Overview
- In an Oct. 4 interview with The Sunday Times, May said he decided 18 months ago to take a break from touring to focus on family and personal projects.
- Major outlets reported the remarks as an announcement that Queen would stop touring, prompting May to call those headlines a "misinterpretation" in an Oct. 8 Instagram post.
- May wrote that he has never said Queen will "never" tour again and that he and drummer Roger Taylor are "constantly working together on Queen projects behind the scenes."
- He said the band has seriously considered immersive, avatar‑style residencies like ABBA Voyage or Sphere shows but has deep reservations about the large-scale use of artificial intelligence and the energy demands of data centers.
- There are no new traditional tour dates announced and the band remains open to future live ventures, with the next moves likely to focus on archival work, new music or carefully designed residency formats.