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Wolfmother birth cuts US tour
Bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross returns to Australia after his partner gives birth to son, forcing band to reschedule a string of tour dates.
Informed on Sunday that his partner was in labor one month ahead of schedule, Wolfmother bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross did what any man would do and rushed home.
Wolfdaddy Ross and band.
One problem: Home was a 23-hour flight from the East Coast of the US to Sydney, Australia, as the raucous retro-rockers had just played at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore on Saturday, and Ross' son was born while he was in the air over Hawaii.
His departure forced the band to skip the remainder of its US tour dates.
In a post to its Web site yesterday, the band said it was postponing tomorrow's show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles until December 12, with existing tickets remaining valid and those unable to make that date eligible for refunds.
The band also canceled a Friday performance in San Diego, as well as its slot at Saturday's Download Festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre outside San Francisco. That lineup also includes Beck, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Shins, Muse, TV on the Radio, Rogue Wave, and Coheed & Cambria.
"The band will take a planned break during October to allow Chris some family time and would like to sincerely apologize to anybody who has been inconvenienced by their change of plans this week," the band wrote on its Web site.
Wolfmother will hit the road again November 21 in Philadelphia. The trio's self-titled Interscope debut has sold 265,000 copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The group's new single, "Joker and the Thief," is the title track for the new Jackass Number 2 movie, the top-grossing film in the US last week. The song sits at No. 32 in its second week on Billboard's airplay-based Modern Rock chart.
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