{"id":807983,"date":"2020-06-01T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1007502"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:53:20","slug":"motley-crue-poison-def-leppard-postpone-summer-stadium-tour-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/motley-crue-poison-def-leppard-postpone-summer-stadium-tour-to-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Poison, Def Leppard Postpone Summer Stadium Tour to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5398621bC.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/poison\/\" id=\"auto-tag_poison\" data-tag=\"poison\">Poison<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/def-leppard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_def-leppard\" data-tag=\"def-leppard\">Def Leppard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/joan-jett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joan-jett\" data-tag=\"joan-jett\">Joan Jett<\/a> have postponed their summer Stadium Tour, which was supposed to kick off June 18th at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, and wrap up September 5th at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. All dates have been moved to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new stadium dates are being rescheduled,\u201d the four acts wrote in a group statement. \u201cYour tickets will be honored for all postponed shows and refund policy information will be made available shortly. Stay tuned, be safe, and we will see you next year!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce haven\u2019t played together in public since the end of their 2015 farewell tour. They signed a \u201ccessation of touring agreement\u201d prior to that tour, which they claimed was binding. \u201cLegally, we can\u2019t play again,\u201d bassist Nikki Sixx said in 2014. \u201cThe only loophole is if all four band members agreed to do it, we could override our own contract. But we know that will never happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what happened in late 2019 when they released a video showing the contract getting blown to bits. It was narrated by Machine Gun Kelly, who portrayed Cr\u00fce drummer Tommy Lee in the 2019 Netflix movie <em>The Dirt.<\/em> \u201c[The fans] demanded the band tear up that stupid contract,\u201d he said, \u201cand come out of retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ticket sales were very strong for the tour and additional shows were added after the initial on-sale, but the COVID-19 pandemic made any rock tour, let alone of that magnitude, simply impossible. \u201cI would not feel comfortable, I just wouldn\u2019t,\u201d Jett said in May. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t feel comfortable putting the band or my crew in that position. I don\u2019t really have that right to mess with their lives like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/motley-crue-poison-def-leppard-postpone-summer-stadium-tour-to-2021-1007502\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Poison, Def Leppard and Joan Jett have postponed their summer Stadium Tour, which was supposed to kick off June 18th at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, and wrap up September 5th at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. All dates have been moved to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cThe new stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 16:44:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}