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Lykke Li's cancelled some festival appearances and is taking a bit of a break

  • January 5, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance

Lykke Li

'Du är den ende' chanteuse Lykke Li has pulled out of the forth­com­ing Laneway festival taking place in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore due to ill health.

In fact, if a post on her Instagram is anything to go by she's taking a bit of a break in general.

Li was due to headline the festival — which starts on January 26 — but as you can see from the statement below (as quoted here), she's not really feeling it anymore:

"I'm incred­ibly sorry to announce that I'm no longer able to play Australia, New Zealand and Singapore for Laneway Festival. It's been a long time coming, but unfor­tu­nately tour life has caught up with me and it's been recom­men­ded that I take break. I'm dev­ast­ated but I know I will return."

Meanwhile, this is what she said on Instagram just in case you don't believe her:

I AM UTTERLY DEVASTATED, SOMETIMES WE PUSH AND PUSH BUT THE BODY SIMPLY WON'T FOLLOW. I GAVE IT ALL I HAD, MY BODY, HEART AND SOUL. AFTER 7 YEARS OF TOURING MY HEALTH IS SCREAMING/BEGGING FOR ME TO LISTEN/HEAL/SLOW DOWN.THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UNDERSTANDING. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY BLEEDING HEART AND WATCHING ME DANCE IN THE DARK THESE PAST YEARS. I LOVE YOU. I WILL COME BACK. STRONGER. BUT FOR NOW MY LOVES, I HAVE TO REST. U CAN'T ALWAYS "WIN".… TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES!!! YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME. CHOOSE LIGHT AND LIFE! LIFE IS EBB N FLOW, HIGH N LOW. BUT WE KEEP ON. I WILL MISS YOU SO. X photo:@sgrdrpl

A photo posted by Lykke Li (@lykkeli) on Jan 1, 2015 at 11:31pm PST

GET WELL SOON LYKKE LI!

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