Morrissey has shared the full footage of his New Year’s Eve 2024 concert at the Hollywood Palladium.
The former Smiths frontman first announced the show in early December as part of a series of four gigs set for the end of the year.
Going from New York to Los Angeles, Morrissey rounded out the year with the Hollywood show. Alongside hits like ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’, he also previewed four tracks from his unreleased new album ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’: ‘I Am Veronica’, ‘Rebels Without Applaise’, ‘I Ex-Love You’ and ‘Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings’.
Morrissey then ended the set just before midnight until a countdown played and ‘Auld Lang Syne’ kicked in to mark the start of 2025.
Now, Morrissey has posted footage of the concert on his website yesterday (May 26) – watch the concert film below:
Morrissey is shortly due to go on tour throughout the UK. He announced the shows in February this year, where the dates will be his only Ireland, Scotland and England dates of the year.
Kicking off Dublin on May 31 for a gig at the the 3Arena, Morrissey will then play two nights at the O2 Academy in Glasgow on June 4 and 5 respectively. He’ll finally round off his tour with a homecoming show at Manchester’s Co-Op Live on June 7.
Chicago quintet Brigitte Calls Me Baby will serve as opening support at the Dublin and Manchester dates – get any remaining tickets here.
Morrissey’s long-awaited new album still does not have a release date. It was recorded between 2020 and 2021, but has remained shelved by Capitol Records due to controversies around the artist.
Issues with the record date back to 2022, when Morrissey revealed that he had “voluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records” – despite announcing that he would be releasing the LP with them just two months earlier. He also revealed that Miley Cyrus had asked to have her backing vocals removed from the ‘Bonfire’ track ‘I Am Veronica’ which they had recorded back in 2020.
He went on to accuse Capitol Records of “fascism” and having a “creeping culture of censorship” on his website and further said he was “quickly coming around to” the belief that the brand only signed ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ “in order to sabotage it”.
Morrissey then alleged that the CEO of Capitol Records was trying to derail his career, before then taking to his website to say he was being “gagged” over the release of ‘Bonfire Of The Teenagers’.
Elsewhere, Morrissey told a crowd at one of his shows in the US last November that he was being prevented from releasing new music due to a war on “free speech“.