To be angry with the Arctic Monkeys?

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Last night the Arctic Monkeys headlined Glastonbury. Three days earlier they were due to play a sold out gig in Dublin but cancelled it the day before stating the lead singer Alex Turner had laryngitis. He sounded pretty pitch perfect last night 🤔

The gig in Dublin sold out in minutes last September. My dd was due to go and was really upset and disappointed. She has just finished her state exams and had been really looking forward to it. Many people lost money in their bookings for hotel rooms, buses, trains because they cancelled so late people couldn't get refunds.

I just think it is so disrespectful to your fans but obviously the notoriety of Glastonbury is more important to them then their Irish fans. I certainly wouldn't book to see them again.

Really?

Should they just have kept their money in the bank rather then buy a Glastonbury ticket? Or are you suggesting these people should have given it to food bank users?

What? Are you accusing Alex of pulling a sickie? Isn't that like someone having a week off work because they're unwell then perking up at the weekend. Do you really think he thought, oh I can't be bothered with my Irish fans but I'll definitely go to Glastonbury? He'll have taken the advice of a doctor (or voice coach) and discussed it with the band. Maybe their all in on it too and just fancied a night off.

There’s a lot of illness around because when we all isolated from Covid days our immune systems crashed …
that’s why so many are cancelling
sam smith .. Marti Pellow … it happens .. they are human and get ill … it’s gutting I know but we need to put things into perspective sometimes .. you’re still here and alive and kicking so try to turn this around and sometimes life just pans out this way … it’s meant to be

I wonder if there is some sort of tie in with Glasto? Imagine if 3 or 4 big acts cancelled at the last minute, it would be too late to get a stand in at short notice especially if it's a headline act. It would explain why Arctic Monkeys and Lewis Capaldi performed at under par.

A friend of mine laryngitis and I know it took her a while to get over it fully, so I don't see how, after only 4 days, he was well enough to sing at Glastonbury!

Not me thinking that the arctic monkeys was another name for wyipipo

I’ve not read all the comments replies so I’m not sure if this has already been said but my experience of having laryngitis was one day I was fine, the next day I woke with absolutely zero voice, rested it for a day or 2 and then it came back and I was back to normal again.

Personally I thought Arctic Monkeys were a massive let down on Saturday, I would have been gutted if I’d waited in that field to watch them and got that. Probably best that it was cancelled and you get a refund.

He was given medical advice to rest. And after resting 3 days, he sounded ok. That's hardly strange. It's just bad luck really. If he'd sung with acute laryngitis in Dublin instead of resting when he needed to, he could have damaged his voice for the remainder of the tour and disappointed a hell of a lot more people.

Maybe he was medically advised not to do the Dublin gig and didn't decide on his own and was medically cleared to do Glastonbury. Unless you are his doctor I'm not sure how you can know the circumstances. If the Glastonbury and Dublin concerts were the other way round, maybe he'd have made the Dublin one. It might actually have been his health he was prioritising, not Glastonbury.

Millions of people will pay over that for a holiday this year because they can afford to. What do you suggest people do?

I think YANBU to be really disappointed at the last minute cancellation - I've been there (25 years ago Elton John & Billy Joel - still disappointed!).

I think definitely YABU to be angry at them for it. To cancel a sold out stadium gig is not a decision that would have been taken lightly.

Hope your DD gets to do something else fab to celebrate end of exams :0)

Yes agree. And I hooe your DD doesn't feel too 'cheated' or even 'sleighted' or 'hard done by'.

If she were my daughter I would be pointing out the facts re laryngitis, many mentioned on here, in the hopes she does not believe there is some sort of anti-Irish /Dublin agenda, or even a bigger money agenda going on.

Turn it into a positive, hope she has fun, and try not to hold a grudge against Alex Turner as and AM for life.

wyipipo what does it mean?

It means white people.

This!!!! They couldn’t win either way in this situation.

Thanks @KateKateLee 😬