Foo Fighters have announced that all of their upcoming tour dates are cancelled following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The band was due to perform their first UK dates since their headline slot at Reading & Leeds Festival in the summer of 2019, kicking off in June.
Hawkins’ death is still being investigated, with a statement released by the Colombian attorney general’s office on Twitter claiming he had ‘The statement, translated from the original Spanish, read: ‘On the initial forensic medical study of the body of Taylor Hawkins, drummer of the band Foo Fighters, who died yesterday in a hotel in the north of Bogotá, the Attorney General’s Office stated the...
‘In the urine toxicological test performed on the body of Taylor Hawkins, 10 types of substances were preliminarily found, including: THC , tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids. ‘The National Institute of Forensic Medicine continues the medical studies to fully clarify the events that led to the death of Taylor Hawkins.‘The Office of the Prosecutor of the Nation will continue with the investigation and will report the results obtained in the framework thereof in a timely manner.’
Foo Fighters had confirmed news of Hawkins’ death at the time, writing on social media: ‘The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins.
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