Alex Turner, frontman with Arctic Monkeys, is suffering from “acute laryngitis” and the band have been forced to cancel an open-air concert in Dublin on Tuesday.
His condition could affect his ability to perform the group’s Glastonbury headline slot on Friday evening, though it is currently scheduled to go ahead.
In a statement on social media, the band said they were extremely sorry to cancel the concert at Dublin’s Marlay Park, adding: “Alex is suffering from acute laryngitis and, following medical advice, has been ordered to rest.” Ticketholders for the Dublin concert will have their orders refunded within six days.
The band are due to play the final concert on the UK run of their current world tour in Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park on Sunday, before continuing the tour with 15 dates across Europe, then legs in North America and Mexico, until mid-October.
The tour, coming off the back of seventh studio album The Car, has recently visited a string of major UK venues including London’s Emirates Stadium and two homecoming concerts in Sheffield’s Hillsborough Park.
In a five-star review of the opening night in Bristol, Guardian reviewer Huw Baines described “a storm of rock music that’s as surprising as it is thrilling in its brutish simplicity” in its opening half, giving way to performances from The Car “suggesting that these new songs can be muscular stadium-fillers all on their own”.
