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Guns N’ Roses, Tool and Rival Sons have joined the mammoth bill for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s farewell show.
Tickets for heavy metal celebration Back to the Beginning, which will be hosted and compered by American actor Jason Momoa, sold out in less than 10 minutes of going on general sale on Friday (14 February).
More than 150,000 fans reportedly joined the online queue at 10am, with the cheapest tickets available at £197.50 (€237.40), while general admission standing started at £262.50 (€315.50).
The all-day charity event will take place at Villa Park, Birmingham, on Saturday 5 July. Black Sabbath’s original lineup – Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – will top the star-laden bill, marking Osbourne’s final performance and the first time the quartet have played together in 20 years. Osbourne will play his own short set before joining with Black Sabbath for his final live bow.
The concert will also feature sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice In Chains, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Mastodon.
Post Malone has announced the European leg of his biggest international headline tour to date
In addition, it will include a supergroup of musicians, as Andrew Watt, Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Dave Ellefson, Vernon Reid (Living Colour) and Whitfield Crane (Ugly Kid Joe) will join Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), David Draiman (Disturbed), Frank Bello (Anthrax), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit), Jake E Lee, Jonathan Davis (Korn), KK Downing, Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Rudy Sarzo, Sammy Hagar, Scott Ian (Anthrax), Sleep Token ii (Sleep Token), Papa V Perpetua (Ghost), Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) and Wolfgang Van Halen.
Morello, who is also serving as music director for the concert, previously declared: “This will be the greatest heavy metal show ever.”
In other new tour news, Post Malone has announced the European leg of his biggest international headline tour to date. Post Malone Presents: The BIG ASS World Tour will arrive at 11 venues across the continent this August and September.
Beginning 12 August in Prague, Czech Republic at Airport Letnany, the Live Nation-produced trek – which includes support from special guest Jelly Roll on select dates – will stop at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, UK and GelreDome in Arnhem, the Netherlands, among others, before concluding at Estadio do Restelo in Lisbon, Portugal, on 14 September.
Malone’s full list of European tour and festival dates is as follows:
8 August: Untold Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
10 August: Sziget, Budapest, Hungary
12 August: Airport Letnany, Prague, Czech Republic
13 August: Frequency Festival, St. Pӧlten, Austria
15 August: Bittersweet Festival, Poznań, Poland
16 August: Lovestream Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
18 August: Parkbühne Wuhlheide, Berlin, Germany
21 August: Darius and Girenas Stadium, Kaunas, Lithuania
23 August: Horsens & Friends at Nordstern Arena, Horsens, Denmark
27 August: IDays Milano, Milan, Italy
29 August: Zürich Openair, Zürich, Switzerland |
30 August: Superbloom, Munich, Germany
3 September: Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, France
5 September: Heinz von Heiden Arena, Hanover, Germany
7 September: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London UK
9 September: GelreDome, Arnhem, Netherlands
12 September: Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Spain
14 September: Estadio do Restelo, Lisbon, Portugal
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Guns N’ Roses lead a fresh wave of 2025 announcements with a huge stadium tour of Europe and the Middle East.
Produced by Live Nation, the 24-date tour will see the rock icons play their first-ever shows in Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Lithuania and Luxembourg, with support from Public Enemy, Rival Sons and Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at select dates.
The US rock legends will also return to familiar stages in Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Hungary and Austria.
The outing also includes festival appearances at Firenze Rocks (IT), Rock For People (CZ), Wacken Open Air (DE) and Luxembourg Open Air (LU).
System Of A Down has also announced three massive stadium events featuring Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold and Korn.
Produced by Live Nation, the performances will take place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, on 28 August with Korn; Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, on 31 August with Avenged Sevenfold; and conclude at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, ON, on 3 September with Deftones. Special guests Polyphia and Wisp will open for all three shows.
Nelly is also set to hit the road in 2025, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his debut studio album
Elsewhere, Irish family band The Corrs have unveiled more tour dates for the UK and Europe in 2025, following a string of concerts in November.
The Talk on Corners 2025 outing will include shows in Ireland at Virgin Media Park, Cork (6 June) and St Anne’s Park, Dublin (8 June) – both with special guest Imelda May and additional support from Natalie Imbruglia.
