Concerts 2025, the most anticipated of October

October marks the transition from summer to autumn: the days are shortened, but the opportunities to go out and have fun are not lacking. Among the most interesting are undoubtedly the concerts, which also fill the cities of live music this month, even if the summer is officially in the archive and brings with it the mega summer gatherings outdoors. From big names to emerging artists, the October calendar is full of dates in the buildings, theaters and clubs to be marked on the agenda. Here is an overview of the most anticipated events (and the advances for 2026).

The idols of Italian pop

There is still room for some outdoor concerts, even in October. Among the latest appointments hosted by the Arena di Verona, before the end of the season, there is the Irama concert: on October 2 the voice of “wherever you are” will retrace the stages conquered in recent months on the stage of the Scaliger amphitheater, from the return in the race at the Sanremo Festival with “slowly” to the announcement of its first concert at the San Siro stadium in Milan, scheduled for June 10, 2026, of which the Veronese show will be a show. sort of anticipation. A year to frame this 2025, it was undoubtedly for Olly: the winner in office of the Sanremo Festival will kick off his first tour in the Palasport in October, which among other cities will also stop in Bologna (8 October), Rome (14 and 15 October) and Naples (17 October). In the lineup the hits that marked the rise of the Genoese singer -songwriter, from “dust” to “Balorda nostalgia”, up to the new single “This Sunday”. Tour on the starting tapes also for Elodie, who will inaugurate his “Elodie – Show 2025” on 29 October at the Palazzo del Tourismo in Jesolo. And if the 2025 was the year of Olly, 2026 will most likely be the year of Alfa, his fellow citizen: Andrea De Filippi, this is the real name of the Genoese songwriter, has already begun to warm the engines this summer with the hit “I like it”, officially proclaimed the catchphrase of the year, and now returns to the stages of the Italian Palasport, including that of the Assago forum of Milan, where they perform. A sort of consecration. The appointment to be marked on the calendar is that of 29 October. But October will also be the month that will mark the return “at home” of one of the Italian stars that is the best known abroad: Damiano David, the Maneskin singer, will stop on 7 October in Milan with his solo tour linked to the album “Funny Little Fears”, while on 11 and 12 October he will perform in his Rome.

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The return of Lady Gaga

Engaged with her “The Mayhem Ball Tour”, the tour that is seeing her presenting live all over the world the songs of her latest album “Mayhem”, Lady Gaga in October will return to perform in Italy seven years old from the last time. It will do so at the Assago forum in Milan, which on 18 and 19 October will host the two Italian dates of the tour, already sold out for some time. In the lineup, in addition to the songs of the album released in March, also Hit as “Poker Face”, “Bad Romance”, “Alejandro”, who have made Lady Germanotta an authentic icon of the world pop of the last twenty years.

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Yungblude revelation

Among the international stars expected in Italy in October there is also the Yungblud Revelation, which will stop on October 31st at the Choruslife Arena in Bergamo with the tour linked to his latest album “Idols”. Dominic Richard Harrison, this is the real name of the singer -songwriter of Doncaster, born in 1997, has 3.4 billion in total listening on Spotify worldwide, 1.2 billion views for his video clips on YouTube, 6.3 million fans on Instagram. Mick Jagger defined him in unsuspected times “the future of rock”. Dave Grohl said about him that it is “proof that rock and roll is not dead.” Important, perhaps even too heavy. Not for him, who with the new album Idols, just released, has conquered the definitive consecration: the disc allowed him to conquer the first place in the weekly ranking of the most sold in the United Kingdom for the third time, a goal that he had already reached in 2020 with “Weird!” And in 2022 with “Yungblud”.

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The bands: the Modà and the burials

There is also room for the bands. The Modà will kick off on 29 and 30 October from the Kioene Arena of Padua to the tour “The night of the romantics”, returning from the concert in San Siro last June. Kekko Silvestre and associates prepare to shoot the whole of Italy to make their repertoires listen to live, from “La Notte” to “are already alone”. From abroad, on the other hand, Ryan Tedder’s burdens, among the largest pop hitmakers of the last twenty years, author not only of the successes of his band – one above all, “apologizes” – but also of those of Madonna, Lady Gaga, U2, adel, Beyoncé, Leona Lewis, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, arrive at the peninsula. Many others. The US band will perform on 10 and 11 October in Bologna and Milan.

And for Halloween lovers …

For lovers of the most frightening night of the year, associated with the macabre, horror and supernatural, there is an unmissable appointment: Horrorland. Between spiritual techno, visionary trance, sounds that dig in you a mystical, carnal, overwhelming experience on 31 October, in the spaces of Ferrara Fiere and Congress, will host the 2025 edition of the event, which will make the city the capital of the nightmare for an unforgettable night.

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The advances relating to 2026

Meanwhile, the calendar relating to the great live events scheduled in Italy in 2026 continues to be enriched. There are those who have already carried out well in advance, revealing the plans for 2026: by Vasco Rossi (expected in June 2026 in the arenas of Ferrara, Olbia, Bari, Ancona and Udine) to Cesare Cremonini (always expected in June 2026 in Milan, Imola and Rome, where for the first time he will perform in his career. Maximum). Last announced a single show, for the next year: the one that on July 4, 2026 will see him perform in front of 250 thousand spectators in Tor Vergata, a south-east suburbs of the capital, with “The gathering of the last”. It will beat Vasco Rossi’s record as for tickets sold for a single event in Italy. Achille Lauro after reaching the sold out for the date of June 10, 2026 at the Olympic stadium, announced an appointment in San Siro in Milan scheduled for June 15. Ligabue, vice versa, after having announced a show on the football scale made official that in the summer of 2026, more precisely on June 12, he will also perform at the Olimpico in Rome. After the great success of last year’s concerts at the Maradona Stadium in Naples and after having inflamed the Hippodrome of Agnano this summer, always in Naples, Geolier will make his first tour in the stadiums in the summer of 2026. Of course, his city will also touch – three scheduled dates: on 26, 27 and 28 June – but he will see the rapper also perform in the stadiums of Milan (13 June) and Rome (June 19). Not only the pop of Irama, who on 11 June, as already reported, will perform for the first time in his career in San Siro: in the summer of 2026 the Scala del Calcio will also host the mega shows of The Weeknd, on 24, 25 and 26 July. In Milan, but in this case at the Snai La Maura Hippodrome, the System of A Down will also arrive on 6 July. Olly instead chose to play “at home”: on June 18 the Genoese singer -songwriter will perform at the Ferraris stadium in his city.

In collaboration with Bus for Fun