Lady Gaga announces The MAYHEM Ball tour
Mother Monster is coming back to the UK, Europe and North America.
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Pop sensation and creative genius Lady Gaga has revealed her upcoming tour, The MAYHEM Ball, following on from the release of her newest album MAYHEM. Being first initially teased the night before her album launched during the Little Monster Press Conference with Spotify, leading to great speculation. Gaga released an Instagram post that has now confirmed and outlined the 33 dates she has planned, taking place later this year, starting in Las Vegas in July and ending in Paris in November.
These new dates mark the first shows across North America, Europe and the UK from Gaga since 2022 with her Chromatic Ball tour, where she graced London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Whereas this tour will be her first full arena tour in seven years, and London’s venue for 2025 will instead be the O2 Arena, where she will be spending three nights at as well as a night in Manchester at the Co-Op Live Arena, before wrapping up the remainder of the scheduled dates in Europe.
This is the year for Lady Gaga as she is currently thriving after a flawless double performance on Saturday Night Live and a brilliant acoustic set on Howard Stern. Gaga gets ready to play her first live shows in Singapore in over a decade, headline Coachella, play a free show for over a million fans at Copacabana Beach in Rio, and play her first Mexico shows in thirteen years.
According to Gaga, this will be her first arena tour since 2018: “There’s something electric about a stadium, and I love every moment of those shows. But with ‘The MAYHEM Ball’, I wanted to create a different kind of experience – something more intimate, closer, more connected – that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create.” As well as allowing Gaga the opportunity to manage and decide the minute details of the show in a way that a stadium fails to allow.
In her Instagram reveal, she describes how initially the plan was to not tour this year after her shows in Singapore, but “the incredible response to the new album inspired me to keep things going. It came together super quickly thanks to Arthur Fogel and the amazing team at Live Nation.”
It is all speculation and gossip as to what this tour will bring, but one thing is for certain: Lady Gaga will not disappoint. After releasing her seventh album, MAYHEMI it is clear the focus on this ball will feature songs from this eclectically refined era as she infuses songs with a 70’s/80’s production paired with heavy synth. This album marks an evolution for Lady Gaga, proving she is consistent and outdoes herself each time. Not forgetting to mention the feeling of nostalgia little monsters have listening to this piece of art, as the presence of electrifying dance-tracks and overall sonic landscape is reminiscent of past decades, i.e. ARTPOP, The Fame Monster. This is already looking like it will be the tour of 2025, one with a highly anticipated setlist.
