Another Kanye West concert has been cancelled, this time in Basel, Switzerland.
The proposed performance would have taken place at the home ground of the football club FC Basel, St. Jakob-Park. However, representatives from the venue have told Reuters that they decided to decline the request for the gig.
“FCB received an enquiry and considered it,” they said. “However, after thorough review, we have decided not to proceed with the project, as we cannot, in accordance with our values, provide a platform for the artist in question within this context.”
The cancelled Switzerland show is the first of numerous gigs that have been cancelled across Europe in recent weeks, which were part of a 2026 world tour in support of his new album ‘Bully’.
West had been booked to headline all three days of London’s Wireless Festival, which would have been his first live dates in the UK since 2015, but these were cancelled when the UK Government blocked him from entering the country.
The booking had sparked significant backlash, including from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who said it was “deeply concerning that Kanye West has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism”.
Several festival sponsors cut their ties with Wireless following Ye’s booking, including Pepsi, drinks giant Diageo, PayPal and Rockstar Energy, putting huge pressure on organisers to take action.
West had shared a fresh apology for his past remarks amid the controversy surrounding his Wireless appearances shortly before the event was axed. He addressed the criticism in a new update to his Wall Street Journal “to those I’ve hurt” letter, which he originally shared in January.
“I’ve been following the conversation around Wireless and want to address it directly,” West wrote. “My only goal is to come to London and present a show of change, bringing unity, peace, and love through music.
“I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with members of the Jewish community in the UK in person, to listen. I know words aren’t enough – I’ve had to show change through my actions. If you’re open, I’m here. With Love.”
Following the controversy, West postponed a show at the Marseille Velodrome in France indefinitely, saying it was his “sole decision” to do so.
Prior to this, the French authorities confirmed that they were exploring possible options to ban West from entering the country owing to his antisemitic past (via Far Out).
Yesterday (April 18), a planned show in Poland was also cancelled. West had been booked to pay the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów on 19 June, marking his first performance in Poland for 15 years,. However, the venue later pulled the plug “due to formal and legal reasons”.
It came after the country’s Culture Minister, Marta Cienkowska, condemned the rapper, arguing that his history of offensive remarks should bar him from performing in a nation “scarred by the history of the Holocaust”.
“We cannot pretend that this is just entertainment,” Cienkowska said. “We are talking about an artist who has publicly made anti-Semitic remarks, relativised crimes, and profited from selling T-shirts with a swastika. These are not ‘controversies.’ This is a deliberate crossing of a boundary and a normalisation of hate.”
She concluded by saying culture could not “be a space for those who use it to spread contempt”.
He has also confirmed dates in New Delhi, India (May 23), Istanbul, Turkey (May 30), Arnhem, the Netherlands (June 6, 8), Chorzów, Poland (June 19), Reggio Emilia, Italy (July 18), Madrid, Spain (July 30), and Loulé, Portugal (August 7).
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