Music promoters are scrambling to reschedule the tour dates of two bands among the uncertainty of COVID-19.
Guns N’ Roses and KISS were both expected to perform national runs in November, with venues including Rod Laver Arena and the MCG.
Andrew McManus, KISS’s long-time Australian tour promoter, revealed on Tuesday that he had no choice but to reschedule.
“I’m moving the Kiss tour dates. I have to,” McManus said in a statement.
“Within the current (Covid-safe) guidelines the government is purporting, most shows and tours will move back to 2022. There is no way you can run a tour properly at the moment.”
The KISS tour is looking to be pushed back to March, while promoters are discussing when to move the Guns N’ Roses tour.
Guns N’ Roses’ Australian tour promoter Paul Dainty made his own statement, saying that “no decision” had yet been made on the band’s 2021 tour.
Other promoters have confirmed that Australia will not be allowing any international acts to tour until at least next year.
This reshuffle comes as a parliamentary inquiry has called on the Victorian government to provide support and certainty for the events and tourism sectors, which have been some of the hardest hit by the pandemic.
Save Victorian Events spokesman Simon Thewlis said the sector had suffered losses of well over $10 Billion during the pandemic.
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Written by Jackson Miller
