Foo Fighters Cancel Tour Dates Following Death of Taylor Hawkins

Foo Fighters have canceled their upcoming tour dates following the loss of life of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins at age 50.

“It’s with nice disappointment that Foo Fighters verify the cancellation of all upcoming tour dates in mild of the staggering lack of our brother Taylor Hawkins,” the band wrote in an announcement. “We’re sorry for and share within the disappointment that we cannot be seeing each other as deliberate. As an alternative, let’s take this time to grieve, to heal, to tug our family members shut and to recognize all the music and reminiscences we have made collectively.”

The group’s 2022 tour would have marked their first in depth North American run following the 2021 LP Drugs at Midnight. They performed in numerous stay settings all through final 12 months, together with the reopening present at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard.

Foo Fighters had been touring in South America when Hawkins died — his final present took place March 20 at Lollapalooza Argentina. The drummer was present in his resort room in Bogota, Columbia, the place the band was getting ready for a gig.

Bogata’s Secretariat of Well being issued a statement noting that an ambulance responded to an emergency name that Hawkins was struggling chest pains. An early toxicology report said that the musician had 10 completely different psychoactive substances in his system — together with marijuana, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids — however stopped in need of categorizing his loss of life as an overdose. A precise reason behind loss of life has but to be decided.

Following Hawkins’ loss of life, tributes arrived from collaborators and admirers throughout the rock panorama: Rush referred to as Hawkins “such an extremely constructive supply of music, vitality and love, and a real artist to his very core,” whereas Ozzy Osbourne remembered Hawkins as “a really nice particular person and an incredible musician.”