Two high profile tours have been on hold this week because of the illness of their stars. Green Day missed two US dates because one band member was ill. Rumour has it the ill one was frontman Billie Joe Armstrong who had been told by doctors to rest his voice. On confirming the two cancellations, a statement from the show's promoters said the performance was "regretfully" postponed due to "illness of a band member."
Green Day's cancellations, however, are pretty insignificant next to the news that Eminem is canceling his upcoming 12 date European tour to recover from "exhaustion". The European leg of Eminem's latest Anger Management Tour was due to kick off in Hamburg on 1 Sep, but in a statement this week a spokesman for the rapper's label, Interscope, told reporters the tour was on hold because: "Eminem is currently being treated for exhaustion, complicated by other medical issues".
Promoters are now reportedly considering the viability of going ahead with the tour with just co-headliner 50 Cent topping the bill.