Of Mice & Men won’t return until 2016

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
published

Band cancel appearance at October’s Louder Than Life festival as frontman Austin Carlile continues to recover from surgery

Of Mice & Men have cancelled their appearance at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

They’d been scheduled to play at the event in October but with frontman Austin Carlile continuing his recovery from surgery, the band have decided to step back from live commitments until 2016.

The move also means they’re unable to reschedule their shows in Mexico City and San Diego which were scrapped earlier this year.

The band say: “While the surgeries Austin underwent earlier this summer went well, it is important that we allow him time to recover so that we may come back in 2016 stronger than ever.”

Carlile received emergency medical attention in June because of complications from the genetic disorder Marfans and said in July that he was on the road to recovery.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.