The Rolling Stones tour, as rumoured for Europe May-July 2026, will NOT go on as planned. The tour is off, no further news are available now.

There is no drama, no serious matters reported, it is just that they were not ready to commit to 3+ months of rehearsals and touring next summer in Europe.

Feel free to comment on what might be next here.

The old tour talk thread is now closed, with 21 pages and more than 600 comments. For reference it is linked up here:

The Rolling Stones Rumoured European Tour 2026 Talks (Thread Closed)

Dec 18, 2025 UPDATE:

USA Today quoting Rolling Stones P.R. Manager Bernard Doherty, saying:

"Nothing was confirmed but when they properly sat down to discuss the tour, Keith said he didn't think he could commit and wasn't keen on a big stadium tour for over four months at this time"." "Though "it's hard for their fans," Doherty said, "The Stones will get back onstage when they're good and ready."

Rolling Stones opt out of tour, waiting until 'they're good and ready' (USA Today Dec 18, 2025)

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My guess is either:

1) the album release is pushed back a couple of months so is the tour
2) they decided to follow Hackney Diamonds schedule: first album and 6 months later the tour - so maybe we will get the album in April/May and tour in the fall?

A tour in the autumn would be perfect, indoors and dark from the start

My feeling is that there will be no more tours. They ditched 3 planned tours in the last 3 years. My feeling is they'll release the new album as planned in spring and focus on promoting the new album, selling merchandise, vault releases and more. I doubt there will be one off shows. They never did such things beside the Racket show. The only small chance I see when they really want to play again is something like 4 shows in one place, maybe the O2 in London. If that will happen later this year they might even shift the album release a bit. But who knows...

My guess and hope is that it was Mick’s call to go for a European tour like in 2017. Do a proper launch of the new album in may, enjoy his World Cup in the US with his kids. And then soon after rehearsals. Which seems to make sense to me with his preferences we know of.

Hopefully they'll put a real effort into the promotion of their new album. Despite not been a fan of Fallon, I did admittedly enjoy the Hackney Diamonds press conference at the Empire. The sit-down went really well and it was enjoyable.

I have no idea whether they'll perform live again, but I can't imagine another tour now.

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My feeling is that there will be no more tours. They ditched 3 planned tours in the last 3 years. My feeling is they'll release the new album as planned in spring and focus on promoting the new album, selling merchandise, vault releases and more. I doubt there will be one off shows. They never did such things beside the Racket show. The only small chance I see when they really want to play again is something like 4 shows in one place, maybe the O2 in London. If that will happen later this year they might even shift the album release a bit. But who knows...

What about the 2012 concerts (O2 x 2, Berkeley Center x 1, Prudential Center x 2) ? Are they not a handful of one-off gigs? Or are they a mini-tour? Mini-tour is still a tour.

Also I see the two Hyde Park appearances 2013 are one-off shows although they are technically part of the British Summer Time festival.

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My feeling is that there will be no more tours. They ditched 3 planned tours in the last 3 years. My feeling is they'll release the new album as planned in spring and focus on promoting the new album, selling merchandise, vault releases and more. I doubt there will be one off shows. They never did such things beside the Racket show. The only small chance I see when they really want to play again is something like 4 shows in one place, maybe the O2 in London. If that will happen later this year they might even shift the album release a bit. But who knows...

What about the 2012 concerts (O2 x 2, Berkeley Center x 1, Prudential Center x 2) ? Are they not a handful of one-off gigs? Or are they a mini-tour? Mini-tour is still a tour.

Also I see the two Hyde Park appearances 2013 are one-off shows although they are technically part of the British Summer Time festival.

Glastonbury & the 2 Hyde Park shows in 2013 immediately followed a 20 odd date Arena tour of the US & Canada so they were well rehearsed and performance ready. In face the last show in the US was only 5 days before Glastonbury. Those shows in reality were far from one offs.

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My feeling is that there will be no more tours. They ditched 3 planned tours in the last 3 years. My feeling is they'll release the new album as planned in spring and focus on promoting the new album, selling merchandise, vault releases and more. I doubt there will be one off shows. They never did such things beside the Racket show. The only small chance I see when they really want to play again is something like 4 shows in one place, maybe the O2 in London. If that will happen later this year they might even shift the album release a bit. But who knows...

