Falling In Reverse have been compelled to postpone its extremely anticipated U.Okay. tour after frontman Ronnie Radke was denied a visa as a result of his prison historical past.
The tour, set to kick off in December 2024, was anticipated to be the band’s greatest but within the area, with sold-out exhibits deliberate throughout main venues. Nevertheless, the U.Okay. Residence Workplace’s strict visa rules have halted these plans, citing Radke’s prior conviction and jail sentence as grounds for denial.
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The band addressed the scenario by way of social media, stating that Radke’s previous continues to affect their means to tour internationally.
“We remorse to announce that the house workplace has denied Ronnie’s visa software for the remaining 2024 U.Okay. exhibits… The U.Okay. is at the moment refusing entry to visa candidates who served greater than 12 months jail time, as Ronnie did in 2008,” the assertion on their Instagram story learn.
“Due to this fact, we will be unable to come back to the U.Okay. this month to carry out the exhibits we had been significantly trying ahead to. We can be suspending the exhibits to subsequent yr whereas we proceed to work by means of this challenge legally to acquire the required visa.”
Radke’s authorized troubles hint again to a 2006 altercation in Nevada that led to the demise of 18-year-old Michael Prepare dinner. Whereas Radke was indirectly concerned within the deadly act, his participation within the combat resulted in a probation sentence.
In 2008, he violated that probation, serving over a yr in jail. Regardless of his efforts to rebuild his profession and status, the fallout from these occasions continues to solid a shadow over the band’s touring ambitions, significantly in international locations with stringent visa insurance policies just like the U.Okay.
The postponement is the most recent in a collection of disruptions for Falling In Reverse’s European tour. Current cancellations, together with a Vienna date, had been attributed to “production-related logistical points,” although followers expressed frustration over the dearth of readability. Radke’s abrasive response to a fan inquiry in regards to the Vienna cancellation—telling them to “go eat a f—ing Vienna sausage and shut the f— up”—did little to diffuse tensions.
Moreover, the band was just lately dropped from Austria’s Nova Rock Competition 2025 lineup, fueling hypothesis about ongoing friction between the band and European promoters.
Regardless of the setbacks, Falling In Reverse remains to be scheduled to tour Australia in March 2025, with no present indicators of disruption. The band are additionally set to carry out exhibits in Germany and Belgium in June.
For now, U.Okay. followers should wait till 2025 for one more alternative to see Falling In Reverse dwell.
Earlier this yr, Falling In Reverse’s newest album In style Monster secured the highest spot on Billboard’s Prime Onerous Rock Albums for the primary time and marked the band’s first launch since 2017. The band charted 4 prior entries on Prime Onerous Rock Albums, all of which debuted and peaked at No. 2: The Drug in Me Is You (2011), Fashionably Late (2013), Simply Like You (2015) and Coming Residence (2017).
