Sam Fender 'Haemorrhaged' His Right Vocal Cord, Cancels Remaining 2024 Tour Dates
The 'Seventeen Going Under' star has been advised to take vocal rest and refrain from using his voice "for a prolonged length of time."
Sam Fender in Perth (Credit: Sam Mead)
Sam Fender has cancelled the remainder of his 2024 tour dates after he “haemorrhaged” his right vocal cord.
Overnight, the British rocker took to social media to share the remaining dates on his UK and Ireland tour: Glasgow’s OVO Hydro Arena on Tuesday, 17 December, and Newcastle’s Utilita Arena on Friday, 20 December, won’t go ahead.
At the time of writing, rescheduled dates for those shows haven’t been announced. Sam Fender is set to begin his 2025 tour at New York’s Webster Hall in February. His European and US tour and UK stadium tour (June 2025) are set to proceed.
No Australian tour dates have been announced yet, but considering how he sold out huge venues here in 2022 and 2023, we won’t be surprised when dates are eventually announced.
“Glasgow and Newcastle, as most of you know I've had the flu for a few days now,” Fender began the announcement that his final shows of the year had been cancelled. “Regardless of how compromised my voice was I did everything I could to get it in working order last night to put on the best show possible.”
He continued, “Today I've had an ENT scope/camera down my throat and sadly I've haemorrhaged my right vocal cord, I'm absolutely heartbroken. This has been the best tour so far, and all I want to do is get up and sing again for you all tonight.
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“I've had two separate ENT doctors say if I perform tonight, I'm risking lasting damage to my voice, and I have been advised to be on vocal rest and not use my voice for a prolonged length of time until it heals.”
Adding that he’s been “living like a monk” to protect his voice on this tour, the Seventeen Going Under star said the circumstances are “so unlucky.”
He concluded the post, “I'm so, so sorry to all of you who are on your way tonight. We're trying to figure out a way to reschedule for you all, more news soon.”
The tour dates were warm-up shows ahead of Fender releasing his highly anticipated third album, People Watching, via Polydor on Friday, 21 February.
Fender produced the forthcoming album alongside his bandmates Dean Thompson and Joe Atkinson, producer Markus Dravs and The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel. The War On Drugs will join him for his UK stadium shows in June 2025.
In a review of Fender’s show at Perth’s HBF Stadium last July, The Music’s Sam Mead wrote: “Fender manages to create these wonderful soundscapes that brilliantly build and build like a wave as each instrument is introduced until they crescendo into a glorious moment of bliss like something in an 80s coming-of-age movie.”
— Sam Fender (@samfendermusic) December 17, 2024
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