Rocketing costs and drop in ticket sales force musicians to pull tour dates

Animal Collective, Bonobo and Mercury prize winner Little Simz among acts to cancel concerts

Musicians are cancelling concerts and entire tours because the rising costs of staff and materials coupled with a drop off in ticket sales is making them too expensive to run.

Earlier this month, US band Animal Collective cancelled forthcoming European dates asnot sustainable". Within days, the UK downtempo producer Bonobo called time on future live shows in America, describing them as exponentially expensive". Then electronic musician Tourist rescheduled a US stint, saying sometimes tickets just don't get sold".