{"id":529108,"date":"2026-04-13T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:24:11","slug":"the-strokes-snub-glasgow-on-world-tour-as-fans-blame-2022-trnsmt-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529108\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strokes snub Glasgow on world tour as fans blame 2022 TRNSMT crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US band will not be playing Scotland on their upcoming tour, with fans having to travel down to Newcastle, Manchester or further afield.\"Julian<\/p>\n

The Strokes took to the stage and the lead singer declared he missed the Barrowland Ballroom to the TRNSMT crowd.(Image: Roberto Ricciuti\/Redferns)<\/p>\n

Fans of US Indie rockers The Strokes have blamed a Glasgow music festival<\/a> crowd for the band missing out Scotland in their latest world tour.<\/p>\n

The group have just unveiled dates for their \u2018Reality Awaits\u2019 world tour 2026, taking in Chicago, Tokyo, London Berlin and Barcelona, among other stops.<\/p>\n

Scottish fans<\/a> were quick to spot that there was no date up here, however, and some fans think the snub might be down to the band\u2019s experience at TRNSMT festival.<\/p>\n

The Strokes headlined day two of the festival in 2022, when it was held on Glasgow Green, and played to a crowd of roughly 50,000 people, with their hits-heavy set including classics like \u2018Last Nite\u2019, \u2018Reptilia\u2019 and \u2018The Adults Are Talking\u2019.<\/p>\n

The performance was generally regarded as flat however, with many blaming a lacklustre crowd for failing to get the band going.<\/p>\n

And now that the group have missed Scotland off their world tour, fans are again unhappy.<\/p>\n

One fan simply posted \u201cThe Strokes not playing Glasgow. **** sake.\u201d, while another said \u201dNo Glasgow, worst tour ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

And one fan suggested there was one man to blame, posting: \u201cNot doing a Glasgow gig because the TRNSMT crowd in 2022 was utter s****. Another thing to blame Geoff Ellis for.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s 2022 set was not without its problems,<\/a> and as well as some technical difficulties, front man Julian Casablancas opened up their performance by telling the crowd he missed the Barrowland Ballroom.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI haven\u2019t been to Glasgow in a long time. I don\u2019t recognise the place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Barrowlands where we used to play, I miss that place. I miss being pulled to shreds by the Glasgow crowd. It\u2019s a fun place.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy memories of Glasgow… always the most chaotic, violent shows of my life. This is a nice change of pace though. Next time, the Barrowlands.”<\/p>\n

And some fans were also less than impressed with the crowd, with one posting on social media after the gig: “Dunno why I was expecting anything different but that TRNSMT crowd for The Strokes was proper sh***.”<\/p>\n

A second agreed: “I think it’s always a problem with outdoor gigs with multiple acts. TRNSMT feels quite young as well. Perhaps it was just a minority that liked The Strokes. Maybe a Barrowlands’ worth.”<\/p>\n

“It was almost like The Strokes would rather have been anywhere else but the main stage at TRNSMT”, a third added.<\/p>\n

The band will be playing Newcastle and Manchester in October as part of the tour and tickets go on sale Friday at 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US band will not be playing Scotland on their upcoming tour, with fans having to travel down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,679,128,183302,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-529108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-glasgow","tag-music","tag-trnsmt","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529108","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=529108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}