PVRIS gig cancelled in Manchester as a result of roof leaking water amidst heavy storms
PVRIS‘ gig in Manchester has been cancelled as a result of roof leaking water amidst heavy storms.
The Massachussetts band have been as a result of play on the O2 Victoria Warehouse tonight (Could 12) in what would have been their first evening on their UK leg of the tour.
Nevertheless, as a result of torrential storms that Manchester is at present experiencing, the warehouse was discovered to be leaking water from the roof. Consequently, PVRIS have been pressured to cancel their gig tonight.
Taking to social media, the band wrote: “Manchester, we’re so sorry to should cancel the present tonight due to an enormous leak within the venue’s ceiling, inflicting flooding proper earlier than doorways. We’ve tried all the pieces we might to search out an alternative choice to nonetheless carry out for you all tonight, however as a result of circumstances past our management, there may be sadly no choice for the present to go forward.
“We have been wanting ahead to our first gig again within the UK and to spend it with you, and we’re simply as disenchanted, however everybody’s security is #1 precedence. We’re doing our greatest to discover a option to reschedule this present ASAP. Extra data coming as quickly as we all know extra, we’re at nighttime simply as a lot as you might be in regards to the state of affairs. PVRIS”
The band are nonetheless anticipated to play their Glasgow date tomorrow – get any remaining tickets here.
— PVRIS (@ThisIsPVRIS) May 12, 2024
@BBCNews MCR gig venue disaster continues. #PVRIS gig cancelled @O2VicWarehouse when roof began letting in water pic.twitter.com/oc1VDxREp8
— Cat Dow (@CatDow) May 12, 2024
PVRIS final launched their album ‘Evergreen‘ in 2023 by Hopeless Data, which Lynn Gunn referred to as “a reclamation of management in our post-pandemic tradition, posing a posh dialogue on fame, know-how, spectacle, and feminine autonomy.”
She added: “It’s not my job as an artist to cater to sure developments or folks’s nostalgia, I’ve to comply with what I really feel compelled to comply with and do my finest to uncover what truths and messages I can discover inside that. I’ve to all the time embrace the dangers of change and belief that every stage of my music’s life will resonate with whoever it’s meant to.”
Since then, PVRIS have launched their collaboration with Tommy Genesis and Alice Longyu Gao referred to as ‘Burn The Witch’, the lead single to their follow-up album from ‘Evergreen’.
“I’ve been an enormous fan of each Tommy and Alice for fairly some time so it was an absolute dream to not solely have them on a observe collectively however to additionally get to be crafting the manufacturing round their components,” stated Gunn of the collaboration.
It was additionally revealed the brand new album was made with a completely feminine group of artists, writers and producers: “At its core, I simply needed to make a enjoyable challenge filled with some unhealthy bitches in music that I really like and create an area the place we are able to categorical no matter we wish and get to experiment sonically.”