{"id":98298,"date":"2025-10-02T03:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98298\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:41:15","slug":"lola-young-cancels-gigs-to-take-break-after-collapsing-on-stage-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98298\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Young cancels gigs to take break after collapsing on stage \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Singer Lola Young has cancelled all of her upcoming appearances and said she will be \u201cgoing away for a while\u201d days after she collapsed on stage during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/new-york-city\/\">New York<\/a> concert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Saturday, the Messy singer (24), could be seen swaying and falling backwards in viral videos captured during her slot at the All Things Go music festival at Forest Hills Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The next day she cancelled her Sunday slot at the same festival being held in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In an Instagram post on Tuesday, she said: \u201cI\u2019m going away for a while. It pains me to say I have to cancel everything for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThank you for all the love and support. I\u2019m so sorry to let anyone down who has bought a ticket to see me, it hurts me more than you know. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cObviously you will be entitled to a full refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI really hope you\u2019ll give me a second chance once I\u2019ve had some time to work on myself and come back stronger. Love you all, Lola x.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Also on Tuesday, the UK Music Video Awards announced its shortlist for 2025, with Young nominated in the best pop video category for her song One Thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pop singer collapsed while singing Conceited from her second studio album This Wasn\u2019t Meant For You Anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rapper Doechii, whose real name is Jaylah Hickmon, performed after Young and she got the crowd to shout \u201cwe love you Lola\u201d in support of her following the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She said: \u201cShe\u2019s an incredibly talented artist, and she wasn\u2019t feeling well tonight, and I\u2019m so glad you guys were there to support her and hold her up. Let\u2019s wish her the best, okay everybody?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Young, who is known for speaking out about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mental-health\/\">mental health<\/a> issues, had cancelled a performance at New Jersey\u2019s Prudential Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The music artist, who recently released her third studio album I\u2019m Only F****** Myself, was due to play venues around England and Scotland in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She also had tour dates booked for the US, Mexico and Canada in November and December as well as performances in South America and Europe for 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Young has had three UK top 40 singles and one top 10 album, and won The Ivors rising star award earlier this year. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Lola Young has cancelled all of her upcoming appearances and said she will be \u201cgoing away for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,977],"class_list":{"0":"post-98298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lola-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}