{"id":126722,"date":"2025-11-09T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:13:08","slug":"lorde-cancels-luxembourg-concert-after-ruthless-food-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126722\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde cancels Luxembourg concert after \u2018ruthless\u2019 food poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

She was set to play at Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette on Sunday night, her first ever show in the small European country and French singer Oklou\u2019s only opening date.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease know that if there was ANY way I could pull it off, I\u2019d be out there,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

At this stage, the artist said she hopes to reschedule the show for a later date.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are actively working with the promoter on rescheduling so hold on to your tickets for now – refunds will be offered if the new date\u2019s no good for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiwi ZM Host Cam Mansel interviewed several disappointed fans outside the venue.<\/p>\n

One concertgoer said they were \u201cdevastated\u201d about the postponement.<\/p>\n

Many had waited hours to see the Royals singer, with another pair telling Mansel they had waited a staggering 15 hours before hearing of the cancellation. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not from here so it\u2019s expensive to drive here,\u201d one of the girls said, going on to emotionally wish the star a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n

Lorde will be playing two shows in New Zealand early next year, performing in Auckland on February 11 and in Christchurch on February 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was set to play at Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette on Sunday night, her first ever show in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,28721,25759,29804,156,6446,1888,564,3192,32586,88067,111,139,69,88069,42911,88068,208,6915,377],"class_list":["post-126722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-cancels","tag-concert","tag-date","tag-entertainment","tag-european","tag-first","tag-food","tag-illness","tag-lorde","tag-luxembourg","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-poisoning","tag-postponed","tag-ruthless","tag-tour","tag-ultrasound","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}