Morrissey Nixes Stockholm Show, Rails Against Lack Of ‘Music Industry Support’

A “travel-weary” Morrissey canceled his June 23 performance in Stockholm and railed about a lack of financial support from the music industry.

Posting on his website, the enigmatic 66-year-old former Smiths frontman, in signature style, lamented the cancelation.

“The pain at not reaching Stockholm this week is horrific for the band and crew. I know it’s impossible for people to understand, but we dream of Stockholm, Reykjavik, Trondheim, Helsinki, Aarhus … but there is no financial support from imaginary record labels to get us to such places. In the last seven days we have traveled into six countries, and we are travel-weary beyond belief. We can barely see. We pray to God that someone, somewhere can help us reach Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark … where we have thousands upon thousands of friends, yet absolutely zero music industry support. No label will release our music, no radio will play our music … and yet our ticket sales are sensational. What does this tell us about the state of Art in 2025?,” he wrote.

Ticketholders for the show, scheduled for the 8,300-cap and soon-to-be-demolished Hovet in Sweden’s capital city, were sent a message that cited “exhaustion among the band and crew,” and said refunds would be available at point of purchase.

The Continental leg of Morrissey’s current tour is indeed fairly rapid-fire. He played Madrid June 12, Paris June 15, Merksem, Belgium June 16 and Amsterdam June 19. The next stop is June 27 in Berlin.

The only reported ticket sales for this European tour came during the UK leg. Moz grossed $1,753,404 at Co-op Live in Manchester on a near-sellout of 17,129 tickets.

Dave Tamaroff at WME represents Morrissey.