During a recent appearance on “The MetalSucks Podcast,” Napalm Death frontman Mark “Barney” Greenway revealed that members of the band ended up catching COVID-19 following their fall 2021 U.S. tour with GWAR. The positive cases resulted in the band having to stay in the States for an extra 10 days.
Greenway said the following
“The tour itself was great, but you had to be kind of a little bit vigilant to try as best you could to not be mixing with too many people who you didn’t know — for obvious reasons at this point in time. Which is completely alien to my way of doing things usually, but, of course, we completely understood why that needed to be the case. Unfortunately, it didn’t stop all of us from getting COVID right at the end of the tour, so that was rough [laughs], to say the least.”
He also added:
“[It happened] right at the end of the tour after we finished, actually. [That was] good in some ways but not in others. I mean, I had to stay over for 10 days in the States when I didn’t want to. And it was a big old financial hit for the band on top of everything else. The COVID tests that we had to do while in the States, the cost was eye-watering. We’d already got that, and then we had to pay for accommodation [at the end of the tour], and that was the financial hit. But on the other side of things, we got travel insurance, so we made sure that everybody got travel insurance, just in case they became hospitalized. Nobody did in the end, but we were covered for the hospitalization but not for the accommodation, so we still had to pay for that.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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