Morrissey cancels gig after “credible threat on life”, man charged for posting death threat on Bluesky

Morrissey has cancelled two gigs after a “credible threat” on his life.

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Last Friday (September 12), the former The Smiths frontman headlined CityFolk music festival in Ottawa, Canada. Since his performance, reports have emerged of an alleged death threat against him.

Court documents allege that a threat was posted to Bluesky on September 4, from an account named “guy who gets shot in the head one hundred thousand times a day,” per Ottawa Citizen.

It reads: “Steven 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.”

A 26-year-old man named Noah Castellano was arrested for the incident and later released on $5,000 CAD (£2,691) bail. He has declined to elaborate on the charge, telling Ottawa Citizen: “I’m not interested.”

Now, the musician has cancelled two upcoming shows. The first was scheduled for tonight (September 19) at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT.

Another show slated for tomorrow night (September 20) at Boston’s MGM Music Hall has also been cancelled, with the venue saying: “In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey’s life. Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band, tomorrow’s engagement at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway has been cancelled.”

In other Morrissey news, the musician recently took to his website to share that he had “no choice but to offer for sale all of his business interests” in The Smiths to any potential investors or parties.

He explained in a statement: “I am burnt out by any and all connections to [Johnny] Marr, [Andy] Rourke, [Mike] Joyce. I have had enough of malicious associations. With my entire life I have paid my rightful dues to these songs and these images. I would now like to live disassociated from those who wish me nothing but ill-will and destruction, and this is the only resolution.”

A subsequent update shared that the email address has been “switched off” due to a “colossal response”.

Elsewhere, he recently revealed that he had declined an invitation to perform at Reform UK’s party conference.

The brief statement on Morrissey’s website concluded by saying he was “apolitical” and had never “joined a political party – or voted – in his entire life”, though he was “thankful for the invitation”.