Sick Of It All cancel European tour dates as frontman Lou Koller reveals tumour in esophagus
nme.comSick Of It All have cancelled their European tour dates following frontman Lou Koller’s esophageal cancer diagnosis.Last month, the band had toured UK and Europe and were set to make stops in Belgium, Germany and Poland this summer, but have since cancelled the shows.The frontman of the New York punk band took to their official Instagram account to share a video explaining the tour cancellation and opened up his diagnosis.“What’s up everybody, Lou here.
As you may or may know, we had to cancel out full European tour this Summer. There’s some rumours going around as to why, and we’re here to set the record straight.
But we wanted to wait ’til we got all the information before making an announcement,” began Koller.He continued: “The reason it is canceled is because they found a tumour in my esophagus that goes into my stomach, and I’ll have to be getting treatment all summer.
And of course, full support of the band, as soon as they heard it they were like ‘forget the tour, just get healthy’.A post shared by SICK OF IT ALL (@sickofitallnyc)“You know we’re not happy about it, seriously.
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