Jane’s Dependancy apologize after Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro combat

Jane’s Dependancy have apologized to followers for abruptly ending their Boston live performance after an altercation between lead singer Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro Friday evening.

“We need to prolong a heartfelt apology for the occasions that unfolded final evening,” the band wrote Saturday in an Instagram story. “Because of this, we shall be cancelling tomorrow evening’s present in Bridgeport.”

The live performance slated for Sunday at Connecticut’s Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater was the following cease on Jane Dependancy’s 2024 tour, their first to function the group’s unique lineup — Farrell, Navarro, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins — since 2010. Their web site nonetheless lists 14 extra upcoming reveals.

Through the incident, Farrell shocked the present’s crowd after he threw a punch at Navarro in direction of the tip of the band’s set.

Per fan-captured video footage, the charged second unfolded whereas the group was in the course of performing their music “Ocean Measurement.” Farrell might be seen strolling in direction of Navarro and shoving the guitarist’s shoulder. He then yells as Navarro, who makes an attempt to distance himself from Farrell, earlier than the singer hits Navarro’s chest. The assault prompted crew members and Avery to intervene, pulling a heated Farrell away from the guitarist.

Representatives for Farrell, Navarro, Jane’s Dependancy, and Stay Nation didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly‘s request for remark.

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Farrell’s spouse, Etty Lau Farrell, posted in regards to the incident on Instagram, writing on Saturday that “rigidity and animosity” had been brewing between the bandmates and explaining that her husband was upset in regards to the live performance’s sound ranges drowning out his vocals. This led to his assault on Navarro, whom Etty complimented for coolly dealing with the scenario. Nonetheless, she criticized Avery for taking “low cost photographs,” alleging that he put the singer in a headlock and punched him 3 times.

Describing the aftermath of the onstage fracas, she stated her husband was “a crazed beast for the following half an hour” earlier than he ultimately “did break down and cried and cried.”

Jane’s Dependancy cut up on the peak of their recognition in 1991 whereas organizing and headlining the first-ever Lollapalooza competition. Farrell and Perkins went on to kind Porno for Pyros, whereas Navarro and Avery briefly joined forces for the group Deconstruction. The band has reformed a number of instances through the years, usually with out Avery.