The iconic rock band Jane’s Addiction was supposed to have performed a 33-date North American tour in 2024, and tied it all up with a new album.
But it all came crashing down in September, when singer Perry Farrell attacked guitarist Dave Navarro onstage, suspending the Boston show and resulting in the cancellation of the tour.
Now, the California rockers are back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as they fight in the courts in parallel lawsuits.
As we can read in the Hollywood Reporter:
“Perry Farrell has filed a lawsuit of his own against Jane’s Addiction members Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins over the 2024 onstage altercation that derailed the band’s tour, his complaint coming just hours after the three members sued him earlier on Wednesday.”
Farrell argues that the other band members were the ‘original aggressors’, for their ‘years-long bullying campaign’, harassing him onstage, ‘playing their instruments at a high volume so that he could not hear himself sing without blasting his own in-ear monitors at an unsafe level’.
“Farrell claimed in the lawsuit that the band’s alleged harassment ‘escalated on September 13, 2024 to physical violence by Navarro and Avery against Farrell onstage during the Boston show and the assault of both Perry and Etty Lau Farrell backstage by Navarro’.”
Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro just got in a fight and the concert ended. pic.twitter.com/vCDOM0zBXG
— Rich Whitaker (@RMWhitaker) September 14, 2024
The suit was filed by the singer, his wife Etty Lau Farrell and the company Wilton Hilton Inc.
According to Farrell, the band ‘scapegoated’ him to cancel the rest of the tour.
“’Perry Farrell was blindsided by not being allowed either input into this decision or even to be heard, leaving him unable to plead his case to continue the tour for Janes Addiction’s fans’, the suit said. ‘Perry Farrell played no role whatsoever in these ill-conceived decisions utterly lacking in legal authority since he was not even consulted about cancelling the tour and would not have agreed to do so due to the financial and reputational consequences’.
[…] In the suit, Farrell denied that he ‘sucker punched’ Navarro backstage and alleged that Navarro ‘menacingly charged at and aggressively assaulted both Farrell and his wife Etty Lau backstage’.”
Read more:
Jane’s Addiction’s Members Sue Singer Perry Farrell for $10 Million Over 2024 Incident in Which He Punched Guitarist Dave Navarro Onstage and Collapsed Their Reunion Tour (VIDEO)
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