Kiss announced last Wednesday, the 1st, that their final shows, this time for real, will take place on December 1st and 2nd at Madison Square Garden in New York, the band's hometown.
“These are the band’s last two shows. We’re finishing where we started. I believe there are seventeen shows before this. Look, some people kind of laughed and said, ‘Oh, this end of the tour has been going on for years.’ Yes. We lost two and a half years to Covid, we would have finished by now. So, yes, this is the end,” Paul Stanley SiriusXM ’s The Howard Stern Show (transcription via Rádio Rock ).
Gene Simmons stated: “Of course I will! I joke that men don't cry, but I'm sure I'll cry like a nine-year-old girl who's had her foot stepped on.”
End of the Road tour was initially scheduled to end in 2021, but due to the pandemic, it had to be postponed. Kiss, however, is expected to continue "in other ways" after the final shows .
This wasn't the first time the group announced a supposed farewell tour. In the 2000s, the Farewell tour was supposed to be their last , but the musicians changed their minds. Now, their manager , Dog McGhee, has confirmed that the End of the Road tour will indeed end this year .
In April, the band will return to Brazil for five shows . The current tour had already passed through the country in 2022 .
Watch the clip from The Howard Stern Show below:
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