In the UK, they will play Scarborough Open Air Theatre (11 June), Live at Piece Hall in Halifax (12) and at Plymouth Summer Sessions (14), with support from Natalie Imbruglia.
The summer will see three dates in Germany at Zitadelle in Berlin (24 June), Stadtpark in Hamburg (25) and Tollwood in Munich (26), followed by Spanish dates at ALMA Festival in Barcelona (29) and Madrid (30).
The band previously announced a performance at Isle of Wight Festival on 20 June, headlined by Sting.
Nelly is also set to hit the road in 2025 with his Where The Party At Tour, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his debut studio album, Country Grammar.
Jack White has also announced a UK and European leg for his intimate ‘No Name’ tour
The 54-date tour across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States, will be supported by Nelly’s collaborators and friends such as Ja Rule, Eve, St. Lunatics, Fabolous, Jermaine Dupri, and Chingy.
The Live Nation-produced run, which kicks off in New Zealand on March 21 2025, will mark the rapper’s most extensive tour to date and will include stops at major venues like Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome, Paris’ Accor Dome, London’s O2 Arena and Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome.
Jack White has also announced a UK and European leg for his intimate ‘No Name’ tour, which will also visit North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
The newly-announced European leg will kick off with three shows in Paris in February 2025, before heading to Utrecht, London and Birmingham. The former White Stripes frontman will then wrap up the tour in Glasgow on 3 March.
The ‘No Name’ tour is already underway, with White currently on the Australian leg, which will be followed by a short North American and Japan run, and then a lengthier US stint.
Italian singer and songwriter Damiano David has announced a 2025 global tour with dates across Europe, Australia, North America, South America and Asia next year.
Produced by Live Nation, the outing will encompass 31 dates in theatres across the five continents.
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The UK music business has been abuzz with talk of an Oasis reunion over the past few days, with an announcement teased for 8am tomorrow.
Rumours of a reconciliation between Liam and Noel Gallagher have been frequent since the Britpop icons split following a backstage bust-up at France’s Rock en Seine in August 2009.
But this time there does appear to be substance to the speculation, first reported by The Times over the weekend, which cited industry insiders claiming the brothers had agreed to a run of open-air concerts in London and Manchester next summer.
Oasis would join a long line of music greats to put years of acrimony aside and reunite. Fellow Manchester legends The Stone Roses got back together in late 2011, having disbanded in 1996 – an almost identical period of estrangement to the Gallagher brothers.
The Roses’ three nights at Manchester’s Heaton Park in the summer of 2012 were reportedly the fastest-selling UK rock gigs of all time, with 220,000 tickets being sold in just 68 minutes. The band continued to perform until 2017, when they quietly went their separate ways once more.
The highest-grossing reunion tour to date is Guns N’ Roses‘ mammoth 2016-19 Not in This Lifetime… Tour, which featured the “classic” lineup of Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan for the first time since 1993. Billboard data shows the Live Nation-promoted tour grossed US$584.2 million from 5,371,891 ticket sales, making it the third highest-grossing tour in history up to that point.
Where UK comebacks are concerned, Take That‘s 2005 return is still the gold standard
The Police‘s 2007/08 Reunion Tour, which followed their 1986 split, was a similarly monster success, taking the crown for the top-grossing tour of 2007 after generating $362m in total, according to Billboard Boxscore, while The Eagles‘ 1994-96 Hell Freezes Over Tour – their first jaunt in 14 years – garnered £152.9m.
Elsewhere, Fleetwood Mac‘s 2014-15 On with the Show, which saw Christine McVie rejoin the group for the first time since 1998, pulled in $199.2 according to Pollstar figures.
Other famous reunions include Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (1999-2000), Black Sabbath (2012-14), Van Halen (2007) with original singer David Lee Roth, Iron Maiden, whose singer Bruce Dickinson rejoined in 1999 following a six-year absence, and Genesis (2021/22). In addition, Led Zeppelin played a one-off gig at The O2 in London in 2007, while Pink Floyd briefly regrouped for a performance at Live 8 in 2005.
