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The Pick Of Friday’s Tickets: TRNSMT, Queen And Adam Lambert, Editors, Blossoms, Travis, Bluesfest, John Fogerty, Steve Miller Band, Jeff Beck, Tom Jones and more…
TRNSMT with Queen and Adam Lambert
Queen and Adam Lambert have been announced as the final headliners for this year’s TRNSMT at Glasgow Green on July 6, with Texas, the Darkness and The Temperance Movement also set to appear. TRNSMT will also host Arctic Monkeys, Stereophonics, Liam Gallagher and the Killers. Tickets are on sale at 9am on March 9.
Editors will tour the UK and Ireland in October, following up the release of their new LP, ‘Violence’, which is out on March 9 through Play It Again Sam. Tickets go on sale at 9am on March 9.
The band will follow up the release of their new album, ‘Cool Like You’, out on April 27, with shows in Stockport, Leeds, Newcastle, London, Manchester and Norwich in May. Tickets go on general sale at 9am on March 9.
Travis will celebrate their 1999 album, ‘The Man Who’, at shows in June and December, with shows planned in Liverpool, London, Folkestone, Plymouth, Brighton, Ipswich, Birmingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Cambridge, Newcastle, Nottingham, Hull, Manchester and Glasgow. Tickets go on sale at 9am on March 9.
BLUESFEST with John Fogerty and Steve Miller Band
John Fogerty and the Steve Miller Band will share the 2018 Bluesfest bill at London’s O2 Arena on October 25. Tickets go on sale at 10am on March 9.
Jeff Beck will play four UK shows this summer, including a headlining appearance at this year’s Live At Chelsea, alongside shows at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall on June 12, Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on June 13 and the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool on June 16. Tickets for all dates go on sale at 10am on March 9.
The legendary vocalist has announced further summer shows, with new performances confirmed at Powderham Castle and Chester Racecourse in July, alongside stops at Hampton Court Palace Festival and the Edinburgh Summer Sessions, plus dates in London, Thetford, Reading, Alcester, Alnwick, Chichester, Grantham and York. Tickets go on sale at 9am on March 9.
Also announced this week
James Bay, D’Angelo, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Bananarama, the XX, Elf: A Christmas Spectacular, the Smith Street Band, Halestorm, Steve Earle, Everything Everything, Hunter and the Bear, Soccer Mommy, the Stranglers, Ben Caplan, The British Sound Project with Franz Ferdinand, Indigo Husk, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Sir Way, Bhad Bhabie, Spector, Fish, Anderson East, Kyle Craft, Lucius, the Milk, Old Dominion, Luke Combs, Cardiff Festival of Voice, Gwenno, Elvis Costello, Sea Girls, Snail Mail, Raging Speedhorn, the Feeling, IAMDDB, Dylan LeBlanc, Dane Baptiste, Big Ups, Levison Wood, Craig David, Paloma Faith, The Big Feastival, The Daniel Wakeford Experience, Oh Sees, Mona, Stylistics, Beach House, Peach Pit, Zucchero, Team Picture, Paw Patrol Live!, Katie Von Schleicher and more.
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Pre-Sale Tickets: Tom Jones And Emeli Sandé
The legendary Welsh vocalist will tour the UK this summer including stops at the Hampton Court Palace Festival and the Edinburgh Summer Sessions, plus shows in London, Thetford, Reading, Alcester, Chichester and Grantham during July.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale at 9am on March 1, prior to general sale at 9am on March 2, priced £45.00/£49.50 plus fees.
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Emeli Sandé has announced a London date at the Old Royal Naval College on July 3 as part of Greenwich Music Time. Her summer tour plans also include a show at Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale at 9am on March 1, ahead of general sale on March 2 at 9am, priced £49.50 plus booking fees.
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Queen + Adam Lambert Top Stereoboard’s Hot Ticket Chart For April
Queen + Adam Lambert have knocked Metallica off the top spot and are now at #1 on Stereoboard’s Hot Ticket Chart for April. Coming in at #2 is Bruno Mars, who will take his 24K Magic tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2018, while making up the rest of the top 10 are Migos & Lil Yachty, Bananarama, Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff (Livewire Festival), Paramore, Wireless Festival, Ed Sheeran, Chris Rea and Paul Weller.
