The Ghost Inside cancelled their 2024 North American tour, at the time citing their “physical health, mental health, and home lives.” The Ghost Inside has since returned to the stage, but never elaborated much on what happened with that tour.
Now in an interview with the BREWtally Speaking Podcast, The Ghost Inside guitarist and vocalist Chris Davis said the cancellation was pretty much to keep the band together. Davis notes that the band bit off more than they could chew and needs to be a little more conscious of how they use their time in the future.
“I’m proud of us for figuring out how to continue to enjoy, you know, what we do together as a band. Because it’s not always easy living on top of each other, for as long as you have to live on top of each other — especially when you’re fucking crippled and broken and normal everyday activities aren’t as easy as they used to be.
“The other side that too is, I’m really proud of us —and this is probably going to piss some people off — but again, I don’t fucking care, we, for the very first time, had to cancel a tour last year.
“And to be honest, had we not canceled that tour, we might not be a band right now. But that’s what I’m saying, is like we we had a very tough conversation of like, we bit off more than we could chew. We thought we were ready to get back to touring the way that we used to tour before the accident. And our bodies are telling us right now that you’re not capable of doing that.
“And that fucking… A: That’s a blow to the ego, big time, right? Like, that’s a massive ego blow to know that, this is how I used to do it, and I thought that I could handle it that way, but I can’t. And obviously, you know, you’re going to piss a lot of people off when you cancel a tour. You’re going to piss off promoters, you’re going to piss off your agent, you’re going to piss off your manager, and you’re going to piss off fans. Like nobody wants to piss off fans.
“But we had to just look at each other and be like, we’re hanging on by a thread physically. A lot of us have a lot of shit going on at home, and we’re all hanging on by a thread emotionally, and mentally, and we just have to admit defeat here, go home and reset. And I feel like, you know, 10 years ago, we may have pushed through that, and maybe we would have survived, and maybe we wouldn’t have.
“But I’m proud of us now for looking at that and being like, we thought we could do it the way we used to, we can’t. We have to be more conscious about this moving forward and not biting off more than we can chew, and we have to go home for ourselves right now. Because I can tell you right now, like, I sincerely mean this, I think that the likelihood of the band breaking up by the end of that next tour was pretty significant.
“And it’s not that we had an issue with each other, it’s that we were physically fucking worn out, and literally all five of us had fucked up shit going on at home that we were trying to handle, while also physically feeling like shit every day, and knowing that we had another month of that that we were basically gonna go straight into is like, there’s no way we’re gonna make it to the end of this.
“And so I’m just, I’m proud of us for being like, ‘gotta pump the brakes.’ And let’s pump the brakes, admit defeat here, go home, reset, put it behind us, and move on into the future. And like I said, I don’t think that 10 years ago, I don’t think that we would have made that decision. I think we would have tried to push through it, and it probably would have ended poorly. So I’m proud of us for being honest enough with each other to just be like we got to call it on this one.”
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