It’s already been an ‘interesting’ year for Andrew Stockdale and his band of merry ring-ins, losing drummer number two in April after a secret gig at Ding Dong in Melbourne, and now they’ve scuppered their whole European Summer Tour, which featured support slots with Kiss in Germany, the Oxegen Festival in Ireland, the Download Festival in England and T in the Park festival in Scotland, not to mention a heap of dates on the continent. They began cancelling them last Friday, and by last night it was announced that the whole tour was off. A statement released to bemused festival promoters in Europe read “We are sorry to announce that Wolfmother have been forced to cancel its full European tour for June and July. Due to medical reasons, Andrew Stockdale, Wolfmother’s lead singer is unable to fly.”
Supposedly Stockdale is hoping to be well enough to play US dates in August. While wishing Andrew well for a speedy recovery from his ‘illness’, we seriously hope it wasn’t a case of his band quitting on him again. Not renowned as the easiest person to work with, a two month break would appear to be the right amount of time to rehearse a new line-up of session musos…
