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Gigs & Festivals
Frank Ocean erases live dates, is “sorry as fuck” about it
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 14 August 2012
Rapper Frank Ocean has said he’s “sorry as fuck” to have withdrawn from a number of his forthcoming live appearances, as include billings at this year’s V Festivals and Bestival plus a slot on Coldplay’s European tour, for no apparent reason.
A statement Ocean issued to Sweden’s Way Out West festival, which announced that Ocean wouldn’t be playing just hours prior to his set time, read: “Let me start by saying I feel like an asshole right now, but a tough decision had to be made in regard to my schedule over the next months”.
It ends: “Sorry as fuck, I’ll be back if you’ll have me”.
The cause of the cancellations is as yet unclear, and made even more so by Ocean’s walking off stage midway through a performance at Norwegian festival Øya over the weekend. Organisers said at the time that he’d lost his voice, despite The Music’s review of his four-track set claiming that: “all seemed to be shaping up excellently” prior to his abrupt exit.
