The Murder Capital will no longer tour across North America this fall.
The Irish punk band said on Tuesday they canceled their upcoming shows in the United States and Canada, which are part of the “Blindness World Tour ‘25.”
“With heavy hearts, we have to cancel our tour this autumn due to unforeseen financial challenges and the ongoing travel uncertainties,” The Murder Capital wrote in a statement on X.
“This is a bitter pill to swallow. We hope you know how much we wanted to be out there playing these shows for ye all,” the band wrote. “Thank you to all our fans that bought tickets, we appreciate your support and can’t wait to come back as soon as the time is right. Sending you all the love in these strange times.”
The band previously had concerts scheduled in multiple major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., Boston and New York City. The Murder Capital still plans on playing shows this summer in Europe.
This is the second time The Murder Capital has axed shows this year. The band canceled several shows in Germany due to the fact that their set design included a Palestinian flag.
“We pulled into Berlin this morning, we had no idea that we weren’t allowed to fly this flag here today,” frontman James McGovern said while addressing fans about their Berlin show.
“We discussed it for an hour at length, what we should do, we came to the decision that we were not going to take the flag off the stage. That was a decision pretty easily made,” McGovern said. “To us, this isn’t just a political statement, it’s a humanitarian statement. We’ve been saying that in interviews for the whole time that we’ve been speaking about it as people. It’s not all about politics, it’s about people who are dying and being slaughtered every day, and that’s happening right now.”
“So, for us as a band who has had this flag on their stage for countless shows now, it would be the wrong thing for us to do to take it off the stage just so that the venue is kept happy. We don’t agree with that,” the singer concluded.
The Murder Capital formed in Dublin, Ireland in 2018. The band has released three studio albums, including their chart-topping sophomore album, “Gigi’s Recovery.”
Some of the band’s most popular songs include “Don’t Cling To Life,” “Ethel” and “More Is Less.”
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