The Echo & the Bunnymen tour of Australia seems to be suffering from a rare mutated form of rock n’ roll mixomatosis with them blowing out shows at Brisbane’s Laneway Festival today (Friday 29th Jan) and Melbourne’s leg of the gig (Saturday 30th Jan). Apparently Ian MacCulloch missed his flight from London to Melbourne, supposedly due to his wife having a baby. We wish Mac, the missus and the newborn all the best.
Curiously, he split with wife Lorraine in 2003 (after whom 1984’s classic Ocean Rain was named) and he was certainly chasing a lot of young tail on their Australian tour the same year in the aftermath of the break up. We must assume he’s found love again and gotten married and made babies…Supposedly the remaining shows on the tour will go ahead but we aren’t holding our breath….
They have been replaced by Midnight Juggernaughts …..how exciting :(
