Morrissey has said the ‘only sensible solution seems to be the art of doing nothing’ after yet more tour dates were cancelled over the weekend.
The singer had been due to return to South America in time for live shows in Argentina and Brazil at the end of this month after a bout of food poisoning brought a tour of Chile to a premature end a few weeks ago, but these engagements will no longer take place due to an apparent lack of funding.
This follows a stop-start 2012/13 North American tour which was eventually cancelled after a series of illnesses caused constant disruption to those plans.
And, in a blog post on fansite True To You, this latest setback appears to have left Morrissey questioning his future.
“I am informed today that the projected tour of South America is snuffed out, thus euthanized – due, I’m reliably advised, to lack of funding,” Morrissey writes. “It’s quite easy to sell tickets, yet impossible to transport band and crew from F to G.”
“In a year when far too many disappointments have been buried this really is the last of many final straws, and I am not alone in feeling this. The future is suddenly absent, and my apologies are now so frequent as to be somewhat ridiculous, and it is I who apologize because no one else would bother.”