What about the 2012 concerts (O2 x 2, Berkeley Center x 1, Prudential Center x 2) ? Are they not a handful of one-off gigs? Or are they a mini-tour? Mini-tour is still a tour.

Also I see the two Hyde Park appearances 2013 are one-off shows although they are technically part of the British Summer Time festival.

Glastonbury & the 2 Hyde Park shows in 2013 immediately followed a 20 odd date Arena tour of the US & Canada so they were well rehearsed and performance ready. In face the last show in the US was only 5 days before Glastonbury. Those shows in reality were far from one offs.

Okay then.
Hyde Park 1969 was definitely one-off

Reading between the lines I think the Stones feel they can't deliver the standard they want to. This will not improve by time, it will only get worse every day.

I have never said it before, but here we go; I think it's over.

Even worse.. and it's just statistics... If you have 3 people aged 79,81 and 82, the statistics say that there is a 19% chance for .... i don't want to say the word. Let alone not being able to perform due sickness or injury. Most of the recent tours have been resheduled or did not live to reach the anouncement date.

Time is not on their side.

I would really hope for some smaller scale gigs. These would be physically less demanding, and due to scale and insurance, much more easy to plan on late notice. Stadium days are over.

If Jagger really thinks they are not up to it now (and last year), I fear we have seen the last full gig performance of them.

something i'd like to see but i know is not likely is them taking a page of sorts from the licks tour but on a much smaller scale

instead of touring a country or continent for months living out of hotels and constatly traveling instead pick two cities and tour them instead playing 3-5 shows each in multible different types of venues (stadiums, arenas, theatres, clubs) varying the setlists depending on the type of venue

let's say the cities are new york and london since they have homes near those places they can go back to after shows and friends and family they can visit too

they could film and record it all and release it as a big boxset like four flicks

it's not quite a tour or a residency but something ambitious and interesting but that dosen't include a ton of travel and months away from friends and family

There's an album waiting to be released, of course. It will be released with the necessary promotion, perhaps with a Racket-style show. And who knows, maybe things will fall into place afterward and they'll pick it up again.

If they do decide that proper touring isn't an option anymore (which would be understandable given their age and the circumstances surrounding it), I hope they can play a few farewell shows at a nice venue. I don't know if I'd go myself, but I know there are thousands of Stones fans who would kill to see them live one more time. Give enough shows so that everyone who wants to can go, broadcast it live, make a good recording of it, and enjoy your well-deserved rest. Then it's time to finally let some moss grow on those stones.

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I would really hope for some smaller scale gigs. These would be physically less demanding, and due to scale and insurance, much more easy to plan on late notice. Stadium days are over.

Yep - it seems the times of tours with 14-20 gigs are over. An alternative could be a handful of shows, as they did end of 2012.

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My feeling is that there will be no more tours. They ditched 3 planned tours in the last 3 years. My feeling is they'll release the new album as planned in spring and focus on promoting the new album, selling merchandise, vault releases and more. I doubt there will be one off shows. They never did such things beside the Racket show. The only small chance I see when they really want to play again is something like 4 shows in one place, maybe the O2 in London. If that will happen later this year they might even shift the album release a bit. But who knows...

What about the 2012 concerts (O2 x 2, Berkeley Center x 1, Prudential Center x 2) ? Are they not a handful of one-off gigs? Or are they a mini-tour? Mini-tour is still a tour.

Also I see the two Hyde Park appearances 2013 are one-off shows although they are technically part of the British Summer Time festival.

Glastonbury & the 2 Hyde Park shows in 2013 immediately followed a 20 odd date Arena tour of the US & Canada so they were well rehearsed and performance ready. In face the last show in the US was only 5 days before Glastonbury. Those shows in reality were far from one offs.

Okay then.
Hyde Park 1969 was definitely one-off

You're right, they did a one off show 56 years ago when they were in their 20s. They did Knebworth 76 with a Gap of two months after a tour and again two shows at the El Mocambo 6 months later. They did 2 Shows in one single day in 1979 without Touring. And they did 3 songs in 2005 at Juillard School.

