The Rolling Stones Reportedly Scrap U.K., European Tour Plans

The Rolling Stones have reportedly shelved a forthcoming U.K. and European tour planned for 2025. According to the Times, the rock band has scrapped the idea of hitting the road later this year.

The report says that the group – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood – were presented with several offers for shows over the summer but dismissed them due to logistical issues surrounding the venues and travel, as well as pre-existing commitments.

The shows included a “proposed multimillion-pound visit to Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium,” which the band members rejected. The band would have performed four concerts at the stadium in London if accepted. The Times notes that the Rolling Stones were also offered tour dates in Paris, Barcelona, and Rome.

The Times adds that the band still plans to tour in 2026, both in the U.K. and elsewhere, and that fans remain hopeful Wood will appear with Rod Stewart during the Legends slot at Glastonbury in June.

The group has yet to officially confirm the reports. A representative for the band did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

The Rolling Stones last toured in 2024 on their 2023 effort, Hackney Diamonds, including 20 concerts in North America. According to the Times, 880,000 tickets were sold for those shows, generating $235 million. The tour was a massive production, involving rehearsals of more than 60 songs from the band’s catalog after the album’s launch in London and a pop-up concert in New York City.

“I never want it to look too slick,” lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe told Rolling Stone of the tour. “This band is really authentic. Audiences will always be able to spot whether a performance is the real thing or not. It may be the soundtrack for the lives of the people in the audience, but it’s also the soundtrack of the Stones’ lives. They gift us their music, and that’s the real embrace. That’s the real thing.”

He added, “You will never know when the Stones are going to do their last performance. None of us will. And not because there’s any mystique about it, it’s just the way they work. They finish a tour and go off on holiday and the tour promoters will offer them some new dates, they’ll go, ‘Yes,’ and off we’ll go.”