{"id":149071,"date":"2025-09-20T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149071\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:12:06","slug":"morrissey-cancels-two-upcoming-shows-due-to-credible-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149071\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey Cancels Two Upcoming Shows Due To ‘Credible’ Death Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGrammy-nominated English singer-songwriter Morrissey<\/a>, who first rose to prominence as the frontman of rock band The Smiths, has canceled his upcoming September shows after receiving a \u201ccredible threat\u201d on his life.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Instagram, the artist announced the cancellation of tonight\u2019s show, scheduled at the Premier Theater at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, and tomorrow\u2019s event, originally planned to be held at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Mass. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDue to recent events and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band, the upcoming shows this weekend at Foxwoods and MGM Music Hall have been cancelled. All tickets will be refunded automatically at your original point of purchase,\u201d the official statement on social media read. \u201cWe appreciate your understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier today, Ottawa Police told CBS News<\/a> that a 26-year-old male resident named Noah Castellano posted the online threat before Morrissey\u2019s Sept. 12 performance at the CityFolk Festival<\/a>, and was later charged. Castellano was released on $5,000 bail, but the investigation is currently ongoing, authorities said.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its own statement on the matter, MGM Music Hall wrote, \u201cIn recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey\u2019s life. Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band, tomorrow\u2019s engagement at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway has been cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Canadian outlet Ottawa Citizen<\/a>, the 26-year-old made the threat on Bluesky Sept. 4, with court documents citing a matching post made under the account name \u201cguy who gets shot in the head one hundred thousand times a day.\u201d The post reads, \u201cSteven Patrick Morrissey when you perform at TD Place here in Ottawa next week on the evening of September 12th, 2025 at about 9pm, I will be present at the venue in the audience and I will attempt to shoot you many times and kill you with a very large gun that I own illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the post, the show went as scheduled at the venue, with the fest declining to comment about the threat or whether there was talk of a proposed cancellation. When contacted by the Citizen, Castellano did not want to comment on his charge, stating, \u201cI\u2019m not interested.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMorrissey\u2019s North American tour kicked off with a showing Sept. 10 in Montreal, followed by stops in Toronto and New York City. His next scheduled stop will be in Philadelphia, followed by concerts in cities like Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Beginning Oct. 31, Morrissey will take on stages in Latin America, with stops scheduled for Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy-nominated English singer-songwriter Morrissey, who first rose to prominence as the frontman of rock band The Smiths, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,44785,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-149071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-morrissey","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}