And fans are not happy

Mumford & Sons have postponed four dates in their UK tour, owing to “unforeseen logistical and technical challenges”.

The band launched the Delta tour in Dublin on Friday where they debuted a new stage, described the band as “groundbreaking”.

Posting on the band’s official Twitter account, they shared a statement explaining that the band will reschedule dates in Liverpool, Cardiff, Sheffield and Manchester to some point in 2019. You can read the full statement below.

The statement describes the Delta Tour as “by far the most ambitious show we’ve put together” and explains that production issues forced the band to reschedule. There is currently no word on the new dates.

Many fans have responded angrily to the announcement. One Twitter user called for the band to “just use a regular stage”.

Another fan described the delay as “totally unacceptable”. While Twitter user @mckeetomeheart blasted the last-minute postponement as ‘pretty amateur”.

The full statement from Mumford and Sons

It is with a really heavy heart that we have been forced to postpone four shows on this UK tour due to unforeseen technical and logistical challenges. As you may know, the Delta Tour is by far the most ambitious show we’ve put together and we have had to free up some space in the schedule to be able to execute it, given some obstacles that have come up in production.

As we also hope you know by now, we never postpone shows lightly, in fact it’s something we try to avoid at all costs – so this decision has been incredibly difficult to make but in this case we have no other choice. The truth is that it is simply not humanly possible to play these particular shows at this time and we are sorry the reality of that only truly landed after we completed Belfast yesterday.

We are therefore rescheduling our Liverpool, Cardiff, Sheffield and Manchester shows to 2019 & will share information on the new dates very soon.

Original tickets will be valid for the rescheduled dates and for those who may be unable to make the new dates, you will be offered a full refund from the point of purchase. Please head to our website for more info.

We are so sorry to need to do this, but we will see you soon.

In-store record signings this week will go ahead as planned:

Tuesday 20th

12:30pm Assai Records, Edinburgh (Marcus only)

5:30pm HMV, Glasgow (Band)

Wednesday 21st

5:30pm HMV, Manchester (Band)

Love, the lads x