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My feeling is that there will be no more tours. They ditched 3 planned tours in the last 3 years. My feeling is they'll release the new album as planned in spring and focus on promoting the new album, selling merchandise, vault releases and more. I doubt there will be one off shows. They never did such things beside the Racket show. The only small chance I see when they really want to play again is something like 4 shows in one place, maybe the O2 in London. If that will happen later this year they might even shift the album release a bit. But who knows...

Sad Sad Sad - but right.

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Reading between the lines I think the Stones feel they can't deliver the standard they want to. This will not improve by time, it will only get worse every day.

I have never said it before, but here we go; I think it's over.

Even worse.. and it's just statistics... If you have 3 people aged 79,81 and 82, the statistics say that there is a 19% chance for .... i don't want to say the word. Let alone not being able to perform due sickness or injury. Most of the recent tours have been resheduled or did not live to reach the anouncement date.

Time is not on their side.

I would really hope for some smaller scale gigs. These would be physically less demanding, and due to scale and insurance, much more easy to plan on late notice. Stadium days are over.

If Jagger really thinks they are not up to it now (and last year), I fear we have seen the last full gig performance of them.

But aging does not happen overnight. If Jagger thinks "they are not up to it now (and last year)" why would they start booking stadium tour? The fact that the dates started leaking means the booking process was well advanced and running for a couple of months now, including medical checkups, insurance, logistics. It seems that 2-3 weeks ago they thought they could pull off the full stadium tour and now suddenly they do not. If it's not health related then it could be an album delay or change of strategy (residences instead of tour?).

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Reading between the lines I think the Stones feel they can't deliver the standard they want to. This will not improve by time, it will only get worse every day.

I have never said it before, but here we go; I think it's over.

Even worse.. and it's just statistics... If you have 3 people aged 79,81 and 82, the statistics say that there is a 19% chance for .... i don't want to say the word. Let alone not being able to perform due sickness or injury. Most of the recent tours have been resheduled or did not live to reach the anouncement date.

Time is not on their side.

I would really hope for some smaller scale gigs. These would be physically less demanding, and due to scale and insurance, much more easy to plan on late notice. Stadium days are over.

If Jagger really thinks they are not up to it now (and last year), I fear we have seen the last full gig performance of them.

But aging does not happen overnight. If Jagger thinks "they are not up to it now (and last year)" why would they start booking stadium tour? The fact that the dates started leaking means the booking process was well advanced and running for a couple of months now, including medical checkups, insurance, logistics. It seems that 2-3 weeks ago they thought they could pull off the full stadium tour and now suddenly they do not. If it's not health related then it could be an album delay or change of strategy (residences instead of tour?).

I agree it's strange that they were booking a tour. I also thought that they would decide they were up for it and then book the tour. Not booking a tour and then deciding.

But this is how it works. You book a tour and have a go/no-go moment. If too much things point at the wrong direction it's a no-go. George made a very good comment about this.

As Keith lives in the U.S.and flew home after gigs on the last tour . Mick will be there for the World Cup, so maybe some U.s. shows.
Though I agree with PMMB, I think Stadium days are over .

As Keith lives in the U.S.and flew home after gigs on the last tour . Mick will be there for the World Cup, so maybe some U.S. shows.
Though I agree with PMMB, I think Stadium dates are over .



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I think the best we can hope for now is a micro-gig like last time to launch the follow-up to Hackney Diamonds.

Hope I'm wrong - but if they decide it's best to bow out at the top then so much the better for them, even if it's hugely sad for us as fans.

Rehearsals for a one-off show or even a short series in one location take as long as those for a full tour, so I really don't see either happening. Maybe a few songs to promote the new album, but I fear that most of us have seen our last Stones show. Wishing them a long and happy retirement (I'm sure enjoying mine).

Limited information naturally leads to speculation. There is so much passion around this band. But a few things are certain: 1) They were well down the path of setting up a Europe/UK tour. 2) For some reason the pulled the plug even though there were in the process of putting together the details. 3) Whatever the underlying reason is, for now at least only the inner circle knows. 4) And of course most obviously, they're into their 80s now and even if the underlying reason is a health concern, eventually the stamina and energy to put on a Rolling Stones show just isn't there any more.

