Guns N’ Roses Announce 2025 Middle East/Europe Tour

Guns N’ Roses are returning to the road in 2025 to play a European and Middle East tour dubbed “Because What You Want, What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things,” headlining stadiums and festivals throughout the summer.

Special guests on the tour include Public Enemy, Rival Sons, and Sex Pistols featuring, Frank Carter on select dates.

Kicking off May 23, 2025, the 24-date run will see the LA legends perform in Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Luxembourg for the first time.

The 2025 dates also see Guns N’ Roses return to familiar stages in Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland , Poland, Hungary, and Austria. Full itinerary below.

The grand finale of the tour will take place in Germany’s metal mecca Wacken, where Guns N’ Roses will headline the 34th edition of Wacken Open Air, July 31. The festival’s founders are both thrilled to welcome the band to the world-famous metal gathering for the first time in history.

Guns N’ Roses didn’t tour this year, after a continent-crossing world tour between June and October 2023. The band’s most recent box office report submitted to Pollstar is from two sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 1-2, 2023, moving 25,267 tickets at a $4,260,520 gross.

The rock legends ranked 15th on Pollstar’s 2023 year-end worldwide artists chart, with a total of 1,256,922 tickets sold, and a gross of $135,235,227, based on 47 boxoffice reports submitted to Pollstar for the period. That’s an average of 26,185 tickets, and a $2,817,400 gross per show.

The band is repped by UTA’s Ken Fermaglich in North America, and ITB’s Rod MacSween in the rest of the world.

The pre-sale for members of the Guns N’ Roses fan club Nightrain kicks off Dec. 10.

Guns N’ Roses “Because What You Want, What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things” tour:

May 23 – Kingdom Arena – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
May 27 – Etihad Arena – Abu Dhabi, UAE
May 30 – Shekvetili Park – Shekvetili, Georgia

June 2 – Tüpraş Stadyumu – Istanbul, Turkey
June 6 – Estádio Cidade de Coimbra – Coimbra, Portugal
June 9 – Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys – Barcelona, Spain
June 12 – Firenze Rocks – Florence, Italy
June 15 – Rock For People – Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
June 18 – Merkur Spiel-Arena – Dusseldorf, Germany
June 20 – Allianz Arena – Munich, Germany
June 23 – Villa Park – Birmingham, UK
June 26 – Wembley Stadium – London, UK
June 29 – Eskelunden – Aarhus, Denmark

July 2 – Granåsen Ski Centre – Trondheim, Norway
July 4 – Strawberry Arena – Stockholm, Sweden
July 7 – Ratina Stadium – Tampere, Finland
July 10 – Darius and Girėnas Stadium – Kaunas, Lithuania
July 12 – PGE Narodowy – Warsaw, Poland
July 15 – Ferenc Puskás Stadium – Budapest, Hungary
July 18 – USCE Park – Belgrade, Serbia
July 21 – Vasil Levski Stadium – Sofia, Bulgaria
July 24 – Ernst Happel Stadium – Vienna, Austria
July 28 – Luxembourg Open Air – Luxembourg
July 31 – Wacken Open Air – Wacken, Germany

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