The Harry offer came in and immediately King Princess wanted to do it, so we got to work on making it happen. It’s significant because Harry has been a supporter out of the gate. He reached out about her supporting his show at Madison Square Garden when “1950” came out, which was before she had played a single show as King Princess. To see it come back around, to have him be the first artist King Princess is fully supporting on a seven-week tour, just felt right.
In January, we were in the process of planning to confirm [August] dates for our first headline run in Asia and the Asian Pacific. We ultimately passed on that tour at the end of January because of the [coronavirus] activity we saw down there, while simultaneously feeling incredibly uninformed regarding the virus as a domestic threat. I’m a fairly paranoid guy, but industry people with a greater purview than mine seemed unalarmed by it all.
Our Lollapalooza South American run was the second thing to postpone, followed by the Strokes support — 24 hours before the show — and lastly, the Harry run. Now our entire touring schedule is basically pushed back to October 2020 until April 2021.Everything is pretty much at a standstill. Top-tier artists who put out albums just a few weeks ago are completely debilitated from marketing their music outside of radio promotion.