Away from the rock realm, Jonas Brothers continue to do stellar business since returning from a six-year hiatus in 2019, while the Spice Girls have held two triumphant reunions – 2007/08’s The Return of the Spice Girls tour, which netted $70.1m from 45 arena concerts, and Spice World – 2019 UK Tour, which grossed $78.2m from just 13 stadium shows.
But in terms of lasting success, Take That‘s 2005 return remains the gold standard in their homeland. Their 2011 Progress Live tour with Robbie Williams, which saw all five original members perform together for the first time in 16 years, grossed $185.2m, with more than 1.8m tickets sold across 29 sold out stadium shows. Thirteen years on, it is still the biggest tour in UK history.
CAA’s Paul Franklin spoke to IQ about the roaring trade of reunion tours earlier this year.
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Live Nation Spain is taking legal action against Vigo council over the voiding of a near €2 million municipal sponsorship deal for Guns N’ Roses’ recent concert in the city.
The promoter stepped up to guarantee the 12 June date at Estadio Abanca Balaidos “out of respect to the fans” after it was plunged into doubt due to an “administrative error”, when local production company Sweet Nocturna allegedly failed to present the relevant documentation.
Sweet Nocturna argued the requested deed was “subject to confidentiality and data protection to which local companies have no possibility of access or management”.
According to El Periodico de Espana, LN Spain president Pino Sagliocco says the GNR show “would never have been possible” without the council’s €1.9m sponsorship pledge, and vows to pursue the authority “with all the laws”. “We have no choice but to claim our rights,” he adds.
The organisers say they are taking legal action to ensure “these bad, arbitrary practices do not happen again for the good of the sector”
The gig, which was attended by around 28,000 people, was described by Sagliocco – who has previously brought acts such as the Rolling Stones, Madonna and Muse to Vigo – as “one of the best concerts in the history of Galicia”. Sagliocco says he pressed ahead with the event given the “emotional and economic consequences”, claiming that cancelling would have undermined Vigo’s “prestige”.
Nonetheless, the organisers allege the show “was in danger at all times due to the malpractice of the Vigo City Council,” adding they are taking legal action to ensure “these bad, arbitrary practices do not happen again for the good of the sector”.
However, a joint press conference by Sagliocco and Sweet Nocturna planned for last Friday (16 June) was cancelled, leading Vigoe to speculate that a settlement may have been reached with the authorities.
Guns N’ Roses, who are represented by ITB outside North America, also performed in Spain at Madrid’s Civitas Metropolitan Stadium on Friday 9 June as part of the European leg of their We’re F’N’ Back! Tour. The US band also has upcoming festival headline dates at Tons of Rock in Norway (21 June), this weekend’s Glastonbury festival (24 June) and BST Hyde Park in London (30 June).
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Next week’s Guns N’ Roses’ show in Vigo, Spain is set to go ahead after being thrown into doubt due to an “administrative error”.
More than 25,000 tickets have been sold for the concert at Estadio Abanca Balaidos on Monday 12 June. But reports surfaced last week that a €1.9 million municipal sponsorship deal for the gig had been declared void after local production company Sweet Nocturna allegedly failed to present the relevant documentation.
According to Vigoe, the firm told Vigo City Council that the requested deed “is not a document that exists as such in most cases”, due to nature of artist contracts.
Around 22,000 tickets were sold for the show on its first day of sale
“On these agreements, there is usually no contract as such, nor some deeds,” it said, arguing that the documentation between the artist and agency/promoter was “of a private commercial nature” and was therefore “subject to confidentiality and data protection to which local companies have no possibility of access or management”.
Nevertheless, Faro De Vigo reports that national promoter Live Nation Spain has guaranteed the GNR event, agreeing to assume the expenses resulting from the sponsorship shortfall “out of respect for the fans”. Around 22,000 tickets were sold for the show on its first day of sale.
The US band, who are represented by ITB outside North America, will also perform in Spain at Madrid’s Civitas Metropolitan Stadium on Friday (9 June) as part of the European leg of their We’re F’N’ Back! Tour. The group also has a slate of festival headline dates including at Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium (15 June), Denmark’s Copenhell (17 June), Tons of Rock in Norway (21 June) and the UK’s Glastonbury festival (24 June) and BST Hyde Park (30 June).
