Clairo has cancelled the last three dates of her current North American tour, after a technical incident at her gig in Toronto left her with temporary hearing damage.The ‘Sling’ singer-songwriter was performing at Toronto’s History venue on Wednesday (July 27) when an unspecified error with her in-ear monitors caused them to become unbearably loud.
Though she was unable to identify what the issue was, Clairo explained to fans on social media that “the sound totally blew out my ears”, forcing her to end the set early as she “already [has] some preexisting damage to my ears” and “couldn’t risk anything more”.toronto – i’m so beyond sorry for being unable to finish tonights show.
something happened with my in-ears (not sure what yet) and the sound totally blew out my ears. i already have some preexisting damage to my ears so i couldn’t risk anything more.
love you and i’m sorry.— claire cottrill (@clairo) July 28, 2022Clairo updated her worried fans again overnight, noting that she “was at the doctors all morning getting my ears checked out” and although she’ll make a full recovery, she’s been “put on a restriction of ‘no loud noise for 5 days’”.
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