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“As much as this pains me to not see you at this time, I’m just not able to put myself through that mental stress.”įor casual music fans unaware of the music industry’s financial, perpetually rusty nuts and bolts, the news that Simz lacked the scratch for an 11-city tour - a decently substantial run of dates, if not quite a full country-spanning schedule - had to have been shocking.
for a month would leave me in a huge deficit,” she said at the time. “Being an independent artist, I pay for everything encompassing my live performances out of my own pocket and touring the U.S. But Simz’s statement explaining the canceled dates gestured to even tougher struggles for touring artists on the horizon. tour this past April, the news initially resembled a drop in an increasingly miserable and disappointment-filled bucket. rap sensation Little Simz announced that she was nixing her U.S. All it takes is a positive rapid test on an artist’s team, or travel-prohibitive supply-chain issues, or a mental-health crisis, or a straight-up lack of funding to derail an entire run of shows.Įver since “things opened up” again (was anything ever really closed to begin with?), showgoers and entertainers alike have practically grown numb to intermittent waves of gig cancellations.
Anyone within spitting distance of live music over the past two years - from road-warrior musicians to anxious ticket-holders and every behind-the-scenes toiler in between - has been plenty aware of the precariousness surrounding tour schedules in general. Touring was a minefield before COVID the pandemic just threw a few thousand more mines onto the field.
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