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04.07.2022 / 08:37
Adele discusses postponing Las Vegas residency: “I was a shell of a person for a couple of months”
Adele has opened up about being forced to postpone her Weekends With Adele Las Vegas residency earlier this year.The singer was due to start the residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on January 21, marking her first shows since 2017, and it was scheduled to extend through to April. She announced the postponement a day before the residency’s planned opening night with a video, saying the show was simply not ready.“We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID,” she explained at the time.In February, while appearing on The Graham Norton Show, she discussed how delays relating to COVID and equipment had meant that, if the gigs were to have taken place as scheduled, it “would have been a really half-arsed show, and I can’t do that”.Now, in a new interview with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4, Adele elaborated on the last-minute postponement.