AFI has cancelled their previously announced spot on the Australia/New Zealand-based Big Day Out tour. The news comes as the band continues to work on their upcoming full length follow up to Sing the Sorrow.

Jade explained:

No, we're not doing Big Day Out. We thought we were going to be finished with the album by then but we ended up doing a new song and so we couldn't make it. We will be going to Australia on our next headlining tour though.

The group recently contributed an unreleased track, titled "Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37," to the inaugural release from MySpace Records. The track appears on a compilation, titled Myspace Records, Volume 1 along with tracks from Weezer, Against Me! and Hollywood Undead.

The Big Day Out tour involves a six date jaunt through Australia and New Zealand and the 2006 edition will include Iggy and the Stooges, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, The Mars Volta, Sleater-Kinney, the Living End, Youth Group.