Rolling Stones Booked for Circuit of the Americas on May 24

Updated Thursday, Feb. 6, 1:30pm:

This morning at 6am, the Rolling Stones, Circuit of the Americas, and promoter AEG Presents’ Concerts West confirmed what the Chronicle learned last week and reported on Monday: Jagger, Richards, Watts, and Wood will perform on the local racetrack’s grounds on Sunday, May 24 – the day before Memorial Day. The English rock & roll icons announced a continuation of their No Filter tour, which began in 2017. Fifteen shows between San Diego on May 8 and Atlanta on July 9 include two Texas dates: Austin, fifth concert in the lineup, and Dallas on May 29. Tickets for the local spectacle go onsale Friday, Feb. 14, 10am.

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Last week, the Chronicle learned the Rolling Stones have scheduled a concert at Circuit of the Americas for Sunday, May 24 – Memorial Day weekend. On Monday morning, that still-unpublicized news seemingly confirmed itself with a Downtown art tag. The mural at 110 E. Riverside – onetime site of "ultimate ladies club" La Bare (male dancers for women) and, briefly, Sixth Street live music venue Steamboat – then changed again on Tuesday. Whereas "It's just a kiss away," a lyric from "Gimme Shelter" repeated four times, adorned the thoroughfare to start the workweek, 24 hours later a snippet of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" complemented the graphic with "Get what you need."

On the UK quartet's 2017-19 No Filter tour, which docked in only one Texas locale last year (revisit "The Rolling Stones Storm Houston in Only Texas Date," July 29, 2019), the group's advance team planted a pair of Warholian lips in the cities hosting the 58-year-old British Invasion survivors. Neither the legendary band nor its PR team, pioneers in rock & roll publicity since day one, have announced a spring jaunt, but the venue – configuring the show around the racetrack as they do for F1 events rather than SRO'd into the amphitheatre – and personal accommodations for band members themselves are already on the local books, according to industry sources across multiple Central Texas cities.

The Stones – Sir Mick Jagger, 76; Keith Richards, 76; Charlie Watts, 78; and Ronnie Wood, 72 – last performed in Austin on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006, during the A Bigger Bang Tour. The show appeared on DVD the following year in a box set commemorating the promotional trek. What many believed a once-in-a-lifetime event, the Rolling Stones in Austin's Zilker Park (see review, "TCB Music News: You Got Me Rocking," Oct. 27, 2006), now hopefully prompts lightning to strike twice in the live music capital.