Legendary rockers have played live for the last time. Probably. The band finished their SQ24 tour on Friday night with a set at Vivary Park in Taunton, Somerset, as part of the annual Live in Somerset festival.
Back in June, frontman , "I don’t think we will go again. And as far as the rest of the band are concerned it’s the last tour too. I just can’t see us doing it one more time.
I didn’t want to put this current tour out, saying it’s the last one ever. I did it once and was then coerced into coming back, but that’s another whole other fucking story." The whole other fucking story relates to the band's tour in 1984, which climaxed with a supposed final ever show at the 50,000-capacity Milton Keynes Bowl in July of that year.
The band were the following year, setting the wheels in motion for another 39 years of full-tilt boogie and that final show in Taunton. The band's setlist at the final show leaned heavily on Quo's 70s classics, including eight songs played at Milton Keynes – opener and before the band brought the curtain down with a version of , from 1988's album. Video and full setlist below.
Francis Rossi has an extensive solo tour lined up for 2025 (details below), but will his band tread the boards again? It's unlikely, says Rossi. "They might offer a huge amount of money to do the Quo again but I don’t think so," he said. "I am hesitant to call it the last ever but I just can’t see it continuing to be honest.
It’s fucking hurting this time, phy.