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Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses have been confirmed as Pyramid Stage headliners for the 2023 Glastonbury festival, joining the previously announced Elton John.
The 2023 event is scheduled for 21-25 June at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.
The 13 Artists-booked Arctic Monkeys will top the bill for the third time, having previously headlined in 2007 and 2013, while Guns N’ Roses, represented by ITB, will be making their Glastonbury debut.
More than 50 artists have been announced for the festival, including Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Aitch, Lil Nas X, Fred Again.., Royal Blood, Lewis Capaldi, Christine and the Queens, Blondie, Wizkid, Becky Hill, Manic Street Preachers, Maneskin, Mahalia, Candi Staton, Alt-J, Carly Rae Jepsen, Central Cee, Young Fathers, Kelis, Cat Burns, FLO, The War on Drugs, Rina Sawayama, Sparks, Texas and The Chicks.
The Sunday afternoon “legends slot” goes to Yusuf/Cat Stevens, with more acts still to be announced.
“Next year it’s looking like we’ve got two female headliners, so fingers crossed”
While there is an almost 50:50 split between male and female acts on the bill (52% male), all three headliners are male.
“This year, we did have a female headliner, and she unfortunately had to pull out,” co-organiser Emily Eavis tells the BBC. “It changes all the time. But next year it’s looking like we’ve got two female headliners, so fingers crossed.”
Speaking to the Guardian, she adds: “We’re trying our best so the pipeline needs to be developed. This starts way back with the record companies, radio. I can shout as loud as I like but we need to get everyone on board.”
Tickets for the 2023 festival sold out last November in just over an hour, despite a 26% price increase for the 2023 edition.
General sale tickets cost £335 (€385) for 2023, up 26% on the £265 (€304) charged when tickets last went on sale in 2019. Tickets were subsequently rolled over until 2022 when the 2020 and 2021 festivals were cancelled due to the pandemic.
Glastonbury previously posted a loss of £3.1 million for the year ending March 2021, according to Companies House documents.
Ahead of the 2023 event, Glastonbury has also announced a multi-year partnership with Vodafone. As Official Connectivity Partner, Vodafone has exclusive rights to the festival and throughout the partnership will use its network to “deliver innovative experiences using cutting-edge technology”.
Vodafone’s network will be boosted to the highest capacity ever, while customers will be able to gain access to festival tickets via its VeryMe Rewards programme available on the MyVodafone app. VeryMe promotions and experiences will also be available to everyone who is at the Festival.
The partnership will also see the launch of a brand-new Official Glastonbury Festival app, with a host of new features, as well as free phone charging for everyone at the festival.
“We are so pleased to have Vodafone on board as a new partner for the festival,” adds Eavis. “The commitment they have made to supporting our festival in its technical and network requirements as well as other projects throughout the year is great, and we look forward to working with them in the years ahead.”
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Guns N’ Roses have unveiled details of their 2023 world tour, produced by Live Nation.
The rock legends will start the run on 5 June in Tel Aviv, Israel at Park Hayarkon and will continue across Europe, wrapping up at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece on 22 July.
The band, who have been heavily tipped to headline thew UK’s Glastonbury festival, will then head back to North America, starting on 5 August in Moncton, NB at Medavie Blue Cross Stadium. They will visit venues across such as Fenway Park in Boston (21 August) and Wrigley Field in Chicago (24 August), before concluding in Vancouver, Canada on 16 October. The general onsale will start this Friday, 24 February.
It will mark the first time the group have toured North America since 2021’s We’re F’N Back! Tour, which included their first headlining performance at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles.
Guns N’ Roses’ 2016-19 Not in this Lifetime reunion world tour saw them play 158 concerts across six continents en route to becoming the third-highest grossing tour of all time. According to Billboard figures, the Live Nation-promoted tour grossed US$584.2 million from 5,371,891 ticket sales.
