After a particularly tough last couple of weeks for Reading and Leeds Festival, with previous Sunday Headliner Rage Against The Machine Pulling out at the last minute on medical advice, their situation is showing not many signs of improving. Last week, Italian Eurovision stars Måneskin and Louisville rapper Jack Harlow pulled out of their slots at the festival due to “scheduling conflicts”. It has now been revealed that the artists will be appearing at this year’s MTV VMAs, and since the announcement has gone public, R+L bosses have taken to their socials to burn a few bridges seemingly.
On August 9th, Måneskin released a statement explaining, “We are sad to announce that unfortunately due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we are no longer able to perform at Readings & Leeds festival this year. We love and miss the UK and all of our beloved UK fans and we’re absolutely gutted to no longer be able to play these shows.” Before concluding, “We’re really excited for the year to come and want to thank you for your support and patience, we’ll hopefully be back in the UK soon and we can’t wait to see you.” It seems like they were almost hoping we’d forgotten about this, to be honest. R+L then issued the above statement yesterday showing their disappointment. Harlow is yet to comment on the situation, but at this point, it basically speaks for itself.
Only 2 days into their rescheduled 2020 tour, Rage Against The Machine frontman, Zac de la Rocha sustained an injury on his leg at a show in Chicago. The band continued with Rocha performing mostly sat down, but now it has been announced that they will be cancelling their UK and EU leg of the tour to follow ‘medical guidance. Their headline slot at Reading and Leeds Festival fell within the cancelled dates, so yesterday the festival announced the new Sunday headliner. The 1975.
Statement from @RATM pic.twitter.com/urPCtGpYd6
— Rage Against The Machine ★ (@RATM) August 11, 2022
Matty Healey and co. are currently in the leadup to the release of their 5th LP, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, you can pre-order the album here. The announcement for their appearance at Reading and Leeds Festival comes together with a lengthy US tour set to take place in November. This, paired with 2 appearances at Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival, ends The 1975’s known tour dates. But that being said, we can essentially guarantee an announcement of a UK tour coming soon.
