Bryan Adams left Universal Music after forty years and did what very few artists at his stage of career would risk: launched an independent label, recorded ten songs of entirely new material, and put them in front of the world before taking the whole enterprise on a tour that has now logged over 80 performances. The Kingston date — Slush Puppie Place on August 25 — is night two of a 13-city Canadian run, and it arrives with more momentum behind it than most legacy tours manufacture. When Adams titled the album Roll With the Punches, he was, by his own admission, writing himself a note: “That was essentially a message to myself…keep going, keep progressing, and things will be all right.” It is the kind of message that tends to produce a better show.
About the Show
Roll With the Punches came out August 29, 2025, on Bad Records, his own label built quietly over a decade before Adams finally went independent from Universal. The record is his first collection of entirely new material since 2022’s So Happy It Hurts, and it earned a 2026 JUNO Award nomination for Rock Album of the Year. Adams was direct about the creative intent: “I wanted to try new things and move forward. You don’t want to stay in the same place or get stuck in that place.” The setlist draws from the new album alongside established material; sources cite “Summer of ’69,” “Heaven,” and “Run to You” among the hits Adams works into Canadian dates. His résumé covers four decades and several lanes: Grammy Awards, multiple JUNO Awards, Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe nominations, and a co-writing credit on Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical. The Canadian leg runs 13 cities from Quebec to British Columbia, closing September 13.
Opening the show is Lights (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner in Timmins, Ontario), a three-time JUNO Pop Album of the Year winner — Siberia, Little Machines, and Skin & Earth — who has moved from her indie-pop origins toward more electronic-leaning territory on recent releases. The pairing of two Canadian artists with career-spanning JUNO recognition, at a venue whose address honors another generation of Canadian rock entirely, is not an accident. It plays.
Venue & Logistics
Slush Puppie Place sits at 1 The Tragically Hip Way in Kingston, Ontario, a stop that puts this show within reach of north country audiences on both sides of the border. The venue address alone says something about how Kingston thinks about its musical history. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. VIP packages include premium seating, a pre-show Q&A with Adams, a behind-the-scenes production tour, and an autographed vinyl pressing from the new album.
Tickets
General tickets went on sale March 6 through Ticketmaster Canada. Buy tickets