Morrissey announces December 2024 shows – including New Year’s Eve gig in LA

Morrissey has today (December 5) announces some new shows for later this month – including a New Year’s Eve gig in LA. Check out all the full details below.

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Posting on Instagram, the former Smiths frontman announced that he would be playing two gigs in LA on December 28 and 29 followed by a New Year’s Eve gig, also in LA.

A post stated that “Morrissey will be leading the countdown from stage, complete with midnight balloon drop.”

Tickets for all shows go on sale this Friday December 6 at 12pm PST (8pm UK time). You can purchase tickets for his gig on December 28 here; 29 here and New Year’s Eve show here.

Last month, Morrissey decried how a war on “free speech” has prevented him from releasing any new music, seemingly alluding to ‘Bonfire Of The Teenagers’, an album he recorded in 2021 and which remains unreleased.

Morrissey also reportedly fired his management team after Johnny Marr refuted several of Morrissey’s claims regarding The Smiths. In August, Morrissey had claimed that Marr had “ignored” a lucrative offer from AEG Entertainment Group to reunite the band. He then alleged that a Smiths ‘Greatest Hits’ album had been “blocked” by the guitarist.

Shortly after, Morrissey claimed that Marr now owns all of the “trademark rights and Intellectual Property” of The Smiths, and can tour as a band without him.

Last week, Morrissey responded to a Wikipedia page about him that listed him as an ex-member of two bands he claims he has “no connection” with, The Nosebleeds and Slaughter And The Dogs. It has been a long-held rumour by his fans that Morrissey wrote and recorded songs with the band. However, no such songs have ever surfaced.

Morrissey posted on his official blog on December 1 lamenting the inaccuracy of the entry on the online encyclopedia project, which is collaboratively edited and managed by its database of users.

“Wikipedia confidently list me as an ex-member of Slaughter And The Dogs, and an ex-member of The Nosebleeds,” Morrissey wrote.

“I did not ever join The Nosebleeds and I have no connection whatsoever with Slaughter And The Dogs. Is there anyone at Wikipedia intelligent enough to set the record straight? Probably not,” he added.