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• We Will Rock You: The Global Phenomenon Returns To Auckland!

  Posted: Jul 30 2019

  

   

  Theatre Co.  presents

  WE WILL ROCK YOU 

  
  
  Following hot on the heels of the release of the internationally loved Queen biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, the smash hit West End musical WE WILL ROCK YOU returns to Auckland for a strictly limited season playing at the Bruce Mason Centre from August 20 - September 7, 2019.
   

  “WE WILL ROCK YOU hits all the right notes …. You will be rocked.”  - Sydney Morning Herald 
   

  The hilarious futuristic comedy musical written by Ben Elton (The Young Ones, Blackadder, Popcorn) boasts 24 of Queen’s biggest hits, with the scale and spectacle that marked the band’s legendary live performances. Since 2002 over 16 million theatregoers in 28 countries have rocked out to this unique musical based around 24 of Queen’s biggest hits including: We Are The Champions, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Don’t Stop Me Now, Under Pressure, Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust and, of course, We Will Rock You.
  
  For the Auckland season, our very own Annie Crummer returns to the role of the Killer Queen, the tyrannical boss of all-powerful global company that has robbed the world of rock music. Scaramouche and Galileo, two young outsiders, cannot come to terms with this bleak conformist reality created by the Killer Queen. They join the Bohemians, a handful of rock rebels, and embark on the search to find the unlimited power of freedom, love and rock music!
  
  WE WILL ROCK YOU reflects the powerhouse energy and musical genius that earned the band its pinnacle position in rock history. With Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor as music supervisors behind the original production, this is a high-octane hit you won’t want to miss!
  
  Theatre Co’s executive producer Regan Crummer says he wanted to bring the show back to Auckland because he believes the unique combination of one of Britain’s most successful comedy writers (Ben Elton) and legends of rock (Queen) is a winning formula that nearly twenty years on from its debut will still have audiences on their feet. “They are going to be totally immersed in what is basically an epic rock concert!”
  
  "The show is live, dangerous and more than anything else: it rocks!” - Brian May, Queen
  
  WE WILL ROCK YOU plays at the Bruce Mason Centre:
  August 20 - September 7, 2019
  Book at www.ticketmaster.co.nz
  Tickets $60-$90 plus any booking fees 

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• Queen + Adam Lambert Will Rock You - The Rhapsody Tour Live in New Zealand

  Posted: May 03 2019

  

  Hot off the heels of the worldwide box office blockbuster and award-winning movie “Bohemian Rhapsody”,  Queen has taken this opportune timing to set their live touring wheels in motion. Dubbed as the ‘The Rhapsody Tour’, Queen’s original members Brian May and Roger Taylor enlisted flamboyant powerhouse singer Adam Lambert to take on lead vocal duties. Queen + Adam Lambert will rock you as they return to New Zealand in February 2020 for 3 giant stadium shows. Slated to run from February 5 to February 10, 2020, this epic 3-day tour will be their first ever concerts in Wellington and Dunedin and their auspicious return to Auckland. The tour dates are as follows:

   

  Wednesday 5 February         Wellington Westpac Stadium

  Friday 7 February                   Auckland Mt Smart Stadium

  Monday 10 February             Dunedin Forsyth Barr Stadium

   

  Queen drummer Roger Taylor has sent over waves of excitement to Kiwi fans as he exclaims: "We are ready for New Zealand and raring to get back with our new show.”  Lead guitarist Brian May further adds: “This is a great opportunity. Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever and got us our best notices ever. So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious!  Watch out, New Zealand! "

   

  The Rhapsody Tour boasts of a ‘brand-new larger-than-life production’.  Adam Lambert says: “We have been designing a brand new visual spectacle that will reframe these iconic songs and we are excited to unveil it! We are excited to reveal the show to New Zealand fans!”

  

  Ever since the biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” hit the silver screens,  it brought a revival of interest on the life, times, and the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen. Queen was back on the charts, hitting the No. 1 spot again on Billboard’s Artist 100 Chart.  Music chart authorities and the press has declared ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ as officially the world’s most-streamed song from the 20th Century, and in New Zealand, the band scored its highest-charting album in 24 years with the Platinum-selling Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack.

   

  The movie also brought in a surge of new generation of fans who saw from the film that Queen’s unique kind of magic is best experienced live, and the crowd will definitely get jolts of energy to get on their feet, pump their fists, clap their hands, and perhaps also do some vocal calisthenics as they join in the giant sing-along of  anthemic hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", "Radio Gaga", "Another One Bites The Dust", "We Are the Champions", "Killer Queen", "Fat Bottomed Girls", and a whole lot more!

