Rick Springfield and Zoot Cancel Australia Tour

Rick Springfield’s long-overdue homecoming reunion tour with Zoot has been scrapped.

“It’s with a lot disappointment and disappointment that we should announce that the Zoot tour of Australia is cancelled,” reads a press release issued Wednesday (April 13) from DRW Leisure, producer of the multi-city trek.

“A lot has modified within the two years since we introduced the tour, and particular person members of the band, while excited in regards to the potential provided by the tour, are actually sadly not ready whereby they’ll transfer ahead with the tour as scheduled,” the message continues.

The reunion dates have been scheduled to go to Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne this October, for Zoot’s first Australian exhibits in over 50 years. Springfield was to be joined on stage by Rick Brewer, Beeb Birtles and Russell Morris, with Little River Band founding member Roger McLachlan on bass.

After delays as a consequence of COVID, it was determined “moderately than postpone the tour but once more, the choice has been taken to cancel the tour and refund all ticket holders.”

The door isn’t closed, nonetheless, on one other trek. “It might be that the tour may be rescheduled sooner or later,” the assertion continues, “and if that’s the case, we are going to notify all of latest dates.”

Springfield was a member of the pop-rock group from 1969 to 1971, earlier than launching a solo profession, and notably snagging a Grammy with “Jessie’s Woman”. Zoot launched a string of singles throughout that point, together with “One Occasions, Two Occasions, Three Occasions, 4,” “Monty and Me,” “The Freak,” and a canopy of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.”

Springfield was booked for a uncommon solo tour of his homeland in 2014, however canceled when he landed an element in Ricki And The Flash alongside Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.

His signature track “Jessie’s Woman” received the Grammy for greatest male rock vocal efficiency after peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 1981. Springfield was the final solo Aussie male artist to high the chart till Gotye did so in 2012 with “Someone That I Used to Know.”