PHIL JAMIESON CANCELS PJ AIR TOUR FOLLOWING ON-STAGE ACCIDENT

PHIL JAMIESON CANCELS PJ AIR TOUR FOLLOWING ON-STAGE ACCIDENT

PHIL JAMIESON photo credit: Laura May Grogan

Flying into the release week of his anticipated sophomore album 10CHARLIE (out Friday Aug 14), beloved Australian singer, songwriter and Grinspoon frontman, Phil Jamieson has announced the cancellation of his 2026 PJ AIR Tour following an on-stage accident that resulted in a fractured L1 vertebra.

Sharing the news with fans, Phil said:

“On Friday night I slipped on stage and my spine connected to the drum riser.

I was unable to continue with the gig and got an ambulance to Latrobe Hospital.

I spent most of Friday in emergency getting different tests etc and by 4am I was confirmed to have fractured my L1 (lower back guy), with a prescription of bed rest and a long road to recovery.

This means, sigh, that the tour is cancelled 🙁

Venues/ticketing agencies should be in contact with you for refunds. No-one is more bummed about this than me, but I can’t stand up let alone play a gig at the moment.

ALBUM is still out on Friday. While we won’t be launch partying together anymore…if you feel like wrapping your earholes around It, I would be grateful. Lots of work went into it and I love it.
Thanks to all who reached out. News travels fast in this game and I appreciate all the well-wishes and kind offers of help. A big thank you to all of team at Latrobe Regional Hospital who took such elite care of me, including my paramedics Renae & James, and my discharge nurse Andrew.

I hope to see you all soon. Love, PJ in my pjs for the foreseeable future x”

Venues and ticketing agencies will be in touch with ticketholders to issue refunds.

Featuring recent singles Weekends, Blue As The Sunlight and Reading Keats In Byron Bay, 10CHARLIE sees Phil embracing a deeply personal chapter, blending his unmistakable rock sensibilities with warmth, melody, humour and moments of vulnerability. Opening with the glistening boldness and rollicking heart of a Springsteen showstopper via Get It, 10CHARLIE weaves through effortless warmth and nostalgic lyricism on Reading Keats In Byron Bay, the familiarity of restlessness and surreal journeys on Weekends, vulnerable audacity with Eager Beaver and swooning whimsy on Kissed & Found Your Own. From here, 10CHARLIE delves into textured and emphatic wonderlands on Blue As The Sunlight, heady melodies and magnetic storytelling on Nothin’ To Lose, stripped-back acoustic bliss that builds into an ethereal closer with What Happened To Us? and, ultimately, a return to earth with the soft ambience of closing track The Soft Return.

For now, Phil’s plans involve plenty of rest, recovery and, in his own words, being “PJ in my pjs” for the foreseeable future.

 

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