The full list of tour dates is as follows:
Mon Jun 05 – Tel Aviv, Israel – Park Hayarkon
Fri Jun 09 – Madrid, Spain – Civitas Metropolitan Stadium
Mon Jun 12 – Vigo, Spain – Estadio Abanca Balaídos
Thu Jun 15 – Dessel, Belgium – Grasspop Metal Meeting
Sat Jun 17 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Copenhell
Wed Jun 21 – Oslo, Norway – Tons of Rock
Tue Jun 27 – Glasgow, UK – Bellahouston Park
Fri Jun 30 – London, UK – BST Hyde Park
Mon Jul 03 – Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsch Bank Park
Wed Jul 05 – Bern, Switzerland – BERNEXPO
Sat Jul 08 – Rome, Italy – Circo Massimo
Tue Jul 11 – Landgraaf, Netherlands – Megaland
Thu Jul 13 – Paris, France – La Defense
Sun Jul 16 – Bucharest, Romania – National Arena
Wed Jul 19 – Budapest, Hungary – Puskás Arena
Sat Jul 22 – Athens, Greece – Olympic Stadium
Sat Aug 05 – Moncton, NB – Medavie Blue Cross Stadium
Tue Aug 08 – Montreal, QC – Parc Jean Drapeau
Fri Aug 11 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
Tue Aug 15 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
Mon Aug 21 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park
Thu Aug 24 – Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field
Sat Aug 26 – Nashville, TN – GEODIS Park
Tue Aug 29 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
Fri Sep 01 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Sun Sep 03 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre
Wed Sep 06 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
Sat Sep 09 – St. Louis, MO – Busch Stadium
Tue Sep 12 – Knoxville, TN – Thompson-Boling Arena
Fri Sep 15 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live
Wed Sep 20 – Biloxi, MS – Mississippi Coast Coliseum
Sat Sep 23 – Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Stadium
Tue Sep 26 – San Antonio, TX – Alamodome
Thu Sep 28 – Houston, TX – Minute Maid Park
Sun Oct 01 – San Diego, CA – Snapdragon Stadium
Sun Oct 08 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival
Wed Oct 11 – Phoenix, AZ – Chase Field
Mon Oct 16 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place
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IQ 106, the latest issue of the international live music industry’s favourite monthly magazine, is available to read online now.
The December 2021 edition is spearheaded by an exclusive preview of next year’s highly anticipated International Live Music Conference (ILMC).
Elsewhere, IQ news editor James Hanley speaks to Paradigm Agency’s Alex Hardee and Adele Slater about Liam Gallagher’s sold-out Knebworth shows.
This issue also sees IQ editor Gordon Masson quiz venue management from around the world about their plans for arenas to reopen and stay open.
For this edition’s columns and comments, Suzanne Hunt details how Squeeze became one of the first UK acts to resume touring in the United States, lawyer Gregor Pryor notes the challenges that the metaverse could pose for the music industry, and Debbie Taylor shares her experience of Guns N’ Roses’ Covid-compliant US tour.
And, in this month’s Your Shout, live industry executives pick their three ideal guests for a dinner party.
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Some of the world’s biggest artists, collectively worth more than US$1 billion in ticket revenue between 2018 and 2020, will hit the road again in 2021 and ’22, as confidence builds for a return to international touring over the next 12 months.
Sir Elton John, Celine Dion, Metallica, Michael Bublé, Guns N’ Roses, Bruce Springsteen and Eagles – all of whom ranked among the highest-grossing tours of 2018, 2019 and 2020, grossing more than $1bn between them – have in recent weeks revealed plans for new or rescheduled global tours, many of them starting as soon as this summer.
Sir Elton has extended his disrupted final tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Road, with a bumper 30-date, six-month stadium run across across mainland Europe, the UK and the United States.
https://twitter.com/eltonofficial/status/1407684876338405378
“Hello, all you wonderful fans out there. I’m coming to you today with an announcement I’ve been working towards for, well, all my life: the shows that I announce today will be my final tour dates ever in North America and Europe,” he says in a statement.
“I’m going to go out in the biggest possible way, performing at my very best, with the most spectacular production I’ve ever had, playing in places that have meant so much to me throughout my career.
