The Live World: Harry, Stevie, Radiohead announce tour dates, Please & Thank You release The VIP Economy report

Each week, we track major tour announcements and live world news across ROSTR & NIF. The Live World is your weekly Thursday wrap-up of the live music biz stories you should know about. Let's take a look at this week's…

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Independent VIP agency Please & Thank You have released The VIP Economy report, built on nearly 1 million VIP ticket transactions across 302 artists in 34 countries. The report explains that once a fan buys three VIP tickets for a single artist or event, their chances of returning increase from 20% to 38%.

Harry Styles announced the final leg of his "Together, Together" tour, which will make stops across stadiums in North America & Europe next year. Each stop will feature different support including Tinashe, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, Caroline Polachek, LCD Soundsystem & more.

Stevie Wonder is celebrating 50 years of his album Songs in the Key of Life with an 18-date US/EU tour this fall.

Radiohead are officially coming to Australia & Japan next spring for a 21-date tour after teasing via mysterious postcards.

Indie band Spanish Love Songs are partnering with NIVA for the first-ever “Live Independent Tour” certification. The rock outfit's 19-date US tour will visit independent venues exclusively, with the goal of highlighting indie/local spaces and encouraging other artists to book majority independent venues on their tours.

Carín León, the first Latin artist to headline Sphere, is returning to the Vegas venue in September 2027.

🎟️ Festival Headlines:

• All Things Go have added Remi Wolf, underscores, Sierra Ferrel & Ethel Cain to their DC and NY lineups; the majority women and non-binary festival will be headlined by Zara Larsson later this month, her first-ever headlining festival slot

• Florida's Tortuga will be the first music festival to deploy sustainable, hybrid battery power that encompasses all front and back of house operations, saving nearly 4,000 hours of generator runtime

❌ Cancellations:

• Anyma's Istanbul performance was cancelled after he claims visuals from his show were taken out of context, augmented with AI, and set to different music to "manufacture a false sinister narrative that simply does not exist and does not reflect the show's essence or intention;" The Turkish Ministry of Culture revoked the previously approved permits on account the show at large was satanic in nature; local authorities have since denied an appeal submitted by Anyma's promoter to reinstate permits for the cancelled show

• AC/DC's Toronto stadium show was cancelled after the venue suffered major damage following a storm the week before

• Ray LaMontagne collapsed on stage mid-show last weekend due to dehydration; he is "doing well" now and is "grateful for everyone's understanding"

• Rosanne Cash postponed her upcoming 3 shows due to an "unforeseen medical emergency"

🔥 Check out this week's hottest tours in the gallery below: