Morrissey has announced a string of 2025 tour dates in the UK and Ireland which will kick off later this summer. Check out full dates and ticket details below.
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After teasing fans fans of big news, the former Smiths frontman turned solo icon took to social media to announce his latest live dates which will see him head over to Dublin on May 31 for a gig at the the 3Arena. From there, he will play two nights at the O2 Academy in Glasgow on June 4 and 5 respectively before wrapping up with a homecoming show at Manchester’s Co-Op Live on June 7.
Chicago quintet Brigitte Calls Me Baby will serve as opening support at the Dublin and Manchester dates. The shows will mark the only time Morriessy 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.
Morrissey’s 2025 UK and Ireland tour dates are:
MAY
31 – Dublin, 3Arena
JUNE
4 – Glasgow, O2 Academy Glasgow
5 – Glasgow, O2 Academy Glasgow
7 – Manchester, Co-Op Live
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 Issues with the record date back to 2022, when Morrissey revealed that he had “voluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records” – despite announcing that he would be releasing the LP with them just two months earlier.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.”
