{"id":37688,"date":"2025-09-21T06:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/morrissey-cancels-us-shows-after-death-threat-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:41:45","slug":"morrissey-cancels-us-shows-after-death-threat-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/morrissey-cancels-us-shows-after-death-threat-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey cancels US shows after death threat in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">British artist Morrissey has cancelled two shows in the US after receiving a death threat ahead of a concert in Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A 26-year-old Ottawa man was released on bail after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/morrissey-alleged-death-threat\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\">allegedly uttering a threat to kill the singer<\/a>, whose real name is Steven Morrissey, ahead of his performance at a music festival last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The event went on as planned, but the singer later cancelled two shows in Massachusetts and Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Morrissey was the front man of the rock band The Smiths, but left the band in 1987 to pursue a solo career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He is known for being outspoken on issues such as animal welfare and politics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">In 2006, he refused to tour in Canada in protest at the annual seal hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">After the threat against his life in Ottawa last week, he cancelled Friday&#8217;s show in Connecticut and one in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey&#8217;s life,&#8221; said a statement from the Boston venue on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and the band, tomorrow&#8217;s engagement at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway has been canceled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2jjer23ngo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British artist Morrissey has cancelled two shows in the US after receiving a death threat ahead of a concert in Ottawa, Canada. A 26-year-old Ottawa man was released on bail after allegedly uttering a threat to kill the singer, whose real name is Steven Morrissey, ahead of his performance at a music festival last week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37690,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions\/37690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}