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Artist News
Slipknot not splitting, drummer not dead
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 27 August 2009
Slipknot have cancelled all remaining US tour dates in August and September. This follows the previously reported cancellation of shows last weekend after drummer Joey Jordison was admitted to hospital due to a “severe medical emergency”.
Although a statement on the website of the band’s label, Roadrunner, says that the cancellations are “due to illness”, it is not entirely clear if this relates to Jordinson’s condition, or if it is in fact the whole story. Nonetheless, the band have assured fans that they will still complete their October tour, with frontman Corey Taylor urging fans to hold onto tickets for the cancelled shows in Seattle and Kennewick “because we are coming back to do this”.
Of course, there’s nothing like a tour cancellation to spark rumours that a band are about to split up (except perhaps a greatest hits package, or an official statement insisting a band isn’t splitting). So bassist Paul Gray has taken to his MySpace blog to deny any such rumours, as well as any wilder rumours that Jordinson has died, but he did hint that there might be some other “personal issues” that were to blame for the cancellation.
He said: “We are very sorry we had to cancel this leg of the tour. As you know touring is our life. Getting in front of you guys and playing keeps this band alive, so it hurts us and much as you that we had to do this. There are personal issues in the band that need to be taken care of for us to continue touring. Let me emphasize Joey is not dead/dying, he is fine. We have been working hard for the last year and a half on the ‘All Hope Is Gone’ touring cycle and it catches up to you”.
He added: “We are not cancelling our October tour, the band is not breaking up, we are all alive. I am setting the record straight, if you don’t hear it from one of us in this band then it is bullshit. We are human and shit happens and that’s how life goes but we are making the best of it right now as should you”.