What we know for almost certain: They won't tour in 2026. The intent was to do Europe/UK and they do outdoor show, they won't do this in November/December.

What we'll speculate on: It's not hard to imagine that touring in the conventional sense may be over. Residencies at arena level venues (O2, Madison Sq Garden etc.) could be possible with a narrower stage, less travel, etc. But that could still be too much a grind at this point. And even a 90 minute show takes a ton of energy. One off shows could happen, but it doesn't seem to make sense to do the rehearsals necessary to get it dialed in. I suppose one off shows of pure warhorses that would require minimal rehearsal or no rehearsal could happen, but why would they do this? They can't wait decades like Led Zeppelin. It's obvious that Keith and Ronnie like getting up on stage and stepping in for guest spots. And I suspect they'll continue to do this. But a Rolling Stones show is a very different thing.

I know there's nothing new in what I said. It's just a recap of what many of us are thinking. And like all of us, if this is it, I'm immensely grateful for my 55 year journey, going back to 1969 seeing the band so many times. So many great memories. Too many to count, but if you're still reading this, I'll share one more. I love the song Monkey Man. Show after show, year after year, tour after tour, I never got it live. Sometimes I missed it by one show. I've seen about 12 shows on LDs. I had been pretty lucky. I almost always got really good lower bowl seats. But never the pit. Last year, in L.A. when I got to the window, it finally happened. There they were: PitB. I had crossed my fingers for the song vote. But it wasn't there. We did get Heartbreaker which was my choice. And then, for the eighth song, on came the green lights and the piano intro. And I just screamed. It must have been pretty loud because people near near me turned and looked. One guy asked me what that was about. I told him that I had been waiting 50 year to hear this one played live.

So if this is it, I'm so glad that I can say my Rolling Stones concert journey is complete. And if this is it, I want to add a special thanks to Bjornulf and all of you for making my journey even more exciting and joyful.

Another studio album after HD part 2
South America or Asia/Auz/NZ concerts

A lucrative deal with Netflix for the definitive history of the band

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What we know for almost certain: They won't tour in 2026. The intent was to do Europe/UK and they do outdoor show, they won't do this in November/December.

If they could start in September like in 2017 they could do some stadiums in Central and Southern Europe and then move to arenas in places like England, The Netherlands, Sweden & Norway.

Georgelicks wrote that Mick hates the idea of residencies. Maybe he can be persuaded otherwise?

If like BV reported that no major health issues then it’s likely money.

They don’t need money at their age but the most important currency to them in their later years is time.

If when they overlay a the cost of insurance, request for
Minimum payment from the touring companies (regardless of cancellations) and the cost of putting and moving a show these days, sad truth is they probably looked at it and thought - all in - it’s not worth it.

Hope they do a couple of runs in a single place scattered throughout the autumn and winter of 2026 but probably unlikely.

I was 15 in 2003 and remember my uncle telling me that I was lucky as it could be their last tour. I squeezed in a further 12 shows in the subsequent years. I should be so lucky.

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South America or Asia/Auz/NZ concerts

"Nope" - [iorr.org] .

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vibrolux
Limited information naturally leads to speculation. There is so much passion around this band. But a few things are certain: 1) They were well down the path of setting up a Europe/UK tour. 2) For some reason the pulled the plug even though there were in the process of putting together the details. 3) Whatever the underlying reason is, for now at least only the inner circle knows. 4) And of course most obviously, they're into their 80s now and even if the underlying reason is a health concern, eventually the stamina and energy to put on a Rolling Stones show just isn't there any more.

Basically all that was involved in planning the tour at this stage is the booking agent is calling stadiums, inquiring availability and reserving them for a specific date. Happens all the time. It's not like we're pinning hopes for future activity on sunk costs and effort for a tour that was never confirmed.

Endless copious doses of hopium certainly aren't going to push a tour forward.

Also 2012 was a test run for future small scale touring and the format they followed ever since so I don't think they will put forth the effort again for a handful of shows, especially since associated expenses are so much higher now.

I am hoping for a new album and more archive releases. Just start dumping video screen feeds from past tours at a higher rate while some of us are still alive to enjoy them.

Two week London O2 residency with Wyman and Taylor, final live album and Blu-Ray, documentary.