   

  Since 2012, American Idol finalist Adam Lambert has stepped-in for an honorary assignment, as the lead vocalist of Queen while on tour.  Lambert is well aware that he has big shoes to fill in, but his awesome talent and exuberant showmanship holds up his uniqueness as a performer and still manages to evoke nostalgic and exhilarating emotions that pay homage to the illustrious brilliance and artistry of the late Freddie Mercury.  

   

  As Freddie Mercury once sang and prophesied with the lines of ‘The Show Must Go On’, Queen was never one to rest on their laurels and sit on their thrones.  They’re killer Queen! They have never stopped commanding and slayin’ the live stage with their greatest hits.

   

  Queen + Adam Lambert Ticket Info

  
  Ticket Price:  $299 to $689
  

  Tickets available from Ticketmaster

   

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• Metallica’s WorldWired Tour with Slipknot All Set For New Zealand

  Posted: Mar 15 2019

  

   Finally!  The highly-anticipated “WorldWired Tour” from Metallica is bound for New Zealand, and are set to play at Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium on October 31, 2019. Amplifying to the intensity of excitement is special guests Slipknot.

  Metallica will first begin in Australia to play five shows prior to closing out their ‘down under’ tour here in New Zealand.  This will be the first time in six years since Metallica played in Australia, and the first time in nine years since their last show in New Zealand held in Christchurch at the CBS Canterbury Arena on September 21, 2010.

  The nine-year drought  was shaken up recently with a number of clues dropped by drummer Lars Ulrich, raising hopes that indeed Metallica will be making it to New Zealand. Thankfully our sources proved  to be true.

  

  And nothing else matters for Metallica’s biggest and most devoted fans who engaged in relentless pursuits, hoping to get the band’s and concert promoters’ attention.  

  A young 13 year old fan championed ‘operation: bring-Metallica-back-to-New-Zealand’ a 13-year-old super fan named William Bush who launched a campaign calling Metallica fans to sign a petition via change.org.  The young lad collected over 7,000 signatures, and his efforts were definitely not in vain. As Metallica confirmed the New Zealand tour date, the country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern herself,  surprised Bush with two free tickets to the concert as a gesture of thanks for helping pave the way in making this much-awaited dream concert become a reality.

  Metallica are still reeling from the success of their massive U.S. tour, and impending European, Asian and South American tour dates. Metallica has expressed that they are thrilled to set foot and shake the ground down under.

   

  “This trip represents another new adventure for us during the WorldWired tour,” stated Metallica. “It will be the first time we have ever headlined stadiums in Australia and New Zealand. To help us celebrate, our friends in Slipknot will be joining us for the journey.” - Consequenceofsound.net

   

  Rolling Stone magazine has ranked Metallica at no. 61 on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list.  Their illustrious career spans over three decades and are recognized as one of the pillars and stalwarts of the thrash metal movement.   Their formidable body of work became the blueprint for the evolution in sound of the next generation of metal bands

  Metallica’s discography encompasses fifteen albums to date, ten of which are studio recordings, along with four live albums, and one cover album; plus five EPs, 37 singles and 39 music videos. With sales of over 125 million albums worldwide, these releases have spawned mammoth chart-toppers such as “Enter Sandman,” One,” “Master of Puppets,” “Seek and Destroy,” and a whole lot more.   The band has collected 9 Grammys out of 23 nominations, and scooped-up three MTV VMA awards.

   

  Metallica New Zealand Ticket Info

  Metallica’s WorldWired tour had a special fan club pre-selling since March 12. 

  Live Nation pre-sale went live on the 15th March, but is currently sold out.

   

  General sale tickets will be available at 2 pm on March 18, 2019 from Ticketmaster

   

  Ticket Prices

  Seated: $184 - $254

  Standing: $129 - $254

   

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• Alice In Chains’ Concert Tour Headed For Auckland

  Posted: Mar 05 2019

  

  Brace yourselves, Alice In Chains is headed towards Auckland, New Zealand for their much-awaited concert tour.  They’re all set to unleash the dark forces of grunge and metal rock at The Trusts Arena stage on Thursday, 7th March 2019, 7:30 pm.   

  Still reeling in from the release of their sixth studio album in a career spanning 29 years, and their first album release in over five years, “Rainier Fog” puts Alice in Chain back in the map.  Fans have given the album a double thumbs-up. Music critics and the press gave it glowing reviews, and proceeded by a Grammy nomination for Best Rock album, to boot.

