Red Hot Chili Peppers lead singer expected to recover soon

Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer Anthony Kiedis is expected to make a full recovery after complications of intestinal flu sent him to the hospital and forced the cancellation of the band's show in Irvine, California, the band's website said on Sunday.

"Anthony is expected to make a full recovery soon," according to the notice posted on redhotchilipeppers.com, which thanked fans for their support and said the band would also cancel a concert scheduled for May 17.

Los Angeles radio station KROQ, which sponsors an annual event called Weenie Roast at which the band had been slated to appear Saturday night, announced the cancellation of the Irvine appearance on Twitter.

"Unfortunately due to illness the @ChiliPeppers were forced to cancel their set tonight at #WeenieRoast," the station said in its tweet.

Officials at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre confirmed the band's performance had been canceled and that Kiedis had been hospitalized but gave no further details, media reports said.

Billboard magazine reported that Kiedis was taken from the venue in an ambulance suffering from extreme stomach pain, citing a KROQ representative.

The band's website said the cause was complications from intestinal flu on Saturday evening.

"No one's more disappointed than us that we couldn't perform tonight. Sending love and a speedy recovery to my brother Anthony," Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith said on Twitter.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold more than 60 million albums, won six Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers excited to visit PH

MANILA – Members of Red Hot Chili Peppers expressed their excitement to visit the Philippines for the first time next year.

The American rock band will headline the first 7107 International Music Festival, which will be held on February 22 and 23 at the Global Gateway Logistics City in Clark, Pampanga.

In a video on the music festival’s Facebook page, band members Anthony Kiedis and Flea asked their fans in the Philippines to watch them perform.



“We’ve never gotten to come to the Philippines and we’re very excited,” said Flea in the video, which was uploaded on Sunday.

“We really hope that we get to see you in the 7107 festival,” he added.

Kiedis, for his part, said: “We’re very pleased to go to the Philippines… It’s going to be fun.”

Red Hot Chili Peppers is known for hits such as “Under the Bridge,” “Give It Away,” “The Zephyr Song,” “Scar Tissue” and “By the Way.”

The band contributed the song “Factory of Faith” to the “Songs for the Philippines” album, which aims to raise funds for survivors of super typhoon “Yolanda” (international name Haiyan).

Festival organizers recently released the initial lineup of artists for next year’s event. Some of the other performers include Empire of the Sun, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Natives, Up Dharma Down, Radioactive Sago Project, The Ringmaster, Yolanda Moon, Maude, Encounters with a Yeti, Musical O, Sleepwalk Circus, Hidden Nikki, Skymarines, Child/Ren of the Pilgrimage, The Charmes, Populardays, The Sleepyheads and Not Another Boyfriend.

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