KISS Expecting To Play Their Final Show In 2023

While KISS kicked off their farewell ‘End of the Road’ tour in 2019 which was later delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, news has surfaced that the band are expecting to play their final farewell show later this year. KISS’s manager, Doc McGhee, recently stated in an interview with Podcast Rock City that the band are currently in the process of planning and announcing the details for KISS’s final show, which will conclude the bands’s epically long farewell tour and 50 year career.

“One thing about KISS, we’ve always been that band that went to places where most bands didn’t go. So we play everybody’s town… You name it, we’ve played there. So we always go where the people are anyways. The reason why we’re continuing doing this last is because obviously the pandemic has stopped us from finishing. And the fact that people just wanted to see us, but we had to end it at some time, which will be this year,” McGhee states.

However, when asked further about the possibility of KISS going on without its original members, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, McGhee explained that the door remains open for future KISS endeavors. “People are throwing ideas around to us, and then we’ll look at it. But, really, it has to be amazing. We don’t fall for gimmicks, as much as some people would think we’re a gimmick. But we don’t fall for ’em. We didn’t do NFTs, we didn’t do all that stuff, because we didn’t believe in it. We didn’t believe that people were gonna get anything out of it. And it wasn’t gonna be long-lasting.

I like to think years and years ahead; I don’t like to think days ahead. So with that, we’re gonna go and finish this up and see what happens in the realm of the metaverse and the world of that type of things that can come back and people can experience things in different ways for KISS.” “To me, KISS is more like Marvel. There’s all kinds of things that can happen with KISS, and probably will. So it’s a whole new frontier out there starting in ’24.”

Given how expansive KISS’s fanbase and rock lore are, I don’t think it’d be a surprise for KISS to return after their farewell tour in some unique facet, whether that’s through new musicians taking up the role of KISS’s current members or even through some sort of residency KISS in Las Vegas. Either way, despite KISS’s original members going into retirement, the KISS brand will continue to grow and live on as McGhee explains.