There’s a specific moment in a long career when a man decides that belonging to himself matters more than belonging to a machine, and you can usually hear it in the music. Bryan Adams spent forty years on Universal Music — enough time to build one of the more durable catalogs in rock, to write “Summer of ’69” and “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” and a run of anthems that logged chart success across more than 40 countries — and then, in 2025, he walked. He launched Bad Records, his own independent label, recorded Roll With the Punches, and sent it into the world with a line that will resonate with anyone who has ever spent too many years working for somebody else: “Finally, I was free.” He plays Moody Center ATX in Austin on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at 7:30 p.m., bringing the Roll With the Punches Tour and a bill that earns the ticket on its own terms: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are along as special guests for every U.S. date.
About Bryan Adams
Born in Kingston, Ontario, Adams has been recording since the early 1980s and touring with the kind of relentlessness that turns a catalog into something almost geological — layers accumulated over decades, one arena run at a time. He is Grammy-winning. He co-wrote Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical, a project that makes more sense the longer you spend with his songwriting. He is also a serious photographer whose work has been published and exhibited internationally, and if you find that detail surprising, you may not have been watching closely enough what the man does with a stage.
Roll With the Punches — his most recent studio album, released August 29, 2025, on Bad Records — was produced alongside Mutt Lange, a longtime collaborator whom Adams described as making the whole process “first and foremost” about having a laugh. The record carries ten original tracks, including “Never Ever Let You Go,” “Make Up Your Mind,” “Life Is Beautiful,” “Will We Ever Be Friends Again,” and the title track. It is the first album Adams has made entirely outside a major-label structure, and the album’s creative latitude is audible in the material.
The 2026 Roll With the Punches Tour is the international expansion of a campaign that already logged 80-plus performances in 2025. Before it reaches Austin, the run will have touched five continents — opening in Tokyo in January, appearing at Rock Werchter in Belgium in July, with 38 European dates running through December. The 16-city second U.S. leg opened July 24, and Austin is the fourth stop.
The Special Guests
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are on every American date of this run, and that is not a minor footnote. Benatar carries her own catalog of enduring arena rock, and Giraldo has been her collaborator and husband since before either of them had reason to stop. This is not a conventional support-act arrangement; both names on this bill have been filling rooms for decades. The combination gives the Austin date the shape of a genuine summit rather than a routine tour stop.
At Moody Center ATX
Moody Center sits at 2001 Robert Dedman Drive on the University of Texas campus — a 15,000-capacity venue that serves as Austin’s primary destination for arena-scale touring acts. There are no age restrictions for this show. VIP packages are available and include a Q&A session with Adams, behind-the-scenes venue access, and autographed vinyl.
Tickets
Tickets for Bryan Adams at Moody Center ATX on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 are on sale now through Ticketmaster. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. CT.