US rapper Azealia Banks cancels Brisbane show, says Australia made her ‘utterly miserable’
Azealia Banks’ third show in Australia was cancelled after the US rapper made a video about why she hated the country.
US rapper Azealia Banks has cancelled another Australian show and said she won’t return because the country makes her “utterly miserable”.
Banks was due to perform in Brisbane at the The Tivoli on Tuesday night but took to Instagram to unleash on Australia before the promoter confirmed in a statement the show was cancelled and all ticketholders would be refunded.
It comes after her first concert in Melbourne on Saturday night was “postponed” just hours before she was set to take the stage at Festival Hall, citing visa issues. Banks has only made it to Sydney, where she performed at the Enmore Theatre.
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On Tuesday, the 31-year-old 212 hit maker aired her grievances with Australia.
“I’m so sorry you guys, actually I’m not sorry. But listen, last time I was in Brisbane and y’all threw s*** on the stage and damn near almost f***ing hit me in the face with a f***ing bottle of soda or whatever that s*** was,” she said in a video.
“That was the most like racist, most f***ing demoralising experience of my f***ing life and right now I’m on a really good track.”
She said she had “enough emotional intelligence to kind of erase room for error before it happens.”
“I am a beautiful black woman and I am not going to get in front of some audience of white people for them to be throwing s*** at me,” she said. “I am so not sorry. I am not sorry at all. Brisbane, y’all are just going to have to take the L and smoke it.”
She later followed up the video with a list of strict security measures that would need to be place for her to perform and said it would be her last time touring Australia.
But Point Productions then released a statement confirming the show would not go ahead “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
The company apologised to ticketholders for the inconvenience and said the situation was “well out of our control”.
Banks has previously criticised Australia, calling her performance at Splendour In The Grass in 2015 a “waste of my f***ing time”.
Reports from 2013 claim Banks walked off stage 90 seconds into her performance at the Listen Out Festival in Melbourne after a bottle was thrown at her, and 15 minutes into her 50-minute headline set in Sydney when a can of beer was thrown at her.
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