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SANDY — Jane says I'm done with this tour.
Jane's Addiction announced Monday that it has canceled the rest of its reunion tour, including its planned stop in Utah next month, after a viral confrontation between bandmates on Friday.
"The band (has) made the difficult decision to take some time away as a group. As such, they will be canceling the remainder of the tour," the group wrote in a statement.
The iconic alternative rockers were scheduled to play at Sandy Amphitheater on Oct. 4 as part of a second Western leg of the tour that started on Aug. 20.
Sandy Amphitheater officials acknowledged the cancelation on Monday, writing on social media that refunds would be "automatically processed" through points of purchase. People who purchased tickets through resale sites like StubHub and SeatGeek are encouraged to contact those companies directly for a refund.
Nothing's shocking about the news, as the decision was made a few days after the band's gig at Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston was cut short because of an onstage altercation between frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro.
Videos of the bizarre moment circulated online quickly. In a video uploaded to YouTube by user Brooksey, which now has over 1.4 million views, Farrell is seen aggressively bumping into Navarro as he plays before yelling at him and throwing a punch while Navarro tries to back him away.
Others on stage quickly intervened, telling him to stop before he was dragged off stage to a jeering crowd.
Farrell's wife, Etty Lau Farrell, wrote on Instagram that the scuffle was mostly over tour frustrations that boiled over following a complaint from the crowd Friday night.
"Perry's frustration had been mounting, night after night," she wrote. "He felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band. Perry had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat every night. But when the audience in the first row, started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was (playing) too loud and that they couldn't hear him, Perry lost it."
Perry Farrell publicly apologized to Navarro and fans on Monday, saying that his "breaking point resulted in inexcusable behavior," according to Billboard.
Still, the band — which has endured through multiple hiatuses since it formed in the 1980s — decided it was best to end the tour early.
The tour had been celebrated by fans as the first time the nearly original lineup had performed together since 2010. It started on Aug. 9, shortly after the band released "Imminent Redemption," its first single in over a decade.
The band is best known for songs like "Jane Says," "Stop!" "Been Caught Stealing" and "Just Because," all of which have topped alternative charts.
