They follow on from previously announced shows in the UK and Ireland

Morrissey has extended his upcoming 2025 solo tour, announcing 22 new dates across Europe. Find information and ticket details below.

News of the first run of dates was shared earlier this month, when the former Smiths frontman and soloist began teasing fans, saying big news was on the way. He later went on to share a handful of dates for Glasgow, Manchester and Dublin, taking place this June.

Now, he has confirmed dates for across the rest of Europe too – announcing 22 new shows that will be held across the summer. All of these follow on from the already announced UK dates, and kick off in Madrid on June 12.

From there, shows in Paris. Antwerp, Cologne, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and more are planned for the remainder of the month, before Morrissey extends the dates into July. Here, 11 shows have been added to the schedule, including stops in Vienna, Athens, Krakow and four cities across Italy.

The dates will wrap up with another night in Italy, this time held in Ostuni on August 3. Tickets for all new shows go on sale this Friday (February 21) at 12pm local time, barring Madrid, which will be available from Tuesday (February 25) at 12pm.

 

Visit here to buy tickets, and find an updated list of tour dates below.

Morrissey’s 2025 UK and European tour dates are:

MAY
31 – Dublin, Ireland

JUNE
04 – Glasgow, UK
05 – Glasgow, UK
07 – Manchester, UK
12 – Madrid, Spain [NEW]
15 – Paris, France [NEW]
16 – Antwerp, Belgium [NEW]
18 – Cologne, Germany [NEW]
19 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands [NEW]
21 – Copenhagen, Denmark [NEW]
23 – Stockholm, Sweden [NEW]
27 – Berlin, Germany [NEW]
28 – Leipzig, Germany [NEW]
30 – Munich, Germany [NEW]

JULY
3 – Krakow, Poland [NEW]
5 – Vienna, Austria [NEW]
8 – Belgrade, Serbia [NEW]
10 – Bucharest, Romania [NEW]
12 – Istanbul, Turkey [NEW]
16 – Athens, Greece [NEW]
19 – Sibenik, Croatia [NEW]
23 – Gardone Riviera, Italy [NEW]
26 – Lucca, Italy [NEW]
28 – Rome, Italy [NEW]
31 – Catania, Italy [NEW]

AUGUST
03 – Ostuni, Italy [NEW]

The news of the new tour dates also comes after the singer confirmed that no London shows will be taking place this year, and after fans took to social media to show their frustration over ticket prices.

All new shows are taking place following a brief run of Los Angeles gigs to round off 2024, as well as a sold-out tour of North America in late October and November.

Upcoming UK dates will be Morrissey’s first in the country since he abruptly cancelled a July 9 show at London’s Crystal Palace back in April 2023A replacement show was set for Nottingham on that same night, although that one was also cancelled, with the venues hosting the shows citing “unforeseen circumstances”.

The new announcements from the ‘80s icon also come amid drama following his long-mooted album ‘Bonfire Of The Teenagers’.

Morrissey performs live on stage at Wembley Arena
Morrissey performs live on stage. CREDIT: Jim Dyson/Getty Images

Recorded between 2020 and 2021, the LP has remained shelved by Capitol Records due to controversies around the artist. Issues with the record date back to 2022, when Morrissey revealed that he had “voluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records” – despite announcing that he would be releasing the LP with them just two months earlier.

Since then, things have escalated and Morrissey has said he was “quickly coming around to” the belief that the Capitol only signed ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ “in order to sabotage it”, and even alleged that the CEO of Capitol Records was trying to derail his career.

Issues continued into 2024, with Morrissey buying back the rights to two of his albums following a long-running dispute with Capitol. He described the situation to fans as “a long, hard, bloody war.” Then, last November, he told a crowd at one of his shows in the US that he was being prevented from releasing new music due to a war on “free speech“, saying: “You cannot speak freely in England. If you don’t believe me, go there. Express an opinion, you’ll be sent to prison. It’s very, very difficult.”

Reneé Rapp is seen as a “huge inspiration” by SZA.

The 25-year-old artist performed SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, accompanied by two acoustic guitarists and a harp player. SZA, 35, was deeply moved by the rendition.

She posted a short video of the moment on Instagram Stories and wrote: “Renee is a HUGE inspiration, energy, voice spirit.”

During her chat with the BBC, Renee shared her thoughts about the track. She said: “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”

Renee is currently in the middle of promoting her second album, Bite Me, and opened up about how much more enjoyable it was to create compared to her first project.

She explained: “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed.

“So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.”

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