Duff McKagan

Duff McKagan will perform on 11 October at Sono.

Following the release of his third solo album Lighthouse in October 2023, Duff McKagan announces an upcoming tour of the UK and Europe in October 2024. The series of shows will kick off in Dublin and will see the iconic musician perform in fifteen cities across eleven countries, bringing Lighthouse to life with live performances.

Duff McKagan is an American singer-songwriter whose forty-year musical journey has taken him from small punk clubs to sold-out world stadium tours. Along the way, he became a founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, collaborated with legends like Ozzy Osborne and Iggy Pop, and created a diverse catalogue of solo material. Among McKagan's millions of fans is none other than Bob Dylan.

McKagan's new album Lighthouse is the first complete selection of more than 60 songs McKagan recorded in his home studio in Seattle between 2019 and 2022. By turns personal and philosophical, the album captures the essence of McKagan's four decades in the beating heart of American music.

McKagan wrote his first song in his mother's bedroom in 1978. At the time, he was a 14-year-old “punk” on the verge of dropping out of high school, “borrowing” cars to get to gigs and practicing every instrument possible to fill any open position in the band. He did his musical apprenticeship with The Vains (1979), The Fastbacks (1980) and The Living (1982), then formed the original line-up of Guns N' Roses in 1985, and so began an astonishing creative career that included stints in Loaded (1998) and Velvet Revolver (2002–2008).