Moby performed in Georgia for the first time on July 30, 2026, as part of his 2026 global tour, taking the stage at the Rustavi International Motorpark near Tbilisi. Billboard

The show was organised by Flitz Collective, a local promoter, with Billboard Georgia serving as the main media partner. Backstage, minutes before going on, Moby sat down with Billboard Georgia for an interview that was later translated from Georgian for publication.

He had only been in the country for a couple of days. Tbilisi, he said, felt like a European city despite sitting roughly a thousand miles from Europe. The remark came as he took in a city that has built a reputation as a touring stop for international acts, though Moby himself had never played there before.

The conversation ranged beyond music. Moby, a longtime animal-rights advocate, argued that the key shift needed on the issue is simple consistency: people who like animals and do not want to hurt them should, logically, not eat them or pay others to kill them. The barrier, in his view, is not lack of information but the gap between belief and action. He said he hoped humanity would either learn to behave logically and build an ethical structure from that logic, or face extinction as a species.

On the music industry, Moby was blunt about what he called one of its biggest illusions for emerging artists: the people who are nice to you when you are young and successful will not necessarily be nice when you are old and unsuccessful. It is a familiar theme from an artist who has been open about the highs and lows of a career stretching back to the early 1990s.

Moby's official website lists the Rustavi date as his only scheduled July 2026 performance, with tour dates continuing into August. An Instagram post from the artist also references an August 1, 2026, Tbilisi show under the "moby live 26" banner, suggesting his time in Georgia was not limited to a single night.

For a touring artist with a catalogue spanning electronic, ambient and pop, a first visit to Georgia closes one gap on the map. For the local promoter and media partners who put the night together, it brought a name with decades of international touring behind it to a venue more commonly associated with motorsport than music.