Guns N’ Roses and Kiss ‘to reschedule tours’ amid Australia’s Covid outbreak

Guns N’ Roses and Kiss are expected to postpone their Australian tours due to the Covid-19 outbreak spreading through Sydney.

Promoters for the American rock icons are clambering to save the tours that were initially lined up for November, according to The Herald Sun.

The bands are currently scheduled to play tours throughout the U.S. this year before travelling Down Under – but the Delta strain outbreak will probably put a stop to this.

Guns N’ Roses was set to perform at the MCG and Kiss at Rod Laver Arena, but it’s likely these stadium shows won’t go ahead.

‘I’m moving the Kiss tour dates. I have to,’ said Kiss’s longtime Australian promoter Andrew McManus. ‘Within the current [Covid] guidelines the government is purporting, most shows and tours will move back to 2022.’

‘There is no way you can run a tour properly at the moment,’ he continued. 

McManus explained the Kiss tour will likely be moved back to March 2022.

Guns N’ Roses are also potentially looking at a 2022 tour, but promoter Paul Dainty said no firm decision had been made at this stage.    

Many promoters feel the Australian tour calendar for international artists has been intentionally paused and is outside their control this year. 

Michael Chugg, a career promoter, clarified this this feeling by saying Australian authorities ‘won’t let international bands in until next year’. 

‘Every week we’re having to cancel and move tours, and it’s been going on for months. It’s a crazy mess,’ he said.  

There has also been frustration from promoters over sports games and other events going ahead, while live music misses out. 

A tour plan was originally put in place for Kiss and Guns N’ Roses, where the two megastar rock groups would have a tour bubble and spend 14 days in quarantine when they arrived in Australia.