At the bottom of this month’s chart we have Giggs, who last month completed his spring Landlord tour, The Next Step, which will see the live accompaniment to the CBBC TV show take in dates across the UK and Ireland, Bob Dylan, who will tour North America this summer, Steps, who hit the road in November and December for the Party On The Dancefloor arena tour, and Tori Amos, who will return to the UK and Europe this autumn for the Native Invader tour.
Check back in with us next month to see if the below are able to keep hold of their top 40 positions or if we’ll be welcoming some new names to the chart.
1. Queen + Adam Lambert
2. Bruno Mars
3. Migos & Lil Yachty
4. Bananarama
5. Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff (Livewire Festival)
6. Paramore
7. Wireless Festival
8. Ed Sheeran
9. Chris Rea
10. Paul Weller
11. Celine Dion
12. Linkin Park
13. Iron Maiden
14. Stormzy
15. George Ezra
16. Little Mix
17. Micky Flanagan
18. Royal Blood
19. J Hus
20. Depeche Mode
21. Take That
22. James Arthur
23. Guns N’Roses
24. Lovebox
25. The Kooks
26. Good Mourning Mrs Brown
27. Tom Jones
28. U2
29. Michael Ball and Alfie Boe
30. Wet Wet Wet
31. Kasabian
32. UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey
33. Coldplay
34. Popcaan
35. Olly Murs
36. Giggs
37. The Next Step
38. Bob Dylan
39. Steps
40. Tori Amos
On sale in the next week – can they break the top 40?
3. Stone Sour
4. Hurts
5. Tigers Jaw
Metallica At #1 On Stereoboard’s Hot Ticket Chart For March
Thrash legends Metallica have hit #1 on March’s Hot Ticket Chart, bumping Ed Sheeran into second place. Following closely behind are Steps, who hit the road in November and December for the Party On The Dancefloor arena tour, Eminem, who will headline Reading and Leeds and perform as part of the Glasgow Summer Sessions at Bellahouston Park in August, and Little Mix, who will kick off their Summer Shout Out tour at the end of May and head out on their Glory Days arena run in September, October and November.
At the bottom of this month’s chart we have Ricky Gervais, Wireless Festival, Eddie Vedder, The xx and Elbow. Come back and see us next month to check if they’ve been able to cling on to their top 40 positions or if we’ll be waving them goodbye and welcoming some new blood.
1. Metallica
2. Ed Sheeran
3. Steps
4. Eminem
5. Little Mix
6. Jamiroquai
7. Bruno Mars
8. V Festival
9. Stormzy
10. Guns N’Roses
11. Michael Ball and Alfie Boe
12. Kasabian
13. Good Mourning Mrs Brown
14. U2
15. The Weeknd
16. Micky Flanagan
17. Iron Maiden
18. Catfish And The Bottlemen
19. HIM
20. Lady Antebellum
21. Drake
22. Olly Murs
23. Phil Collins
24. The Next Step
25. Happy Mondays
26. Gorillaz
27. J. Cole
28. Tom Jones
29. Coldplay
30. Hanson
31. Robbie Williams
32. UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey
33. James Arthur
34. Tory Lanez
35. Nashville In Concert
36. Ricky Gervais
37. Wireless Festival
38. Eddie Vedder
39. The xx
40. Elbow
On sale this week – can they break the top 40?
2. Paramore
3. Tori Amos
4. Royal Blood
5. Gary Numan
Ed Sheeran Tops Stereoboard’s Hot Ticket Chart For February
Ed Sheeran has done it, he’s knocked U2 off the top spot and all the way down to #16 on February’s Hot Ticket Chart. Following closely behind in second place is Celine Dion, who will return to the UK this summer for an arena tour. At #3 is J.Cole who brings his 4 Your Eyez Only world tour to the UK and Ireland this autumn, while Drake, who will return to the UK next week for the final dates of the UK and Ireland leg of his Boy Meets World tour, has dropped one place from last month’s chart to fourth position and Ricky Gervais, who next week continues with the UK and Ireland leg of his Humanity world tour, finishes off the top five.
At the bottom of this month’s chart we have Elbow, The Chainsmokers, Eminem (Reading & Leeds Day Tickets), The xx, Sum 41 and Rag’n’Bone Man. Check back in with us next month to see if they’re able to hold on to their top 40 positions or if we’ll be bidding them adieu.