  With the fans’ excruciating wait after a five-year album release drought, “Rainier Fog” truly did not disappoint.

  Kerrang! writes: “it’s prime Alice In Chains and the work of a band still managing to hit new peaks of their powers.”

  (The album) “boasts undeniable energy and rhythm,” says Uproxx.  

  Loudwire and Q Magazine were all praises the band for “still making music that holds up to their legacy”; and “juggling power and poignancy like masters.”, respectively.

  The new album harks back to Alice in Chains’ gloomy roots with the speed of metal,  that in a way, sets them apart from other bands from the grunge movement. The album shot up the Billboard charts, hitting the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Rock, Alternative and Hard Music Charts, as well as No. 1 on the iTunes Rock Album Chart.

  

  
  

  With their astonishing career run with over 30 million albums sold, multiplatinum certifications, multiple award nominations and citations, and a multitude of diehard fans all over the world,  Alice In Chains has gone full circle. Founder and lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell explains:

  “We’ve been doing this a long time and this band exists in two different eras...To continue on and still be relevant; to operate the same way we always did before and for the same reasons, which are to make the best music and the best records we can possibly make; and to make ourselves happy, well … it’s nice.”

  This will be the first time and the first show Alice In Chains will be playing in Auckland, calling it as their "New Zealand debut". Hence, Auckland fans have all the valid reasons to go louder than loud.  Don’t miss it!

  
  

  Alice In Chains Ticket Info

  General Admission - standing: $97.70

  General Admission - seating: $97.70

  Restrictions:  All Ages

  Tickets available from Livenation

  
  

  Quick Fire Answers

  Date:  Thu 7 Mar 2019, 7:30 pm

  Venue:  The Trusts Arena, 65-67 Central Park Dr, Henderson, Auckland

  
  

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• Slayer’s Final Tour All Set In New Zealand

  Posted: Feb 13 2019

  

  Slayer announced early 2018 that they’re finally hanging up their guitars and calling it a day.  But these rock titans are not the types who would fade out quietly into the night. True to form, they’re going to slay it one last time with a tour dubbed as ‘The Final World Tour’.  They started their multi-city and global tour de force in May until the end of 2018. However, there was still so much ground to cover and still a great number of fans yearning to see them live for the last time.

  As a result,  Slayer announced the extension of the tour into the year 2019.

   

  “We’ve heard about fans who have driven five, six hours, or flown in from other cities or countries to see us, so we want to assure our fans that we’ll be on the road through 2019 and will get to as many places around the world as possible to make it easier for everyone to come and see us one last time,” says Slayer guitarist Kerry King.

   

  With that said,  it has been recently confirmed that Slayer’s world tour shall include shows in Auckland at the Eventfinda Stadium (formerly North Shore Event Centre) on March 15, 2019, and at the Christchurch, Horncastle Arena on March 17, 2019.  For these shows, in particular, they’re making this show doubly loud as they’re bringing in thrash metal kings Anthrax along for the ride.

  

  Slayer rocked and ruled for over four decades as they thrashed the rock scene game-changing brand of punk, death metal.  MTV has positioned them in rank six as one of the  "greatest metal band of all time". Slayer guitarists Hanneman and King ranked number 10 in Guitar World's "100 greatest metal guitarists of all time" in 2004.  Their 40-year reign spawned 12 studio albums, with a whopping sales of five million albums sold in the United States alone. They have scooped up Grammy Award nominations, with two wins - one for ‘best song’ in 2007 with ‘Eyes of the Insane’ and for ‘Final Six’ in 2008.

   

  Bowing out and making their swan song while at the top of their game is indeed the opportune time for New Zealanders to bid farewell and salute their insanely amazing rock heroes.

   

  Slayer New Zealand Ticket Info
  

  Ticket Price

  • VIP: $212.48 ($199.00 + $13.48 fees)
  • General Admission - Seated: $120.23 ($109.00 + $11.23 fees)
  • Final release - Standing: $130.48 ($119.00 + $11.48 fees)
  • Final release - Seated: $130.48 ($119.00 + $11.48 fees)
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  • Slayer Tickets Christchurch

  
  

  Concert Quick Fire Answers

  • Auckland Date:  Fri 15 Mar 2019, 7:00pm–10:30pm
  • Auckland Venue: Eventfinda Stadium, Wairau Valley
  • Christchurch Date:  Sun 17 Mar 2019, 8:00pm–11:00pm
  • Christchurch Venue: Horncastle Arena, Jack Hinton Dve, Addington
  • All Gigs Restrictions:  R-18

   

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