The Rolling Stones have apparently nixed plans to come back to the UK for live shows in 2025

31 January 2025, 08:54

The Rolling Stones push back plans for UK shows later this year

The Rolling Stones kept busy last spring touring North America in support of their long awaited studio comeback Hackney Diamonds, with 20 massive shows in the US and Canada.

But it's been three long years since they played back home in the UK, when they performed two homecoming shows at London's Hyde Park and a set at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium.

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Earlier this month it was widely reported that The Rolling Stones would return once more to play four massive stadium shows at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in North London this summer.

According to the Daily Mail, the shows would have been part of a European tour of Hackney Diamonds that will also take in dates in Amsterdam Barcelona, Paris and Rome.

However, new reports today (January 31) suggest that while such plans existed, they have now been cancelled or postponed.

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Sources told The Sun that despite intense negotiations with promoters, it wasn't possible to make the dates work for 2025.

There are apparently still hopes that the band will be able to return to the UK and play the rest of Europe too in 2026, when Mick will be 82 or 83 years old.

The setlist for the Stones' last live show, which took place at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale, MO on July 21, was as follows:

1. Start Me Up
2. Get Off of My Cloud
3. Tumbling Dice
4. Angry
5. Let It Bleed
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Whole Wide World
8. Mess It Up
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want
10. You Got the Silver
11. Little T&A
12. Before They Make Me Run
13. Sympathy for the Devil
14. Honky Tonk Women
15. Midnight Rambler
16. Gimme Shelter
17. Paint It Black
18. Jumpin' Jack Flash
    Encore:
19. Sweet Sounds of Heaven
20. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction