Blood Orange Cancels Australian Tour Dates, Sugar Mountain Announces Replacement Acts

Dev Hynes (AKA Blood Orange) has cancelled his scheduled Australian shows in Melbourne and Sydney, due to a family member’s ill health.

“I was looking forward to visiting Australia this year,” Hynes says. “Unfortunately due to personal and family matters, and after much consideration, I’ve decided to cancel these shows to spend time with my family. Sending love in the new year.”

Hynes was scheduled to perform a headline show in Sydney this month, as well as a set at Melbourne’s Sugar Mountain festival. Following Hynes’ cancellation, Sugar Mountain organisers have announced four new acts for their 2017 lineup — local plunderphonics heroes The Avalanches, their mate Spank Rock, rapper Young Tapz and electronic duo HABITS. Set times for the festival are also said to be dropping “real soon”.

Fans who purchased tickets to Blood Orange’s Sydney show at the Enmore Theatre will receive refunds through Ticketek. Tickets purchased by credit card will be refunded automatically, while punters who made cash or EFTPOS purchases will be contacted with instructions for how to obtain their refunds.

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Blood Orange 2017 Australian Tour Dates

Friday, 20th January 2017CANCELLED

Enmore Theatre, Sydney (AA)

Tickets: Ticketek

Saturday, 21st January 2017APPEARANCE CANCELLED

Sugar Mountain Festival

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Tickets: Sugar Mountain

Sugar Mountain 2017 Lineup

Music

The Avalanches

Spank Rock

Young Tapz

HABITS

…joining

ALTA

Baba Stiltz (SWE)

Beppe Loda (ITA)

Big Scary

Black Cab

Blood Orange

CC:DISCO!

Daydreams DJs

Dro Carey

Jaala

Jack River

Jessy Lanza (CAN)

Kelsey Lu (USA)

Kornél Kovács (SWE)

KUČKA

Little Simz (UK)

Methyl Ethel

Mood II Swing (USA)

Moses Sumney (USA)

My Disco

Palms Trax (GER)

Pantha Du Prince (GER)

Rolling Blackouts C.F.

Slum Sociable

Sui Zhen

Suzanne Ciani (USA) x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (USA)

The Belligerents

Tornado Wallace

Weyes Blood (USA)

Sugar Mountain 2017 Boiler Room Lineup

Mood II Swing

Tornado Wallace

Baba Stiltz

Kornel Kovacs

Beppe Loda

CC:DISCO!

Daydreams

Palms Trax

Art

Caleb O’Shea

Elliott Routledge

Karan Singh (JPN / AUS)

March Studios

Miriam Bleau (CAN)

MOMO (USA)

Robyn Moody (CAN) x Caroline Polachek (USA)

Supergroup London – Morag Myerscough x Luke Morgan (UK)

Sugar Mountain 2017

Saturday, 21st January 2017

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Tickets: Sugar Mountain

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