The penultimate show of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour got underway today (November 24), with Bob Dylan set for a final show in Dublin, Ireland, tomorrow.
The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour will return next year but Dylan’s show in Killarney, Ireland, at the Gleneagle Arena, marks the penultimate show of 2025. Dylan and the band performed a seventeen-song setlist, cutting the cover of The Lakes of Pontchartrain which featured in the show last night (November 23). Dylan had previously added a Van Morrison song to his setlist for an earlier show on the tour, but had made very few changes to the setlist before then. Dylan’s usual seventeen songs, which feature the likes of Desolation Row, It Ain’t Me, Babe, and When I Paint My Masterpiece, were featured along with the bulk of Rough and Rowdy Ways material. A full setlist can be found below.
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- I Contain Multitudes
- False Prophet
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Black Rider
- My Own Version of You
- To Be Alone With You
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Desolation Row
- Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
- Watching the River Flow
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
- Mother of Muses
- Goodbye Jimmy Reed
- Every Grain of Sand
Dylan’s show received a rave review from Cult Following earlier this month, with the veteran performer taking to Leeds’ First Direct Arena for a five-star show. The review reads: “At the best of times, like with To Be Alone with You or Desolation Row, the results are revelatory. You’ll find something in yourself you never knew was there with a Dylan show, so long as you give yourself up to missing this lyric or that note.
“Things have changed for Dylan as a performer. These are not moments to be documented by a camera or talked over, but if you truly give yourself up to the show, then connecting with it is no harm at all. No screens, dim lighting, these are self-made blockades for a crowd needing visual stimulation.
“What Dylan provides here is an all-time great performance, a truly exhilarating time that digs deep into what makes his songs so long-lasting. He just about finds out how it comes to be, but in true Dylan fashion, you’d have to be there, in the moment, to understand why they still click with a new generation.”
The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour will conclude later this month in Dublin, Ireland, at the 3Arena. Dylan has confirmed more dates on the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour will be announced, with “where and when” to be confirmed in the near future.