1. Ed Sheeran
2. Celine Dion
3. J.Cole
4. Drake
5. Ricky Gervais
6. Little Mix
7. Nashville In Concert
8. John Mayer
9. Stormzy
10. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
11. The Weeknd
12. Lady Gaga
13. Rod Stewart
14. Jamiroquai
15. Bruno Mars
16. U2
17. Michael Ball and Alfie Boe
18. Neil Diamond
19. Wireless Festival
20. Ryan Adams
21. Olly Murs
22. Guns N’Roses
23. Leftfield
24. Micky Flanagan
25. Green Day
26. Kehlani
27. Giggs
28. James Arthur
29. Bob Dylan
30. Robbie Williams
31. Adele
32. TRNSMT
33. Kings of Leon
34. PVRIS
35. Elbow
36. The Chainsmokers
37. Eminem (Reading & Leeds Day Tickets)
38. The xx
39. Sum 41
40. Rag’n’Bone Man
On sale this week – can they break the top 40?
1. Shed Seven
2. Steps
3. Tom Jones
Pre-Sale Tickets: Tom Jones, La La Land In Concert, Sean Kelly And The Stars Of Storage Hunters, Legends Live and Lil Peep
The legendary singer will call at Gloucester’s Kingsholm on June 25, with tickets on pre-sale at 9am on March 8, 24 hours ahead of general sale, priced £40.00 plus fees. Jones also plays outdoor shows in Nottingham, Cartmel, Northwich, Scarborough, Rugeley, Esher, Canterbury and Glasgow this summer.
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The multi Academy Award-winning musical will be brought to audiences via a huge screen accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Bristol’s Colston Hall, York’s Barbican, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre between September 21 and 28. Tickets are on pre-sale at 10am on March 9, 24 hours ahead of general sale, priced from £39.50 plus fees.
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SEAN KELLY AND THE STARS OF STORAGE HUNTERS
Star of the television show Storage Hunters, auctioneer Sean Kelly, T-Money and Green Mile, will bring a night of comedy and charity auction to venues across the UK this autumn. Kelly will be joined on-stage by T-Money and Green Mile who will both perform their own stand up sets and help with the auction finale of the show. Pre-Sale tickets are on sale now, prior to general sale at 10am on March 10, priced from £21.00 plus fees.
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The Legends Live tour will return to UK arenas this autumn, featuring performances from Suzi Quatro, David Essex, the Osmonds and Hot Chocolate in Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Brighton and Cardiff during October. Tickets are on pre-sale now, ahead of general sale at 10am on March 10, priced £45.00/£48.50 plus fees.
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The Long Island hip hop artist will play London’s Omeara on April 7, with tickets on pre-sale at sale at 10am on March 10, ahead of general sale at 10am on March 13, priced £6.50 plus fees.
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Top Tours This Week!!
V Festival
P!nk and Jay Z will headline this year’s V Festival with Rudimental, Craig David, Jess Glynne, Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics, Ellie Goulding, Stormzy, George Ezra, Jason Derulo, Madness, Sean Paul, Dizzee Rascal, Sigma, James Arthur, Clean Bandit, Gorgon City and many more also set to perform at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in Staffordshire on August 19 and 20.
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Tickets go on general sale at 9am on March 3, priced from £89.00 plus fees.
Sleaford Mods
Sleaford Mods, who release ‘English Tapas’ on March 3, will call at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on September 22 before heading to Newcastle, Lincoln, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton, Brighton, Cambridge, Norwich and Nottingham between October 5 and November 9.
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Tickets go on general sale at 9am on March 3, priced £18.50/£22.50 plus fees.
The Maccabees
The Maccabees will play warm up dates in Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle before their farewell shows this summer.
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Tickets for the new shows will go on general sale at 9am on March 3, priced £30.00 plus fees.
Gabrielle Aplin
Gabrielle Aplin will tour the UK this autumn, with stops planned in Glagsow, Manchester, Cambridge, Brighton, Bristol and London between October 18 and 26.
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Tickets will go on general sale at 9am on March 3, priced £16.50/£19.00 plus fees.
Michael Kiwanuka
The British soul singer-songwriter will head to Birmingham, Salford, Perth, York, Liverpool, Exeter and Brighton between October 16 and 24, following up a run of previously confirmed dates this spring.
