In what’s believed to be a music business first, the Steve Miller Band has cited local weather change-driven climate disasters because the impetus for canceling its 2025 live performance tour.
The band made the announcement late Wednesday in a press release shared on their official web site and social media platforms.
“You make music with your instincts. You live life by your instincts. Always trust your instincts… The Steve Miller Band has cancelled all of our upcoming tour dates,” the assertion learn.
“The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band, and the crew unacceptable,” it continued. “So… You can blame it on the weather… The tour is cancelled.”
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Previous to Wednesday’s announcement, the Steve Miller Band had been slated to kick off the tour in Bethel, New York, on Aug. 15. The 31-show trek would have concluded Nov. 8 in Anaheim, California.
The band didn’t share plans to reschedule any of its reveals, however added of their assertion: “Don’t know where, don’t know when… We hope to see you all again.”
As Selection identified, the tour often is the first to ever be canceled because of excessive climate as a complete, quite than a single occasion.
On social media, many followers applauded the band’s determination.
“There’s not much to celebrate right now and this man knows it,” one individual wrote on Instagram. “Our country has tilted way off balance and if we don’t stand up, speak out and save it, no concert tours will be the least of our worries.”
Added one other: “This is so responsible, and anyone that disagrees is irresponsible.”
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Others, nevertheless, have been extra important, suggesting the band had different causes for scrapping their reveals.
“What a joke. If this is a real reason why are you the only band/touring act to cancel a tour right now?” one individual wrote. Added one other: “Somehow all the other bands are managing. Maybe tour in the winter?”
Fashioned in San Francisco within the late Sixties, the Steve Miller Band stays a staple on traditional rock radio due to era-defining hits like 1973’s “The Joker,” 1976’s “Fly Like an Eagle” and 1982’s “Abracadabra.” Frontman Steve Miller was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2016, 5 years after the discharge of the band’s most up-to-date studio album, “Let Your Hair Down.”
Whereas the Steve Miller Band is perhaps the primary to cancel a whole tour because of excessive climate, artists like Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran have additionally confronted weather-related challenges on their current excursions. Many music business specialists imagine the impression of local weather change on concert events and different dwell performances, notably these held outdoor, will proceed to rise within the years forward.
“When I first joined Reverb, probably one out of every 10 acts we worked with would have at least one weather cancellation when they went on tour,” Lara Seaver, director of tasks on the music sustainability firm Reverb, informed Rolling Stone in 2024. “Now pretty much every artist we work with has a weather incident. The increase and severity is increasing.”
