John Spillane has cancelled his last four Australian shows this weekend.

The last four dates of John Spillane’s Australian tour have just been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.

No further details have as yet been revealed, but shows due to take place in Brisbane (tonight), Sydney (tommorrow), Melbourne (Saturday) and Perth (Sunday) have all been cancelled.

Further details will be posted here as they become available.

“Sad at disappointing  his Australian fans, John is hoping to be back here sometime soon,” a spokesperson for the Cork singer said this afternoon.

John Spillane returns to Australia this month.

Cork singer/songwriter John Spillane has returned to Australia for a month-long tour, and he couldn’t be happier about it.

He has fond memories of his first trip to Australia in October 2008, just one week after the death of his mother Mary.

“I landed in Perth, the most isolated city on Earth, and started my tour with the biggest gig of my life, which was singing the Irish National Anthem in the middle of the pitch in Subiaco Stadium, in front of 30,000 people, at the International Rules game between Ireland and Australia,” he told the Irish Echo.

“I was quite terrified, and my heart was beating in my breast like a bird trapped in a cage. Well it went very well; I chanted our Gaelic Anthem with great pride, and spurred the Irish team to victory by one point; that was my one!”

At the Tarrerer Festival, near Killarney in Victoria, Spillane was the only white artist on the bill. “I really enjoyed meeting and talking with the native Australians, and discovering about their culture, stories, mythology,” he said.

One of his Sydney shows will be performed entirely in Irish. “Most of my songs are in English but I also have quite an extensive repertoire in the Irish language,” he said.

“I usually include a few of these at my shows, but occasionally I am asked to do a full Gaelic gig for interested parties. It seems there are a group of Irish speakers in Sydney who have asked me to put on a Gaelic language gig for them and I will enjoy doing that.”

Regardless of whether you see him perform in Irish or English, you can be sure to hear many songs from Spillane’s hugely successful Irish Songs We Learned At School and More Irish Songs We Learned At School albums, such as his classic takes on Báidín Fhelimí, An Poc ar Buile and Dilín Ó Deamhas.

Spillane plays the Clarendon Guest House in Katoomba on June 16; Lambton Park Hotel, Newcastle on June 17; Penrith Gaels on June 18; the Canberra Irish Club on June 20; the Queensland Irish Association on June 24; The Harp in Tempe, Sydney on June 25; the Clifton Hill Hotel in Melbourne on June 26 and his final show at Rosie O’Grady’s in Perth on June 27.

Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane kicks off his Aussie tour on June 10.

Bantry singer-songwriter John Spillane returns to Australia in June as he kicks off his national tour at St Brigid’s Hall in Crossley, Victoria.

It’s a busy road ahead for the Corkman as he embarks on a monster trip that will take him through Portarlington (National Celtic Festival on June 11 – 14), Katoomba (June 16), Newcastle (June 17), Penrith (June 18), Wollongong (June 19), Canberra (June 20), Brisbane (June 24), Sydney (June 25), Melbourne (June 26) and Perth on June 27.

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