“Whether it’s next summer in Frankfurt or at the legendary Dodger Stadium for the grand finale in the United States, I can’t wait to see you all on the road one last time. This has been an incredible tour so far, full of the most amazing highs, and I look forward to making more wonderful memories with you at these final shows.”
The Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, Sir Elton’s farewell tour, was brought to a halt by the coronavirus pandemic last March, with the last show on 7 March 2020 at Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta, Australia. The tour resumes on 1 September at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin and will conclude in Australasia in 2023.
The tour, produced and promoted by AEG Presents, grossed $212 million in 2019 and $71.2m in 2020.
“I’m going to go out in the biggest possible way, performing at my very best”
Springsteen, who grossed an incredible $88.3m from his Springsteen on Broadway shows, which had an average ticket price of $509, in 2018, also has live plans for 2022.
As well as reviving Springsteen on Broadway, Springsteen confirmed to E Street Radio on SiriusXM he is planning a full tour with his E Street Band in 2022. “I knew we were going to tour with the band next year,” he said, “[but] I had a friend who got so enthusiastic about it [Springsteen on Broadway] that he talked me into it sitting on my couch one night. The next day I said, ‘OK, we’ll do some shows.’ It really came around kind of casually.”
Eagles, meanwhile recently added another six dates to their long-delayed Hotel California tour, which kicks off at Madison Square Garden in New York in August.
While the band has only announced the rescheduled US dates so far (the first leg ends at Chase Center in San Francisco on 23 October 2021), pre-pandemic the Live Nation-promoted tour included included dates in London (Wembley Stadium) and Los Cabos, Mexico (Cabo en Vivo), so it is expected that additional European and Latin American shows are still to be announced.
Eagles grossed $166m from their 2018 North American tour.
Metal titans Metallica earlier this month announced six European festival shows for 2022, adding to the open-air shows pencilled in for the US in September, October and November 2021.
“We have waited far too long to say these words: we’re getting back out there”
Under the banner The Return of the European Summer Vacation, the band will play headline shows at Denmark’s Copenhell, the Netherlands’ Pinkpop, Italy’s Firenze Rocks, the Czech Republic’s Prague Rocks, Belgium’s Rock Werchter, Spain’s Mad Cool and Portugal’s NOS Alive. .
“We have waited far too long to say these words: we’re getting back out there and are finally announcing our return to Europe in 2022,” say Metallica in a statement. “Needless to say, we cannot wait to see all of you once again as our European ’tallica Family will finally have a chance to reunite in June and July of next year.”
The festivals next year will be Metallica’s first European shows since their Worldwired global tour, which grossed a total of $179m in 2019.
Elsewhere, Bublé (who grossed $115.8m in 2019 and $24.8m in 2020) is resuming his An Evening With Michael Bublé tour in North America in August, while Dion’s (2020 gross: $71.2m) postponed Courage world tour will finally kick off the same month in Winnipeg.
Also resuming a postponed tour this summer are Guns’ N Roses, whose world stadium tour – newly rechristened We’re F’n’ Back! – will begin at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on 31 July 2021. The tour will include Australasian dates later this year and a string of European stadium shows next summer.
Opening the tour will be the late Eddie Van Halen’s bassist, son Wolfgang, with his band Mammoth WVH.
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Jason Miller, senior vice president of international and emerging markets at Live Nation, has announced that he is leaving the live entertainment giant after over seven years.
Miller held his most recent role at Live Nation since 2016, after previously serving as senior vice president of the company’s operations in Asia.
Prior to joining Live Nation, he operated a concert consultancy and spent more than a decade as an agent at CAA.
“I am humbled by the record-breaking tours this team executed”
In a social media post, replicated by Celebrity Access, the live industry veteran wrote that he had “officially moved on” from his role at Live Nation.
“I am incredibly proud of the team I built at Live Nation. I am humbled by the record-breaking tours this team executed (U2, Coldplay, Madonna, Bruno Mars, Guns & Roses, etc, etc),” reads the post.
“I am grateful for all the career changing experiences I’ve had at Live Nation over the last 7+ years.”
Miller adds that he is unsure “where my next adventure will lead, but I am excited for what the future holds.”
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