Morrissey has cancelled his fifth live show of 2026 – this time in St. Petersburg, Florida. Find all the details below.
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The soloist and former Smiths frontman, who has a reputation for axing and postponing gigs, had been scheduled to perform at the Duke Energy Center For The Arts’ Mahaffey Theater tonight (Tuesday January 20).
As Stereogum reports, today’s planned concert will no longer take place. The event was already a rescheduled date, after Morrissey scrapped a visit to the same venue last May.
According to fans on Reddit, the cancellation has been confirmed by the venue via email, citing “artist illness”.
A message on the Ticketmaster page reads: “Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event.
“You don’t need to do a thing. We’ll issue a refund to the original method of payment used at time of purchase, as soon as funds are received from the Event Organizer. It should appear on your account within 14-21 days.”
Morrissey is currently out on a US headline tour, which began in San Antonio, Texas, on January 10. It came shortly after he announced his new album ‘Make-Up Is A Lie’, and shared its title track.
However, the singer-songwriter went on to cancel subsequent performances in San Diego, St. Louis and Atlanta – with the latter also being due to “artist illness”. He postponed another show in California, too, following an “adverse reaction to a prescription medication”.
The US leg of Morrissey’s 2026 tour is currently set to conclude with a date in Hollywood on Thursday (January 22).
He’ll play his only UK gig of the year at The O2 in London on February 28, as part of his European tour. Find any remaining tickets here.
At his first gig of 2026, Morrissey played The Smiths’ ‘Paint A Vulgar Picture’ for the first time in almost 30 years.
The forthcoming ‘Make-Up Is A Lie’ sees him reunite with Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, The White Stripes, Weezer, My Morning Jacket), and return to La Fabrique Studios in southern France. Joining him on the instrumentation are Jesse Tobias, Camila Grey, Carmen Vandenberg, Juan Galeano, Alain Whyte, Gustavo Manzur and Brendan Buckley.
“I insist on being myself in spite of much discouragement, and this new music is a valid portrait of much more to come in 2026,” Morrissey wrote. “Born, then born, and born again. I am your lover-to-be.”
‘Make-Up Is A Lie’ is due for release on March 6 via Sire/Warner. Pre-order here. It marks Morrissey’s first solo record in six years, following on from 2020’s ‘I Am Not A Dog On A Chain’.
The singer-songwriter announced in 2024 that he had bought back the rights to his long-delayed ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ album, but it remains unclear if it will be released anytime soon.
