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Avicii announces retirement from live performance

By | Published on Wednesday 30 March 2016

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Avicii has announced that he is retiring from touring after his scheduled dates this summer. “I know I am blessed to be able to travel all around the world and perform”, he told fans in a letter on his website. “But I have too little left for the life of a real person behind the artist”.

The producer has suffered a number of health problems during periods of touring in recent years, and last September cancelled all remaining dates for the rest of the year following an “overloaded summer schedule”. Back then he said that he was planning a “larger tour initiative” for this summer, but his subsequent decision to actually bow out doesn’t entirely come as a surprise.

“My path has been filled with success but it hasn’t come without its bumps”, he wrote. “I’ve become an adult while growing as an artist. I’ve come to know myself better and realise that there’s so much I want to do with my life. I have strong interests in different areas but there’s so little time to explore them”.

He continued: “Two weeks ago, I took the time to drive across the US with my friends and team, to just look and see and think about things in a new way. It really helped me realise that I needed to make the change that I’d been struggling with for a while”.

“My choices and career have never been driven by material things, although I’m grateful for all the opportunities and comforts my success has availed me”, he went on. “I know I am blessed to be able to travel all around the world and perform, but I have too little left for the life of a real person behind the artist”.

He promised fans that he would “never let go of music” and also left room to change his mind and return to the stage in the future, concluding: “One part of me can never say never, I could be back… but I won’t be right back”.

As well as all that, the producer also added his phone number to the bottom of the letter, if you want to try to get him to change his mind. But if that fails, his final planned live show is at Creamfields on 27 Aug.



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