5 Seconds of Summer Cancels Tour Following Michael Clifford Sexual Assault Allegations

The ‘She Seems to be So Perfect’ band announce hiatus as they get in touch with off their approaching tour following sexual assault allegations that their frontman vehemently denied.

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5 Seconds of Summertime have postponed their North American and Australian tour and are “having time off” to “target on important matters away from the band” immediately after lead guitarist Michael Clifford was accused of sexual assault.

Earlier this month, June 2020, a lady, with the Twitter deal with @sophiecth5, came ahead to declare he’d assaulted her all through the band’s 2013 tour supporting One particular Way.

Clifford strenuously denied her claims in a post on Twitter, immediately after which the account that had initially tweeted the allegations was deleted, and shortly later on a user with the deal with @sophiectth5 tweeted that she’d actually been mistaken – and the particular person who assaulted her was, in actuality, anyone else.

Subsequent the incident, and amid the ongoing Covid-19 disaster, the team described their “No Shame Tour” dates would not be going in advance as prepared in August as they shared their “disappointment” above the conclusion.

In the Instagram post, they insisted that they have been prioritising “basic safety” and added that they, for now, are “having a little bit of time off.”

“Actively playing dwell demonstrates for our followers is what makes us want to be a band. When we are all unhappy to reschedule these demonstrates, the basic safety of our followers, touring crew and venue staff members will take precedence and we know this is the suitable conclusion,” the statement reads.

Nevertheless, the Less difficult stars discovered they have been equipped to incorporate excess demonstrates in numerous areas across Europe, the U.K. and in Philadelphia in the US up coming calendar year when they resume the trek.

“We are having a little bit of time off and focusing on important matters away from the band, but we’ll be back again pretty before long and continue to generate music and make preparations for this tour value the wait around,” they explained.