Stevie Nicks Says ‘Crazy’ Leg Infection Forced Show Postponement
Stevie Nicks carried out in Glasgow on Wednesday, the place she detailed the “crazy” leg an infection that led to the preliminary postponement of the present earlier within the month.
The singer was scheduled to carry out on the OVO Hydro on July 6, however she needed to postpone the present on the final minute attributable to “a recent leg injury requiring a minor surgical procedure that will need a few days of recovery time.” (A July 9 look in Manchester was additionally pushed to July 16.) On Wednesday, nonetheless, Nicks described her latest well being setback in barely extra extreme phrases.
“I don’t know what happened. I just got this weird infection, and it just went crazy,” Nicks advised the viewers. The celebrity famous that she and her crew had arrived in Glasgow a couple of days earlier than their initially scheduled present and had been staying in a “fabulous castle” when she realized one thing was flawed.
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“I finally just looked at my assistant — it was like 2 in the morning — and I said, ‘I think we need to go to emergency,’” Nicks mentioned. “And so our butler, this wonderful man … throws us in his BMW sedan, which is so great, and off we sped through the night to a hospital. And I was there for two days, and then they let me go back to the castle, and we canceled this show.”
She ended her speech on a observe of defiance and willpower that earned a wave of applause from the viewers. “This whole tour I’ve been fighting what started here,” she mentioned. “And I would be damned if I wasn’t coming back here.”
Nicks has been on the highway for greater than two years now and can conclude her globe-spanning tour in September when she performs two make-up dates in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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