Beloved Eighties pop group the Motels have been pressured to cancel the remaining dates on their 2024 U.S. tour after singer Martha Davis revealed that she is within the midst of a second battle in opposition to breast most cancers. In an announcement launched on Tuesday (Oct. 8), the 73-year-old vocalist stated {that a} pair of deliberate November dates in California on Nov. 8 and 9 — the previous a part of the throwback Rad Music Fest alongside A Flock of Seagulls and The Tubes, the latter tied to the Completely 80s Fest with Bow Wow Wow and Gene Loves Jezebel — have been known as off after she misplaced her voice because of radiation remedies.
“I simply canceled our remaining reveals of the 12 months… I believe it’s time i come clear with you lovelies which have bought tickets for upcoming reveals…other than badly breaking my wrist on September 9, I’m additionally within the mopup levels of a two 12 months breast most cancers thingie,” Davis stated in an announcement. “Had the estrogen blocker, the lumpectomy and now radiation. The radiation has precipitated me to lose my voice…so no guitar, no voice…no reveals… I’m doing effectively and will probably be delighted when all that is over…final radiation is on the twenty third…yay!”
Davis continued, “Within the final two months the universe has been taking part in dodgeball with me whereas my ft are velcroed to the bottom. Began writing a brand new tune… ‘I’m starring in my very own sh–present!’ I really like and miss you all a lot, and I can’t wait to get again at it!” At press time, the band nonetheless had reveals booked from January-April 2025 in California and Oregon.
Berkeley, CA-bred Davis began her profession in 1971 fronting the Warfield Foxes, who remodeled into The Motels in 1975. The brand new wave band’s self-titled Capitol Data debut got here out in 1979, adopted by Cautious in 1980. They broke by way of in 1982 because of a wistful ballad from their third album “Solely the Lonely,” which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Scorching 100, adopted by one other moody midtempo hit, “All of the sudden Final Summer time” from 1983’s Little Robbers album; it additionally peaked at No. 9 on the Scorching 100.
Davis first battled breast most cancers in 1983-84 on the top of the MTV-favorite group’s success. The singer has launched greater than half a dozen solo albums since 1987 and the Motels’ most up-to-date studio effort was 2018’s The Final Few Lovely Days.
