Morrissey Forced to Cut Dallas Concert Short After Fans Rush Onstage Mid-Performance

Mar. 15, 2025

Morrissey performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in May 2019.Photo:Andrew Lipovsky/Getty

Andrew Lipovsky/Getty

A recentMorrisseyconcert was abruptly cut short after fans’ attempts to embrace the singer as he performed quickly got out of hand.

The English singer, 65, was performing an encore set at the Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas on Saturday, Nov. 2 when a fan slowly approached him onstage and reached out for a hug, according tofan videoshared to social media and withTMZ.

As security tried to hold the woman back, another fan made their way onstage and reached out to shake the musician’s hand, which he did successfully before he was pulled away, too. Morrissey continued to sing “First of the Gang to Die” as the fans approached.

Audience members getting onstage and embracing Morrissey as he performs is a “very common” occurrence, George Allen, co-host of a Morrissey podcast, told theManchester Evening News. But in Dallas, the practice was seemingly taken too far.

Before long, multiple fans had joined the action, and at one point, fan video shows a man waving his hands up and down onstage. Morrissey is quickly ushered offstage, thus ending the show. A security guard seemingly injured his foot in the scuffle, as he is seen in the video hobbling off the stage.

Morrissey performing in London in 2014.Jim Dyson/WireImage

Jim Dyson/WireImage

The former Smiths frontman has not commented on the incident, but did share photos of the gigto Instagramwith the caption, “12 from Dallas, November 2.”

The rocker is currently on tour through the end of the month, and is next scheduled to perform on Monday, Nov. 4 in Little Rock, Ark.

source: people.com