British rock star Morrissey won\u2019t perform a concert in Valencia after festivities in the Spanish city kept him from getting a proper night\u2019s rest, the former frontman of The Smiths said.<\/p>\n
A statement posted on Morrissey\u2019s website on the morning of the concert said that the \u201cscheduled show in Valencia has been rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Morrissey arrived in Valencia after a two-day drive from Milan, but he was disturbed during the night by the festival that included, the statement said, \u201cloud techno singing (and) megaphone announcements\u201d that were audible from inside his hotel room.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis experience has left Morrissey in a catatonic state,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
In another short post on his website, the singer said his night was an \u201cindescribable hell\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n
The website added in bold print that \u201cThe show is not cancelled. Circumstances render the show impossible\u201d, making it unclear if it will be rescheduled or if ticket holders can request a refund.<\/p>\n
The 66-year-old Morrissey is touring to promote his album Make-up Is a Lie, his first in six years, which was released earlier this month. It is the 14th solo album for the ex-singer of The Smiths, an iconic 1980s rock band.<\/p>\n
While loved by his fans for timeless hits such as How Soon Is Now? and Everyday Is Like Sunday, Morrissey is also known for his temperamental character and wide array of shifting political views. His support of animal rights has made him a fierce critic of Spain’s traditional bullfights, for example.<\/p>\n
The Las Fallas festival in Valencia, a city on Spain\u2019s eastern Mediterranean coast, is famous for its noisy street parties and fireworks. It culminates in the burning of huge, handmade papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sculptures, which this year takes place on March 19.<\/p>\n
UNESCO added Las Fallas to its catalogue of intangible cultural heritage in 2016, describing the incineration of the sculptures as \u201ca form of purification\u201d and \u201csocial renewal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Morrissey stays in Spain for his next two tour dates, playing in Zaragoza and Seville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British rock star Morrissey won\u2019t perform a concert in Valencia after festivities in the Spanish city kept him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,157,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-326758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-music","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326758","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=326758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}