Johnny Depp Rocks Glasgow With Hollywood Vampires as UK Tour Rolls On

Rock supergroups don’t come much stranger, or more star-studded, than Hollywood Vampires. Built around a shared love of classic rock and a tribute to the “dead, drunk friends” of rock’s golden era, the band has spent the past decade turning celebrity side project energy into genuinely packed arena tours.

That momentum carried straight into Scotland this week, as the band brought its first UK run in nearly three years to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro. Formed back in 2015 around Alice Cooper, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, and actor-musician Johnny Depp, Hollywood Vampires has built a reputation for pairing celebrity spectacle with genuine musicianship, and Monday night’s stop only added to that.

The Glasgow show landed as one of the standout dates on the tour giving the performance a full five-star rating following their coverage of the concert. It’s a strong showing for a band whose live reputation has only grown since its earliest tours, and it comes as the group continues proving there’s still a substantial audience hungry to see this particular lineup on stage.

Monday’s Glasgow gig came as part of an eight-date UK run that kicked off with a show at London’s The O2 on August 12, followed by stops in Cardiff, Scarborough, and Manchester, before wrapping with dates in Birmingham, Colchester, and Halifax. It marks the band’s first UK live shows in almost three years, a gap that only seemed to sharpen anticipation among fans heading into the run.

Joining Cooper, Perry, and Depp on stage is longtime touring member Tommy Henriksen, rounding out the band’s core lineup for the tour. Ahead of the run, the group addressed the long absence directly, expressing excitement about returning to UK and European stages after so much time away and promising energetic, unforgettable nights for fans who turned out.

That excitement clearly extended to the Glasgow crowd. The Jesus and Mary Chain, the influential alternative rock outfit from East Kilbride, opened the arena shows across the tour, including Glasgow, giving the night a distinctly Scottish flavor before Hollywood Vampires took the stage.

Much of the enduring interest in Hollywood Vampires’ live shows comes down to Depp’s presence, and Glasgow was no exception. Ticket prices for the Hydro show ranged from roughly £50.90 up to £560.40 for VIP packages, reflecting continued strong demand for a band whose appeal stretches well beyond typical classic rock audiences.

For a project built explicitly around honoring rock’s fallen icons, from John Lennon to Keith Moon, the band has managed to turn nostalgia into something that still feels vital onstage more than a decade after its formation. That combination of tribute and spectacle has become something of a signature for Hollywood Vampires, distinguishing their shows from a typical legacy rock tour.

What’s Next for the Tour

With Glasgow now behind them, Hollywood Vampires continue on to Manchester’s AO Arena before heading to Birmingham, Colchester, and finally Halifax to close out the UK leg of the run. From there, the tour is set to continue into mainland Europe, with additional dates already confirmed across Germany and France later this month.

Given the strength of the reception in Glasgow, expectations remain high for the remaining UK stops. For a band this unconventional, still built around three larger-than-life personalities more than ten years after their formation, that kind of consistency on the road says something about how much staying power this project has managed to hold onto.

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