BMTH’s Lee Malia will be absent from upcoming Australian tour
Bring Me The Horizon guitarist Lee Malia will be absent from the band’s upcoming Australian tour, it has been announced.
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The Sheffield band are due to begin a seven-date run of shows Down Under with a performance at the John Cain Arena in Melbourne tonight (April 10).
Further stop-offs are scheduled in Sydney (April 12, 14), Adelaide (17) and Brisbane (20, 21). A second Melbourne concert will take place at the Rod Laver Arena on April 18.
Ahead of today’s tour opener, BMTH took to social media to tell fans that Malia would not be part of the line-up for this stint.
“Lee is unable to join us for [the] NEX GEN DOWN UNDER shows,” the statement began on X/Twitter.
“He will be back for future dates, but is taking some time out with the new addition to his family for this run.” You can see the message in the post below.
𝙇𝙚𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙉𝙀𝙓 𝙂𝙀𝙉 𝘿𝙊𝙒𝙉 𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙨. 𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧…
— Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) April 10, 2024
Sleep Token will be supporting Bring Me The Horizon on their 2024 Australian tour along with Perth-formed metalcore band Make Them Suffer and Filipino-Australian dark pop artist Daine.
Last month saw BMTH win the Best Alternative/Rock Act award at the BRITs 2024. Speaking to NME at the ceremony, the group gave an update on when fans could expect their delayed next album, ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’.
“It’s nearly finished, but it’s not finished,” explained frontman Oli Sykes.
“Every time we think we’ve got it, we get another song. It’s going to be right good though, it’s our best album ever… Worth the wait.”
You can check out the full video interview below.
In January BMTH shared the single ‘Kool-Aid’, which marked their first new music since the departure of Jordan Fish. Meanwhile, there has been speculation over potential collaborations with Underoath and Billie Eilish on ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’.
Following their gigs in Australia, Bring Me The Horizon will play two shows in Las Vegas, Nevada (April 25, 26) before appearing at Sick New World Festival 2024 in Sin City (27). They’ll then head to Europe for a run of festivals, including Mad Cool in Spain and Southside in Germany.
In other news, Sykes has teamed up with Japanese horror manga artist Junji Ito for a new Drop Dead clothing collection.
