Roberto Iniesta, known as Robe, the former guitarist and singer of Extremoduro, has announced this Friday the cancellation of his concerts at the Madrid WiZink Center venue, scheduled for this Friday, November 15 and Saturday the 16th with which he ended his tour Neither saints nor innocents.
The reason, as announced on their websiteis that the musician “has been diagnosed with pulmonary thromboembolism.” This forces him “to maintain complete rest, putting his health at serious risk otherwise.” A thromboembolism is a blockage of the blood vessels that carry oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
“We are devastated that we will not be able to finish this wonderful tour as we had planned, but we are not going to put Robe’s health at risk for anything in the world,” his team added in the statement. The cancellation was announced around five in the afternoon, just two hours before the doors opened.
Ticket money will be refunded automatically next week. Tickets were sold out for both dates, which means that around 24,000 people would have bought tickets for the highly anticipated concerts.
With these two concerts the an intense tour which began in May, after having recently passed through Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Vigo, on the 9th.
The influential hard rock group Extremoduro, active since 1987, announced its dissolution in 2021 due to the lack of “rapport” between its members. However, they planned a farewell tour in 2021 that turned out to be eventful, as it was first postponed twice due to pandemic restrictions and then permanently canceled.
Source: www.eldiario.es
