Emo rock overlords Thirty Seconds To Mars were set to tour Australia next month in support of their new album Love Lust Faith + Dreams, but the Jared Leto-fronted three-piece have today announced that they have postponed their tour until March 2014.
The band’s four-date arena tour was to begin in Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday 10th August before rolling through Sydney, Brisbane, and finishing up at Perth’s Challenge Stadium. A statement from The Frontier Touring Company today however confirms that the band have canned the August dates and will be returning early next year. A statement from the band reads:
It is with a heavy heart and deep regret that we must reschedule the four shows in Australia. A member of the band will be undergoing a medical procedure and the time will be used to address this. Please know we are absolutely devastated and hope for your understanding and patience. Our sincerest and deepest apologies.
We are rescheduling for March 2014 as these are the earliest the dates are available. Thank you for your faith, for your support, and for standing by us no matter what.
We ask you please respect our privacy through challenging times like these. – Thirty Seconds To Mars”
The August headline tour was to be the band’s first Australian shows since appearing at Soundwave 2011, a tour the band look upon fondly as frontman Jared Leto recalled in a video interview with Tone Deaf this past May. “Soundwave was great, we still talk about that tour to this day,” Leto enthused. “We had a blast. I feel like we connected, and something incredible happened.”
“Festivals are fun, but there’s nothing like playing your own show. The intimacy, the connection, is unparalleled,” Leto continued. “The most special thing that can happen isn’t about lasers, or fireworks, it’s really the connection that you make with the audience, night after night. That’s the thing that’s the most important.”
Leto also discussed the feeling of launching their single ‘Up In The Air’, quite literally, by sending the song into space via a rocket. The NASA-backed tune was lifted (no pun intended) from the band’s new album Love Lust Faith + Dreams. Produced by Steve Lillywhite (U2, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths), the band’s fourth studio album was their first since 2009’s This Is War.
The four-year gap was due to a massive legal battle between Thirty Seconds To Mars and their label, Virgin Records, as chronicled in the Jared Leto-directed documentary Artifact, which is screening as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) this August. The band were scheduled to make an appearance at one of the film screenings, as The Music reports, but given their postponed Australian Tour due to a “medical procedure” it is not yet confirmed whether this appearance has also been cancelled.
Thirty Seconds To Mars 2013 Australian Tour
Frontier Members pre-sale via www.frontiertouring.com/thirtysecondstomars
2pm AEST Tue 21 May to 2pm AEST Wed 22 May
General public on sale from 9am local time, Mon 27 May 2013
Sat 10 Aug, Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena, (All Ages)www.ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
Sun 11 Aug, Sydney | Entertainment Centre, (All Ages)www.ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
Tue 13 Aug, Brisbane | Entertainment Centre, (All Ages)www.ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
Fri 16 Aug, Perth | Challenge Stadium, (All Ages)www.ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
