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The Fall cancel upcoming North American shows due to Mark E Smith's health

Bad news: The Fall have had to cancel all their upcoming North American shows — the Cropped Out festival in Louisville, KY and the seven-show run at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right — due to medical issues with frontman Mark E. Smith. They were to have been The Fall’s first U.S. shows in over 10 years. Here’s the official statement from Fall manager Pamela Vander to the Cropped Out fest:

It is with great regret to announce that Mark E. Smith & The Fall have had to cancel all upcoming U.S shows in New York (Baby’s All Right) & Louisville (Cropped Out Festival) due mostly to terrible timing, reality and a mix of bizarre and rare (true to form) medical issues that Mark is currently being treated for. Unfortunately it would be a gamble on his health to fly anywhere over the next couple of months. Mark’s current problems are connected to his throat, mouth/dental & respiratory system… so throwing all the meds together and continuing with the travel/shows would certainly harm any progress that we have made over the past few weeks.

We understand that this is a huge deal for both American/worldwide fans of The Fall and The Fall themselves, Mark & the guys have been really excited and everyone is gutted about the outcome. However, it’s high-time Mark put his health first and that’s what we are gonna do.

So here’s the good news… NYC has been rescheduled already and we are gonna arrange another show in Louisville. Both promoters have been incredibly helpful & fantastic in securing The Fall a safe passage to America, and this will still be happening in 2018. Your Lord and Saviour Markus E. Smith wants to let you all know that even though he can’t play live for a short while, the cabin fever is spitting out a new album already and new music is now (as ever) The Fall’s main focus.

As the statement says, the Baby’s shows have already been rescheduled with new dates being February 18 – 25.