After weeks of speculation regarding this summer’s scheduled Stadium Tour, a mega-tour featuring Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, word came down on Monday that the tour has officially been postponed to Summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Crue announced the news with a post on social media:
We wanted to continue to communicate with our fans and update you with valid information as it becomes available. The official decision has been made to move all 2020 North American Stadium Tour dates into the summer of 2021. The new stadium dates are being rescheduled, your tickets will be honored for all postponed shows and refund policy information will be made available shortly.
Stay tuned, be safe and we will see you next year.
Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Def Leppard and Poison also shared the same official statement:
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts had a different visual, but the same general announcement:
The Stadium Tour had originally been announced in late 2019, and had big plans for gigantic outdoor venues this summer — but those gigs will now take place next year.
The decision to postpone The Stadium Tour to Summer 2021 is the same fate of the Hella Mega Tour featuring Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy, another huge tour that was supposed to take place this summer.
Hella Mega was officially postponed on May 19.
It’s an uncertain time for the live music business, to say the very least, with the pandemic forcing iconic venues to cancel their entire 2020 seasons and smaller, independent venues banding together in hopes of ensuring their existence once the pandemic subsides.