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Tickets will go on general sale at 10am on March 3, priced £17.50/£19.50/£22.50 plus fees.
Bad Religion
Bad Religion will play London’s O2 Forum and the O2 Academy Bristol prior to headlining this year’s Rebellion Festival in early August.
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Tickets for the band’s headline dates go on general sale at 9am on March 3, priced £20.00/£25.00 plus fees.
The Next Step
The Next Step live show will return to venues in Dublin, Bristol, Plymouth, Ipswich, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Blackpool, York and Liverpool during May and June.
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Tickets are on sale at 9am on March 3, priced from £31.00/£41.00 plus fees.
Erasure
Erasure have announced May headline shows in Glasgow, Manchester and London prior to opening for Robbie Williams this summer.
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Tickets are on sale at 10am on March 3, priced £35.00/£37.50 plus fees.
Phil Collins
Phil Collins will call at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on June 2, prior to his run at the Royal Albert Hall and shows at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium and London’s Hyde Park.
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Tickets are on sale at 9am on March 3, priced £65.00 plus fees.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones has confirmed new summer shows at Canterbury’s Spitfire Ground on July 8 and Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park on August 6 as part of the Summer Night At The Bandstand series.
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Tickets on general sale at 9am on March 3, priced £35.00/£60.00 plus fees.
Dreamworks Animation In Concert
Dreamworks Animation in Concert, which will see music from films including Shrek and Madagascar played by a symphony orchestra alongside big screen projections, will head to Belfast, London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Liverpool and Birmingham during November and December.
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Tickets are on sale at 10am on March 3, priced £24.50 plus fees.
Also announced this week, so far
Band Of Horses, Primal Scream, The Flaming Lips, Insane Clown Posse, Sigur Ros, Tony Bennett, Gary Numan, Brian Wilson, Will Varley, Minus The Bear, Madball, Thurston Moore, Madina Lake, The Selecter, The Beat feat. Ranking Roger, Tennis, Muna, Betsy, Diane Birch, Jake Miller, The Jackobins, Lisa Mitchell, Andrew Combs, Michelle Branch, Marika Hackman, Future Islands, Isaac Gracie, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Simon Amstell, Mothership, Into The Ark, Animals As Leaders, John Wilson, Paul Draper, Wilderness Festival, Latitude Festival, Longitude Festival, Sigrid, Indigo Velvet, Tycho, C Macleod, Telepathy, Straight Lines, Electric Six, Froth, Natives, Ulrika Spacek, John Mayall, Petrol Girls, Vader, Full of Hell, Bat Sabbath (Cancer Bats) and more!
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The Pick Of Friday’s Tickets: J.Cole, Craig David, Blondie, Michael Ball And Alfie Boe, Rod Stewart And Tom Jones
J. Cole has announced autumn arena shows in Nottingham, Birmingham, London, Dublin, Cardiff, Manchester and Leeds as part of his 2017 4 Your Eyez Only world tour. Tickets on general sale at 10am on February 24, prices start at £40.00/£54.65 plus fees.
Craig David has confirmed summer dates at Cleethorpes’ Meridian Showground on July 14 and Southampton’s Ageas Bowl on September 1. Tickets are on sale at 10am on February 24, priced £35.00/£50.00 plus fees.
Blondie will head to the Roundhouse on May 3, prior to the release of their new album, ‘Pollinator’, which is due out on May 5. Tickets are on general sale at 10am on February 24, priced £47.50 plus fees.
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe have added two London dates to their summer tour plans, including a show at Hampton Court Palace on June 23 and a Greenwich Music Time performance at the Old Royal Naval College on June 30. Tickets are on sale at 10am on February 24, priced £45.00 plus fees. Click here for pre-sale tickets.
Rod Stewart has lined up summer dates at Shrewsbury’s Greenhous Meadow stadium on June 7 and Durham County Cricket Club’s Emirates Riverside stadium two days later. Tickets are on general sale at 9am on February 24, priced £47.50 plus fees. Click here for pre-sale tickets.
Tom Jones will return to Scarborough Open Air Theatre on July 2, alongside sets in Sherwood Pines Forest, Delamere Forest and Cannock Chase Forest. Tickets are on sale at 9am on February 24, priced from £35.00 plus fees. Click here for pre-sale tickets.
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