Guns N’ Roses launched their 2025 international tour on Thursday (May 1st) at Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in Incheon, South Korea.
The gig marked the band’s first concert in a year and a half, and the first GN’R show for new drummer Isaac Carpenter, who took over after the band parted ways with longtime stickman Frank Ferrer in March.
For Carpenter’s debut behind the kit, the band opened their kickoff concert in South Korea with “Welcome to the Jungle” — remarkably, the first time GN’R have opened with the song since 2012.
The 22-song set hit on every era of the band, from obligatory Appetite for Destruction classics (“Mr. Brownstone, “It’s So Easy,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” etc.), to the Use You Illusion albums (“Estranged,” “November Rain”) and a few Chinese Democracy cuts (“Better,” “Sorry.”)
The band did not appear to perform an encore, instead closing with a strong trio of classic-era staples: “Patience,” “Nightrain,” and lastly, “Paradise City.”
Axl Rose and company also played one of their recent singles, “Perhaps,” as well as covers of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan), “Live and Let Die” (Wings), “Slither” (Velvet Revolver), and “Wichita Lineman” (Jimmy Webb).
Guns N’ Roses’ international tour makes its way across Asia in May (including a May 17th gig in Mumbai) before crossing Europe later this summer, with dates running through July. Get tickets at this location.
Check out audience footage and the full setlist from the South Korea show below.
