Adele scraps US Tour

Adele has been forced to cancel her upcoming 10 city sold-out tour of the U.S. due to a hemorrhage into her vocal chord. Vocal chord issues forced the British singer to postpone dates earlier this year as well. Adele has just wrapped up touring around the UK and was preparing to kick off her US tour on October 7 in Atlantic City, NJ when her illness reappeared. She has been advised by doctors that she’ll need an extended rest period in order to begin to recuperate properly.

She writes:

Guys, im heartbroken and worried to tell you that yet again im experiencing problems with my voice. its ridiculous i know! i cant believe it myself. i follow all the advice im given and stick to regimes, rules and practices to the best of my ability but it seems to simply not be enough. i want you to know the full story about my voice troubles so bare with me in this long blog. i first started having trouble with my voice back in january, it was weakened by a bout of flu from december and never got its complete strength back before i started my UK and European promotional tour, so it just got weaker and weaker until it eventually “broke” as i say. i didnt realise at the time, cause id never had anything wrong with my voice, ever. but id also never sung as much as i was at the time it went. i was diagnosed with laryngitis and ordered to rest intensely for 10 days, and i recovered and went on to do a show in london and a month long promo tour in the U.S and also the brit awards without any hiccups. the whole time i stuck to a strict regime of numerous diets, steaming, vocal rest and vocal warm ups. which is very necessary but insanely grim. After a bit of time off I embarked on my european and UK tours at the end of march and finished at the end of april and everything seemed fine.

in may i went on tour in the U.S, i was in minneapolis which was about half way through the tour. i made a skype call in the morning on the day of the show and during it my voice suddenly switched off like a light! it was literally as if someone pulled a curtain over my throat. i knew something was wrong and panicked but convinced myself id be fine. i got to soundcheck and knew immediately i couldnt perform and with doctors advice cancelled the show. i was mortified and distraught but stubbornly insisted we go to denver for the following day, i did the show even though in the back of mind i knew it wasnt the right thing to do. and during it i felt, what i can only describe as something ripping in my throat. but adrenalin kicked in and i was too embarrassed to not finish the show. I was sent to LA to rest and get another opinion. this time i was diagnosed with a hemorrhage. which is like a black eye on the vocal chord, it was incredibly tender and dangerous if i was to continue to sing through it. i was ordered to rest, so i flew home and did for a month. then slowly i started fulfilling my commitments. i did a show in london at the itunes festival and then went on to complete the first leg of the rescheduled US shows and perform at the VMAS which were all a blinding success.

however when i got home and prepared to start my UK tour in september i developed a respiratory and chest infection which had nothing to do with any of my voice problems from before but still forced me to cancel 6 shows and a performance at the mercury awards. i was stuffed full of antibiotics, had some time to rest and in the end managed to do 9 shows of the 15. After them and once back home my voice yet again went. mid conversation and it just switched off! i have a hemorrhage again and it is paramount that i rest and therefore wont be able to come and do these already rescheduled U.S shows which are due to start this friday in atlantic city.

the fact is i have never been able to fully recover from any of the problems that ive had and then continue to rest even once im recovered, because of my touring commitments. ive been offered the chance to not tour at all to save anything like this from happening again, but i simply hate letting you down. although now im having to let you down once again through no fault of my own really. if i continue to pick up everything before i have properly conquered these problems and nipped them in the bud. i will be totally and utterly fucked. singing is literally my life, its my hobbie, my love, my freedom and now my job. I have absolutely no choice but to recuperate properly and fully, or i risk damaging my voice forever. i have great confidence in believing you know how much this upsets me, how seriously i take it and how truly devastated and annoyed i am by this. wanting to do something so bad and not being able to is the most frustrating thing as im sure you know! my voice is weak and i need to build it back up. I’m gonna be starting up vocal rehab as soon as, and start building my over all stamina in my voice, body and mind. i will be back and im gonna smash the ball out the park once im touring again. i apologise from the bottom of my heart, sincerely i do. i know its not only disappointing because of the show, but its plane tickets, hotel bookings, birthdays, anniversaries and time wasted. but please have faith in me that this is the only thing i can do to make sure i can always sing and always make music for you to the best of my ability. truly yours and yours only forever, adele xx

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Member Review: Adele

BPD loyalist Late Bloomer wrote:

Adele could initially be heard singing backstage while a spotlight shone on her pianist before she walked out to huge cheers from the audience.

By the next song, I’ll Be Waiting, her entire seven-piece band was revealed.

With a noted reluctance to play larger venues, she kept her surroundings as intimate as possible with Tiffany lamps and area rugs decorating her otherwise bare stage - no oversized video screens for her.

Backstage she confessed “I have no idea how to dance unless I’ve had quite a lot of vodka." She also told me that she and the band were out the night before doing karaoke and that they were all a bit hoarse. "My high notes probably won't match my high notes, if you know what I mean".

But her big, soulful voice was in good form, for the most part, despite a wayward note at the end of Turning Tables.

By the next song, Set Fire To the Rain, the audience got into the groove with a spirited clap-along, and afterwards she turned up the house lights so she could get a good look at everyone.

Adele, who sometimes sat on a stool, sometimes stood, occasionally with an acoustic guitar, does have a knack for connecting with her audience as she happily - perhaps nervously - chatted away in her thick, hard-to-understand accent between songs and let the occasional cackle rip.

She seems determined, despite her rising fame, to remain just one of the girls.

Adele’s disposition, look and voice definitely recalls another time.

Other musical highlights from her 80-minute set of songs from 21 and its 2008 predecessor, 19, included the driving Rumour Has It, the bouncy Right As Rain, the torchy ballad One and Only, and her breakthrough hit, Chasing Pavements.

Her eclectic, if well-chosen list of covers were If It Hadn’t Been For Love, by Nashville band The Steel Drivers, an excellent bossa nova take on Lovesong by The Cure, which is on 21, and a heartfelt rendition of Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love, included on 19.

But everyone was waiting for her thrilling monster hit, from 21 - Rolling In The Deep - and had to wait for it to close the show after a beautiful rendering of the ballad, Someone Like You, in which she played acoustic guitar while accompanied by her piano player and the crowd, who sang along.

SET LIST:

Hometown Glory

I’ll Be Waiting

Don’t You Remember

Turning Tables

Set Fire to the Rain

If It Hadn’t Been for Love (The Steel Drivers cover)

My Same

Take It All

Rumour Has It

Right as Rain

One and Only

Lovesong (The Cure cover)

Chasing Pavements

Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan Cover)

ENCORE

Someone Like You

Rolling in the Deep

Thanks Late Bloomer. We always appreciate members writing in about their experiences.

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