Guns N’ Roses played Wembley Stadium on 26 June 2025. If new UK dates are announced, VIP and hospitality packages are typically released separately from general sale tickets.
Last checked: December 2025
Seeing Guns N’ Roses live is one of those experiences that you will remember for the rest of your life. One of the most electrifying, and notorious, rock bands in history. They may have mellowed a little in their advancing years but the energy that they still bring to their live shows needs to be seen to be believed.
As they embark on another World Tour, the catchily named ‘World Tour 2026’ Tour, we want to spend this blog getting to know the band a bit, as well as a look at how you can be there to witness these rock legends doing their stuff next time they come to London, while taking advantage of some of the incredible VIP packages at Wembley Stadium. All the makings of an incredible night. At the moment, no London dates have been announced, but we’ll update you as soon as that changes.
A brief history of Guns N’ Roses
They got together. They exploded onto the scene. They fell out – for a really long time. And now they’re back together.
That pretty much covers it.
To look at it in a bit more detail, it all started in 1984. Izzy Stradlin was living with Tracii Guns in LA, and they were both in bands. The Hollywood Roses (Stradlin) and the LA Guns (err, Guns). The LA Guns were in need of a new singer, and Stradlin suggested Axl Rose, who almost immediately got into an argument with the manager and was fired (note: this may be a common theme). Out of all the mess that this created, Guns N’ Roses was born.
The following year the ‘classic’ Guns N’ Roses line-up was created, when Slash (another Hollywood Rose member), Duff McKagan and Steven Adler. By this point Guns had left following an argument with Axl Rose…
They signed with Geffen Records in 1986, and the year after they released their debut album – Appetite for Destruction. Everything was set up for an unstoppable march on the music charts all over the world…but nothing really happened. At least not for a year or so.
Eventually, the video for Welcome To The Jungle got played on MTV. At first, just in the early hours of the morning, but it soon caught the attention of rock fans everywhere. This was followed up with Sweet Child o’ Mine in the Summer of ’88, which took the country by storm, reaching number one in the singles charts. This helped propel Appetite to the top of the album charts too. They had made it.
They toured to support their album, and that tour lasted 16 months. On top of headlining their own tour, they also supported the Cult, Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper. They were honing their skills as live performers and learning from some rock legends as they did so.
Drugs, fights, run-ins with the law – they gained a reputation as the ‘most dangerous band in the world’, and that fuelled their energy on stage. It came at a cost, though. Alder was fired from the band, unable to perform due to his addictions, and was replaced by Matt Sorum.
The early nineties saw the release of Use Your Illusion 1 & 2, which were released simultaneously and took up the top two positions in the album charts. The epic November Rain video, nearly nine minutes long, was the most requested song on MTV when it was released – it was also at the time the longest song to ever reach the top ten in the US.
They then embarked on an epic tour – 192 dates across 28 months, in 27 different countries. It’s probably not a huge surprise that this volatile group started to break apart during the tour – in fact the last show in Buenos Aires was the last time Slash would play with the band until 2016. 23 years later.
A lot happened between those dates. The Spaghetti Incident? was released in 1993. Slash officially left the band in 1996. There were a lot of lawsuits. Chinese Democracy was (finally) released in 2008. And then, they all came back together again. Older, wiser, and a little less in your face, but still with all the music and energy that made so many fall in love with them.
Guns N’ Roses in the UK
If you would like to see Guns N’ Roses, you can register your interest with us now, and we will update you as soon as new dates are announced. As things stand, their only UK date is part of the Download Festival – if that changes, we will be able to offer you our range of hospitality packages for their UK dates.
