The Kings of Leon frontman, Caleb Followill, has announced that the band have cancelled their UK and European shows this summer after he injured his foot in a “freak accident”.

The singer, who is part of the US rock group with his brothers Nathan and Jared Followill and cousin Matthew Followill, was scheduled to perform at Blackweir Fields, Cardiff and Lancashire’s Lytham festival over the next two months.

Followill said on Wednesday that his shattered heel injury was “serious” and needed “significant emergency surgery that will prevent him from travelling and performing”.

The singer, 43, posted a video to the band’s Instagram account, saying: “Unfortunately, I regret to inform you that those [European] shows will have to be cancelled due to a freak accident that happened the other da

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