Kiefer Sutherland pulls US tour over low ticket sales: “I don’t think it’s fair”
Kiefer Sutherland has axed the US leg of his Love Will Bring You Home Tour due to “very low ticket sales”.
The musician and A Few Good Men actor was slated to embark on a US tour in support of his fourth studio album, Grey, set for release on May 29th. However, things weren’t shaping up as he’d hoped.
“With great disappointment, I am going to have to cancel the US leg of my tour due to very low ticket sales,” Sutherland wrote online concerning the shows, which would mark his first tour in the USA in seven years.
In the Instagram post, he added, “I don’t think it’s fair to the people who have bought tickets, or the venues, to play to half-empty houses.”
However, Sutherland is determined that the setback will not stop him from performing across North America in the future: I look forward to touring the United States again at a more suitable time,” he concluded.
Elsewhere, Sutherland shared his excitement about the upcoming release, noting on his website, “In many ways these songs mark a growth for me personally, as I wrote less about observations and more about personal feelings that I have been navigating in my own life.”
Sutherland is still set to perform in the UK. He will next appear at Glasgow’s Old Fruit Market on May 16th, before heading to Newcastle Upon Tyne, Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, Exeter, Bournemouth, Oxford, and Leeds.
Sutherland isn’t the first household name to cancel their tour due to ticket sales. Recently, chart-topping pop group The Pussycat Dolls cancelled their US tour after taking an “honest look at the North American run”.
Additionally, other artists such as Post Malone, Meghan Trainor, and Zayn Malik have all cancelled shows in America after a serious bout of what experts are calling “blue dot fever”.
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