The Kings of Leon frontman, Caleb Followill, has announced that the band have cancelled their UK and European shows this summer after he injured his foot in a “freak accident”.
The singer, who is part of the US rock group with his brothers Nathan and Jared Followill and cousin Matthew Followill, was scheduled to perform at Blackweir Fields, Cardiff and Lancashire’s Lytham festival over the next two months.
Followill said on Wednesday that his shattered heel injury was “serious” and needed “significant emergency surgery that will prevent him from travelling and performing”.
The singer, 43, posted a video to the band’s Instagram account, saying: “Unfortunately, I regret to inform you that those [European] shows will have to be cancelled due to a freak accident that happened the other day – broke my foot pretty bad, just playing with my kids, it’s pretty gnarly, I’ll spare [you] all the details.
“But we’re fortunate enough to have some great doctors here in Nashville that gave me emergency surgery, and I’m on the mend, but they’ve told me that I can’t be on my feet or travelling or anything for the next eight weeks or so.
“And that’s a big bummer, man, we were so excited, we’ve been preparing for this tour for a long time.
“We’ve been preparing for a lot of things, we’ve been in the studio recording, we have a bunch of new songs, we were going to debut a few of them on this run, we had a lot of exciting things planned, and now we’re just going to have to pivot.”
The Nashville four-piece are best known for the songs Sex on Fire, Use Somebody and Notion.
The band said in a statement: “The anticipated recovery process is expected to take eight weeks, under strict guidance of expert orthopaedic specialists. The band regrets to report that they will need to cancel all upcoming UK and European festival headline shows in June and July of this year.”
Blackweir Fields and Lytham festival said they would refund customers who had paid to see the group.
Lytham festival said: “Due to the cancellation of the Kings of Leon dates in June and July, we are sad to announce that they will no longer be performing at Lytham festival on Wednesday 2 July.
“We wish Caleb a speedy recovery. Having explored all possibilities for a replacement act, it has not been possible at this late stage and therefore Lytham festival 2025 will now run for four days from the 3-6 July 2025.”
Blackweir said it was “sad” that the show on 29 June had been cancelled.
