With the announcement of Morrissey‘s 2025 UK and Ireland tour, is a London date possible? Check out what the vocalist had to say below.
After teasing fans of big news, the former Smiths frontman turned soloist took to social media on Monday (February 10) to share a handful of dates which will see him stop in Glasgow, Manchester and Dublin in June.
The shows will mark the only time Morrissey will perform in Ireland, Scotland and England in 2025. General tickets will go on sale this Friday (February 14) at 9am local time and will be available here.
Today (February 12), Morrissey took to his official website to reveal if he had any plans for a gig in London. In a statement, the vocalist wrote “No London concert will be added to Morrissey’s upcoming run of Dublin, Glasgow and Manchester.”
The new announcement of tour dates come a week after the ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ singer announced plans for a North American run of live shows which are set to take place between April and May.
Those shows come following a brief stint of Los Angeles gigs to round off 2024, as well as a sold-out tour of North America in late October and November.
The new 2025 UK dates Morrissey’s first in the country since abruptly cancelling a show at London’s Crystal Palace back in April 2023. The gig was set for July 9, and around that same time, the singer announced a tour of the UK and Ireland, including a replacement date for July 9.
His July 9 show – which was set to take place at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall – was then cancelled, with the venues hosting the shows citing “unforeseen circumstances”.
Morrissey’s 2025 UK and Ireland tour announcement follows the new updates the singer has given over new material in recent months – namely the long-delayed album ‘Bonfire Of The Teenagers’.
He recorded the LP between 2020 and 2021, but 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 Issues with the record date back to 2022, when Morrissey revealed that he had “voluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records” – despite announcing that he would be releasing the LP with them just two months earlier.
Morrissey also revealed that Miley Cyrus had asked to have her backing vocals removed from the ‘Bonfire’ track ‘I Am Veronica’ which they had recorded back in 2020.
The singer went on to share a statement on his website around the status of ‘Bonfire’, accusing Capitol Records of “fascism” and having a “creeping culture of censorship”. He also said that he was “quickly coming around to” the belief that the brand only signed ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ “in order to sabotage it”.
He also took it a step further and alleged that the CEO of Capitol Records was trying to derail his career, before then taking to his website to say he was being “gagged” over the release of ‘Bonfire Of The Teenagers’.
‘Bonfire Of The Teenagers’ is the LP that Morrissey has previously described as being “the best album of my life”, and revealed that the title track revolved around “England’s 9/11” – the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017.
Issues with the album continued into 2024, with Morrissey buying back the rights to two of his albums in April of that year following a long-running dispute with Capitol Records. He described the situation to fans as “a long, hard, bloody war.”
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.”
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