Holly Humberstone cancels European tour after member of touring party suffers “serious, life-threatening

The Grantham singer-songwriter shared the news on social media today (September 21), explaining that the emergency occurred yesterday morning as her tour bus arrived in Cologne.

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Humberstone went on to confirm that she had made the decision to cancel the remaining dates on the European run while the unnamed member of the touring party recovers.

The incident had already led Humberstone to postpone last night’s scheduled show at Bürgerhaus Stollwerck in Cologne. In a message shared at the time, she said the concert could not go ahead “due to illness within our touring team”, adding: “The wellbeing of my team has to be my number one priority.”.

The remaining dates affected are scheduled shows in Copenhagen tomorrow (September 22), Oslo (23), Stockholm (24), Hamburg (26), Berlin (27) and Munich (28).

Humberstone was also forced to postpone her September 15 show at Le Trabendo in Paris and at Amsterdam’s Paradiso the following day after being struck down with what she described as “some sort of flu”, which had left her with no voice.

The tour came in support of Humberstone’s second album ‘Cruel World’, which arrived in April. She announced the record at the beginning of the year alongside confessional first single ‘To Love Somebody’.

Speaking to NME around the album’s release, Humberstone reflected on the impact that years of touring had had on her, explaining that she needed to rediscover who she was away from life on the road.

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