Jess Glynne Axes Further Live Shows, After Controversy Over Isle Of Wight Cancellation

Jess Glynne has announced she’s cancelling a number of upcoming live shows, including a performance at Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival, following a vocal haemorrhage.

Last week, Jess made headlines when it was announced she had pulled out of an appearance at the Isle Of Wight festival at the 11th hour due to exhaustion.

However, reports shortly afterwards suggested that she had been out at an afterparty until the early hours of the morning the previous night, having completed her final show on the Spice Girls’ UK tour.

Jess confirmed this to be the case in a new statement, in which she also revealed she’s had to axe a number of gigs on medical grounds.

“It absolutely kills me to say this – especially given what has happened in the past few weeks – but on the advice of my throat surgeon, I am going to have to cancel my next shows through until July 14 and I hope to be back as soon as possible after that,” she wrote. 

“I know many of my fans feel I let them down so badly when I pulled out of the Isle Of Wight festival but the reason I knew I just wasn’t going to be able to make that performance has now been made clear to me by my doctor, Dr Zeitels.”

Jess continued: “It is true that I went out and celebrated the end of the Spice tour. That was a massive high for me and I wanted to mark it with the women who’d become friends and mentors to me, but ut I had also been suffering on and off for weeks with anxiety about my voice. It wasn’t right. I wasn’t sounding my best and I felt there was something wrong.”

She added: “Two days ago I came to Boston to see my surgeon who told me my vocal chord has haemorrhaged and that if I wanted to remain as a performer I needed to urgently take a break, rest my voice completely for the next 10 days and try and remain in total silence to give my vocal cords a chance to recover.”

Last month, Jess pulled out of a performance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend, again just hours before she was due to take to the stage, having “lost her voice”.

Radio 1 DJ Greg James later revealed that her band had already arrived at the venue when Jess cancelled, tweeting: “It was too late to tell the band and they’ve turned up and can’t leave as the bus driver has worked too many hours so they’ve all decided to go into town and watch Aladdin.”