Red Hot Chili Peppers Postpone Tour Due to Anthony Kiedis’s Foot Injuries

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been forced to postpone the start of their upcoming U.S. tour in order for frontman Anthony Kiedis to recover from multiple foot injuries.

On Sunday (January 8), the singer was seen hobbling and on crutches at a L.A. Lakers basketball game. Kiedis has suffered ongoing problems with foot fractures dating back to the Chili Peppers’ 2006 Stadium Arcadium tour. In August of 2011, he said, “I stayed out on tour with broken bones in my feet from jumping off the bass drum, which is kind of agonizing, and it led to me being in a bad state of mind.”

Kiedis recently underwent surgery to remove a crushed sesamoid bone and to correct a detached flexor tendon in his foot. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Tickets for the postponed dates will be honored at the rescheduled dates. The band is touring in support of their Grammy-nominated album, I’m With You.

* denotes the show is sold-out

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Blink-182 Postpone Tour to Work on New Album

Reunited punk-pop band Blink-182 have scrapped their entire U.K. and Ireland tour, according to an announcement on their website. Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker have chosen to continue recording their new album instead, according to NME.com.

“It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce our planned 2011 European summer tour has been rescheduled,” the band said in a statement. “When we booked the tour last year, we were confident that we would have the new album out before the summer. Turns out we were mistaken as the album is taking longer than we thought and won’t be out till later this year.”

The trio have chosen to postpone the tour until next summer, when they’ll be able to play their new tunes.

“We hoped we would have some new songs to play rather than do another ‘greatest hits tour’ which you all saw last summer. The three of us are working very hard to do what we set out to do when we re-formed, get a new Blink-182 album recorded.”

The band were set to play the T in the Park and Oxegen festivals this summer. There’s no word yet on if the Blink boys will be back for those events in 2012.

Blink-182 rescheduled tour dates:

Birmingham NIA (June 7, 2012 – moved from July 1, 2011)
London O2 Arena (June 8, 9, 2012 – moved from July 18, 19, 2011)
Dublin O2 Arena (June 12, 2012 – new date)
Belfast Odyssey Arena (June 13, 2012 – new date)
Manchester Evening News Arena (June 15, 2012 – moved from July 8, 2011)
Birmingham LG Arena (June 16 ,2012 – moved from July 15, 2011)
Sheffield Motorpoint Arena (June 17, 2012 – moved from July 7, 2011)
Newcastle Metro Radio Arena (June 19, 2012 – moved from July 12, 2011)
Glasgow S.E.C.C (June 20, 2012 – new date)
Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (July 10, 2012 – moved from July 16, 2011)
Nottingham Capital FM Arena (July 11, 2012 – moved from July 13, 2011)
Liverpool Echo Arena (July 12, 2012 – moved from July 4, 2011)

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