Mötley Crüe are currently on the final dates of their Australian Monster Tour with co-headliners KISS, but following on from news that the band plans to call it quits for good after they complete one more studio album, there’s more ill news for fans of the veteran hair metal act.

The quartet were forced to abandon their set at Sydney’s Allphones Arena early, after frontman Vince Neil walked off stage on Sunday 10th March suffering from severe pain, as the Sunshine Coast Daily reports.

The 52-year-old singer had been feeling ill from the last couple of days says Allen Kovac, the band’s manager, and cut the band’s set early to depart the stage from intense kidney pain. After the performance, Neil collapsed and was rushed to hospital and was diagnosed with kidney stones and prepped for immediate surgery to remove them.

After undergoing treatment on Monday morning, Neil took to twitter to assure his fans that he was recovering from his health scare.

The frontman also wrote his praise for the hospital and venue staff, “Huge thank you to all the paramedics at the All Phones Arena, the ambulance paramedics, the nurses, doctors and Staff.”

As The Herald Sun points out, bassist Nikki Sixx also updated Mötley Crüe fans on the situation, writing:

Hey guys, I just woke here in Sydney. As many have heard we had to cut our set short by 4 songs last night due to Vince be in severe pain on stage… He was doubled over on his dressing room floor 5 minutes till show time and was told by the promoter to not even play but Vince said he couldn’t do that to the fans. I’ve seen Vinnie go onstage with broken bones, his voice completely blown out and torn ligaments but he never ever cancels. Just like an athlete you sometimes have to play through the pain but last night it became to excruciating.”

Neil is now recovering from surgery, and has been given the clear by doctors to fulfil the two final dates of the Monster Tour tonight in Brisbane and this Saturday at the Virgin Australia Stadium in Mackay. “Doc says I should have a full recovery and be back onstage for the Brisbane show tomorrow,” Neil tweeted yesterday. “Thanks to my bandmates and crew for your support!”

Manager Alan Kovac also sung the frontman’s praises, “in nearly 20 years of managing Motley Crue, I can’t recall a show the band has cancelled,'” he said, confident that the tour would go ahead unimpeded by Neil’s surgery.

In related news, Sixx also recently revealed that Mötley Crüe is planning a permanent split in the not-too-distant future. The 54-year-old told of the band’s plans to work on a new album and a potential soundtrack to the movie adaptation of their bestselling autobiography and essential music fan read, The Dirt: Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band.

Following that, the band will hang up their instruments for good after doing a “farewell tour… We’ll be back in Australia and, ah, that’ll be it.”

“I can honourably say, ‘We did it our way and we’re never coming back’,” added the bassist, noting that unlike other big name acts that cash in on the farewell tag only to reform again (like, current tourmates KISS for instance), Sixx says the Mötley Crüe farewell tour would be final.

“It’s important that when you do a farewell tour that people understand that when you put a bullet in the back of the horse’s head, and it goes down, it’s not a plastic bullet it’s a fucking shotgun blast,” said Sixx. “You know, blow its fucking brains out, it’s never coming back. It has to [be that way].”

“It’s the only way I can look at myself in the mirror and do a farewell tour,” he continued. “I’ll leave you with this: when you go and see a great fucking movie and it ends and you go, ‘Fuck!’ like, you walk out and you go, ‘That was amazing! That blew my mind!’ It’s not like, ‘That blew my mind and, um, maybe there’ll be a sequel to it’.”

KISS & Mötley Crüe 2013 Australian Tour Dates & Tickets

Tuesday March 12
BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
Bookings through ticketek.com.au & 132 849

Saturday March 16
VIRGIN AUSTRALIA STADIUM, MACKAY
Bookings through ticketmaster.com.au &136 100

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