Sons Of Apollo cancel summer festival appearances

By Scott Munro
( Prog )
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Sons Of Apollo pull out of their planned sets at Wacken Open Air and Prog In The Park this month due to “unforeseen circumstances”

Sons Of Apollo have been forced to cancel their upcoming European summer festival slots due to “unforeseen circumstances.”

Mike Portnoy, Derek Sherinian, Billy Sheehan, Jeff Scott Soto and Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal were due to play Wacken Open Air tomorrow and Prog In The Park later this month, but they’ve announced those shows will no longer take place.

The band say in a statement: “Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, Sons Of Apollo regretfully has had to cancel all remaining summer festival appearances at Wacken Open Air and Prog In The Park II.

“We sincerely apologise to all of the fans that were looking forward to these appearances.

“The headlining show in Budapest originally scheduled for August 18 has now been moved into our fall schedule and will now happen on September 17. All tickets for the originally scheduled Aug date will still be honoured.”

Sons Of Apollo have also announced four German shows, which will take place in October – part of the band’s autumn European tour which will go ahead as planned.

Find a full list of the band’s 2018 dates below, with the newly announced shows in highlighted in bold.

Sons Of Apollo released their debut album Psychotic Symphony in October last year via InsideOut Music.

Sons Of Apollo 2018 tour dates

Sep 10: Osaka Bigcat, Japan
Sep 11: Tokyo Ebisu Liquidroom, Japan
Sep 12: Tokyo Ebisu Liquidroom, Japan
Sep 15: Raismes Fest, France
Sep 17: Budapest Barba Negra Track, Hungary
Sep 19: Moscow Glavclub, Russia
Sep 22: Plovdiv Ancient Theatre, Bulgaria
Sep 24: Athens Fuzz Club, Greece
Sep 26: Tel Aviv Barby Club, Israel
Sep 28: London Islington Assembly Hall, UK
Sep 29: Bristol SWX, UK
Sep 30: Glasgow The Garage, UK
Oct 01: Manchester Academy 2, UK
Oct 04: Zoetermeer Boerderij, Netherlands
Oct 05: Baarlo ProgPower Europe, Netherlands
Oct 06: Esch-sur-Alzette Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg
Oct 08: Zurich Complex, Switzerland
Oct 09: Aschaffenburg Colos-Saal, Germany
Oct 10: Verviers The Spirit of 66, Belgium
Oct 12: Paris Elysee Montmartre, France
Oct 13: Toulouse Very Prog Festival, France
Oct 15: Lyon Radiant-Bellvue, France
Oct 16: Strasbourg La Laiterie, France
Oct 17: Munich Backstage Halle, Germany
Oct 19: Stuttgart Im Wizemann, Germany
Oct 20: Cologne Luxor, Germany

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.