Guys, I think maybe it’s time we stopping dumping all of our emotional pain and problems on poor Chan Marshall. I know she can’t actually hear us. And believe me, I also know all too well that we all feel better after projecting our petty insecurities onto third-party objects — for instance, whenever I get dumped on at TMT for writing stories that hinge on milquetoast premises and then compounding the problem by calling hyphened-off attention to that fact, I like to go home at the end of the day and yell at my bucket of KFC mashed potatoes until I pass out in them — but I just smoked a lot of weed, and I’m starting to think that using Chan as a totem for all of our petty bullshit is maybe somehow telekinetically making her physically sick .
As Primavera Sound tells us, Chan’s just announced that she is officially postponing a trek to Europe that she had planned for 2013 in support of her critically-acknowledged new album due to her continuing struggle with Angioedema. But wait, before you Google-search that word, check out what she posted on her Instagram:
As many of my fans know, I’ve been suffering from angioedema. It can attack at random & is extremely frightening and dangerous when it hits my throat, windpipe, or tongue, and I’ve been hospitalized for it eight times since the first attack, 2 DAYS AFTER MY RECORD RELEASE. Since then, I worked very very hard with all the best allergists, cardiologists, neurologists, accupuncurists, homeopathists & renowned healers that I could find, Body Talk, Reiki, Yoga, etc. so that I COULD DO THIS AMERICAN TOUR. I did my best & I want to do MORE & BETTER.
The American tour has been wonderful and amazing, and with me being unable to AFFORD to bring my show with full production, (which i helped create) to Europe, financially, really dumped a huge additional amount of stress on me as i was and still am fighting trying to get tour support.
I have to postpone my European tour until early next year, so I can return home and re-engage myself back into my health regimen.
I fucking love my fans. Everything I do regarding my career, I FIRST, think of my fans and this world we all share. But right now, I HAVE TO think of myself because I have to learn trough meditation & being clear from alcohol & cigarettes & red meat and lots of rest amongst my menagerie of doctors…. I have to think of MYSELF right now because I have to now LEARN to heal myself. Through that, I can learn to help others to heal themselves. I know my fans will understand and I thank them and love them much more than I believe they could ever know. I am here and do what I do, for them and because of them. You have kept me alive this long, I refuse to give up on you OR MYSELF. And that goes to all the journalists who write a true story as well. To you all in the struggle. May light be on your path at every step.
Bummer, I know. But I urge Cat Power fans to think twice about getting too emotionally distraught about all of this, lest the poor woman ends up in the emergency room. Sorry, but you’ll just have to find another outlet. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go freak the fuck out on some sour cream.
Cat Power dates:
11.08.12 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
11.26.12 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11.28.12 - Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
11.29.12 - Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
12.01.12 - Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36
12.02.12 - Munich, Germany - Theaterfabrik
12.03.12 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
12.04.12 - Bologna, Italy - Estragon
12.06.12 - Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus
12.07.12 - Madrid, Spain - Matadero
12.08.12 - Barcelona, Spain - Sant Jordi Club
12.10.12 - Paris, France - Le Trianon
12.12.12 - London, England - Roundhouse
12.14.12 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Club
01.30.12 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
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