The 27-year-old artist has released a statement concerning the news, “To everyone in Australia and New Zealand, I can’t believe it’s been four years, I can’t wait to see you again, but unfortunately it is just not possible at this time. I will be sharing news soon about new shows. Love you all so much. I miss you, and I can’t wait to see you.”

Live Nation also published a statement on their website that confirmed the cancellation and informed ticketholders that a full refund will be given, “Due to the continuing challenges for international touring, the Harry Styles ‘Love On Tour’ is unable to be rescheduled for Australia & New Zealand in 2022. The current arena tour will be cancelled whilst we work towards a new tour, with all ticket holders receiving a full refund accordingly.”

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The former One Direction member has confirmed that the tour dates for the UK, Europe and South America will be going ahead as scheduled. The tour’s support acts have already been confirmed, for the UK dates Mitski will be opening for the singer. For the Dublin show, Styles will share the stage with Mercury Prize award-winning artist Arlo Parks, and for some of the singer’s European dates, he will be joined by British rockers Wolf Alice. Throughout the tour’s Southern American leg, the singer will be supported by Koffee, the 21-year-old musician who is best known as the youngest person and woman to win the Best Reggae Album prize at the Grammy Awards.

The singer’s second tour sees the Style perform in his first stadiums, including London’s famed Wembley Stadium on 18th June 2022. Styles is set to begin the 32 city tour with a performance in Glasgow on 11th June 2022, the singer will conclude his four-date UK leg on 22nd June 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. The tour’s European run is set to begin on 26th June 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, after 19 performances across the continent Styles will perform on 20th November 2022 in Mexico, the tour will end after 9 dates with the concluding show on 10th December 2022 in Brazil.

The “Watermelon Sugar” singer joins a list of artists who recently announced the cancellation of their Australian and New Zealand tour dates. Other artists including Sir Rod Stewart were also forced to cancel shows due to the complications and restrictions brought upon by COVID.

Harry Styles UK Tour Dates

11/06/2022 – IBrox Stadium – Glasgow
15/06 – Emirates Old Trafford – Manchester
19/06 – Wembley Stadium – London
22/06 – Aviva Stadium – Dublin

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The original plan was for a European tour, with six dates taking the group around places such as Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands towards the end of January and the beginning of next month. However, if you had plans to see them in the UK then don’t despair just yet. The group are still due for dates in places such as Doncaster, Warrington and Southampton next May to July, COVID-permitting.

It’s disappointing news for fans of the five-piece from Greater Manchester, especially as Blossoms were arguably at the forefront of the UK’s return to live music-making, headlining at last May’s trial one-day festival at Sefton Park. However, it seems the spread of the Omicron variant has them extra cautious as of now.

Of course, they’ve been involved in other forms of live performance over the past few months, teaming up with “Never Gonna Give You Up”-star Rick Astley last September/October for a round of covers from The Smiths’ back catalogue, covering such classics as “Panic“ and “This Charming Man“.

The event got a mixed reception from The Smiths’ co-founders Morrissey and Johnny Marr, with Morrissey thanking them, saying “anything that generates interest in the tired old Smiths warhorse is testimony to the wallop it pack“. Marr on the other hand seemed a bit upset about not having been told beforehand, tweeting that “ I met The Blossoms a few weeks ago and they elected to not mention it. Nice.“

Then again, it sounds like things have been smoothed over between the group and the veteran rock-star, with Marr later mentioning that “There was an M.O. there that just wasn’t very cool – but I’ve dealt with it. I think I’m a pretty reasonable person, and I’ve dealt with it.“

Either way, if you don’t feel like waiting for the European gigs to be re-arranged, or just fancy a nice UK concert to get yourself to next May-July time, tickets for Blossoms’ UK tour can be found here. Let’s hope nothing gets in the way of this one however.