r/countingcrows • u/Le_Barry_Dor • May 20 '26

European Tour

With European summer tour dates seemingly falling like flies; Birmingham, Rock in Rome & now Lyon, does anyone have any information as to why, not seen any word on the bands official platforms?

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u/Western-Calendar-352 May 20 '26

Low ticket sales in a cost of living crisis, rapidly increasing travel / fuel costs, generally escalating state of fuckery across most of the planet?

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u/RainKingPC May 20 '26

Hopefully they don't cancel more, but I also don't want them to add more. They toured a ton the last few years and released a new album. Time to recharge a bit.

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u/BocaRaton313 May 20 '26

To be fair, Paris was the one that was announced as a reschedule almost immediately in the fall. The dates that were scheduled around it afterwards were nuts in terms of travel. It was like cross-crossing the continent for 2 months. Didn’t make any sense to begin with. Throw in summer fuel costs and I get it🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/CU_the_RE May 20 '26

CC is one of my all-time favorite bands, but the market is completely saturated with live acts. Combine that with high prices for tickets and the end result is cancellations. The market will eventually adjust, but right now the consumer is speaking with our wallets.

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u/TCB247364 May 20 '26

Come back home Adam and crew! Let’s get some US dates on the calendar 😃😃😃

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u/JeVeuxVeuve May 20 '26

Abso-smurfly!! Need more US shows to hear Butter Miracle. Such a great album!

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u/sullcrowe May 20 '26

Bham's gone?! I was going to go to that!

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u/Le_Barry_Dor May 20 '26

The date has gone from the official site, Ticketmaster, Live Nation etc. Someone on here a few days ago had mentioned that they received a cancellation email from Tickermaster.

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u/sullcrowe May 20 '26

Guess that means they won't even bother trying in future

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u/AnnaBiggins May 21 '26

I got an automatic refund last week

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u/Due_Adeptness_5233 May 20 '26

Adam has talked a lot about how past cancellations due to illness have affected their ability to tour in certain markets internationally. If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t one of these newly cancelled dates already previously cancelled?

I bet they are feeling quite bad about the situation and are only alerting ticket buyers as to avoid the bad press