Morrissey has spent more time cancelling concerts than performing them lately. In the past three weeks, the artist has nixed almost all of the shows he scheduled on the final seven-show stretch of the North American tour he began in September. He made it onto the stage in San Antonio and Oklahoma City, but pulled the plug on San Diego, St. Louis, Atlanta, the Dominican Republic, and now St. Petersburg.
Only one show remains on the tour. Morrissey is scheduled to appear in Hollywood, Florida, on Jan. 22. No explicit explanation was provided for the latest cancellations.
Fans who secured tickets to see Morrissey perform at the Show at Agua Caliente Casino Rancho Mirage in California on Jan. 3 might still have a chance to catch him. It’s the only performance that has been postponed (“due to an adverse reaction to a prescription medication,” according to the venue website) rather than outright cancelled. A new date has not been set, but fans can request a refund through Feb. 2.
Morrissey typically checks in with fans through the message board on his Morrissey Central website. He last wrote to them about a cancellation on Jan. 15 in a post titled “Flu in St. Lou.” “As predicted by your parents, I apologize deeply … but it IS -44 degrees outside, and EVERYONE is hacking themselves to death, and I am, regrettably, human,” he wrote at the time. “I am doing my small and pathetic best. From tomorrow, Atlanta is our mantra.”
Atlanta was not, in fact, our mantra. On the eve of the concert, which was scheduled for Saturday, Fox Theatre announced the show would not go on “due to artist illness.”
In the midst of his botched tour, Morrissey announced a new album. On March 6, assuming all goes as planned, the artist will release Make-Up Is A Lie. The record will mark his first full-length LP in six years.
Morrissey originally called the new album You’re Right, It’s Time, but that was back when he was still looking for a distributor who would be willing to release it. There was another album, Bonfire of the Teenagers, that was also stalled, the artist has said. In 2024, Morrissey claimed that “nobody will release my music anymore because I’m a chief exponent of free speech.” Make-Up Is A Lie will arrive via Sire/Warner Bros.
