Animals (@GlassAnimals) July 5, 2022
Earlier this week, Glass Animals called out British Airways after the band’s music equipment was misplaced while in transit.
For over a week, the band have been without vital music making equipment, leading them to miss deadlines. Despite frontman Bailey calling out the airlines in a series of tweets, the equipment has still not been returned.
Recently, Glass Animals also teamed up with The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. for a new version of ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)’.
The original version of the song was released back in September and added as a bonus track to Glass Animals’ 2020 album ‘Dreamland’.
“EXCEPTIONALLY excited to announce a collab w/ the one and only Albert Hammond Jr.!!” Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley said in a statement on Twitter. “We wrote and recorded a whole new massive exploding wig-out outro. Grew up listening to Albert’s records, and learning his guitar parts was a huge part of how I learned guitar myself.
“Anyway – a dream,” he added. “Thank u so much albert!!”
Hammond Jr. said of the collaboration: “I met David over Zoom and we spoke of coffee and Jetway. Two things I still owe him. I was hoping we would write a song one day, but being so far from each other and mid-pandemic it didn’t seem likely. Then, out of the blue, he sent me ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk…’
“I knew exactly what I needed to do. I got some distortion and went to work. David, thanks for having me – to many more things to come.”
