Going on a tour to perform your music can be an arduous, ill-befalling, and stressful path for some. Due to these issues, bands and performers around the globe will sometimes have to cancel a tour due to serious, or simple, issue that arises (think Morrissey, or more recently, Marilyn Manson). Now, as Pitchfork has taken note, another gorup has had to cancel a tour due to serious circumstances.
Fever Ray, in a recent post, has rightly decided to cancel all upciming shows on tour due to health reasons. Cancellations also include the performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival Paris. Frontwoman Karen Dreijer, on twitter, wrote a note regarding the cancellation of the tour:
Many of you know already that I’ve been struggling with general anxiety and panic attacks for a long time. For seven years I did not enter the stage, for five years I did not enter an airplane. It is a disorder that always lurks in the shadows that I have had to work carefully with and around, and that I never really know when it will strike or how much it will affect me. I am very thankful for the past seven months, that I have been able to tour and to meet you wonderful and amazing people. The last month though has been rough and my anxiety has started to escalate. I will now have to take a break from touring to take care of myself and restore my health. We are canceling the forthcoming shows this autumn. It is a difficult decision because I love my band and my crew, and I am so grateful for the love we have received from all of you while when doing this show. Hope to see you soon.
In a day and age when mental illnesses are being taken more seriously, Dreijer has shed a new light on an already damning disorder. Some have taken to say that anxiety and panic attacks can be taken care of by “getting over it,” however, as people who suffer from this detail, like Dreijer, anxiety can be just as crippling as any other disease, which can result in blackouts, bodily shut-down amongst other things.
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