SOHN cancels upcoming UK tour due to low ticket sales: “It’s just a very tough time right now”

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SOHN has cancelled his forthcoming UK tour, citing low ticket sales and the current uncertainty surrounding the live music industry.The London artist, real name Christopher Taylor, had been due to embark on the tour in Glasgow on November 13, with the UK and Ireland leg of the ‘Trust’ tour wrapping up in London on November 19.Taylor announced over the weekend, however, that he has now been forced to cancel his upcoming UK dates.

The only exception is the London show, which will now take place at the Electric Ballroom on November 19.“I’ve been thinking about how best to communicate this and I thought the most respectful way is just to be as transparent as possible,” Taylor wrote in a statement on Instagram. “The bottom line is simply not enough tickets have been sold in the towns outside of London.

I’ve not played in most of these places before (or in a very long time) and we attempted to do a UK tour in good faith, but now it seems just too big a risk to try to play these shows.“You may already be aware that we are in a really difficult period for live music ticket sales – in my opinion there are many reasons.

After a couple of years of no live music so many acts are touring at the same time, I think in the boom years tickets became disrespectfully expensive, I think COVID got us used to staying at home, a lot of my audience probably became new parents (me included) and there is financial instability everywhere.