Morrissey has cancelled a pair of shows in California this week due to an “adverse reaction to a prescription medication”.
The former Smiths frontman had been due to play at Agua Caliente Casinos in Rancho Mirage tonight (January 3), but the venue’s official website now says the show has been postponed.
Sharing that the singer has had a reaction to his medication, it urged fans to hold onto their tickets as “they will be honored for a rescheduled date”, but refunds are available from the point of purchase.
Another gig at San Diego’s Civic Theater on Tuesday (January 6) has also been cancelled, although their website does not state a reason for the change.
He is down to play a string of US shows later this month, taking in dates in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Georgia and Florida, with those dates still scheduled to go ahead as planned.
These are far from the first gig cancellations from Morrissey recently – in November, he quietly called off a South American tour, citing “extreme exhaustion”, just days after two Mexican shows were cancelled for the same reason.
Last April, the singer called off two US shows after being hospitalised with “a severe sinusitis attack”, while a show in Stockholm in June was cancelled after the singer said his band were “travel-weary beyond belief” and had received “zero music industry support”.
In September, two more gigs in the US were called off after a “credible threat” was made on Morrissey’s life on Bluesky, while last month, two gigs in Turkey were cancelled, with fans speculating that they were scrapped due to the singer’s apparent support of Israel.
Morrissey recently announced his sole UK gig for 2026, to take place at The O2 in London on February 28 – find any remaining tickets for that show here.
In other news, he shared an apparent tracklisting on Christmas Day for a new album, alongside the logo for Sire Records. The 12-track list of song titles seems to represent a different album to his much-delayed ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ record, but no further details have yet been confirmed. A week earlier, a post on his website seemed to indicate that he had signed a deal with Sire.
Last summer, Morrissey shared a statement on his website around the status of ‘Bonfire…’, accusing Capitol Records of “fascism” and having a “creeping culture of censorship”. He further said he was “quickly coming around to” the belief that the company only signed ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ “in order to sabotage it”.
