Eddy Grant has been forced to cancel his upcoming gigs in the US after his backing band were unable to obtain visas to enter the country in time. However, he says that the gigs will be rescheduled for next year.
Grant told WENN: "The band are waiting for their visas. It has just taken longer than everybody imagined. They are all sitting in Johannesburg waiting for the visas. We are hoping they will turn up next week or so. We kept putting the shows back and postponing and postponing and in the end it didn't make sense. So we have cancelled the shows and will put them back in for next year".
Despite this setback, Grant says that he is enjoying being back on the road, and is thrilled that live music seems to be where it's at these days. He rambles thus: "It's fantastic. When I was in the studio I wanted to make records that would outlast me and would be around in 50 years. Then the world turned and people weren't prepared to pay for music any more. I predicted many years ago that that's the situation we would wind up in. It's like Green Shield Stamps. But some people were too busy talking about producing music. The ordinary man, he decided he wanted to hear some guitar in his head, and have some fire in his belly, and to laugh and have a good time. The collective value of being a performer came to the fore. It's what people want".