JOHN MAYER RETURNS TO
TOUR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
THIS APRIL & MAY
Chugg Entertainment today confirmed John Mayer’s seven-date tour of New Zealand and Australia this April
and May, including concerts in Newcastle and Wollongong.
Bringing, in song, his latest on love, heartbreak and life lessons, it’s a wiser, more enlightened Mayer who,
with the 70's and 80's California rock/pop sound of his new album, Battle Studies, heads to the Antipodes for
a tour of the same name.
The tour plays New Zealand first kicking off at Wellington’s TSB
Bank
Arena on Tuesday April 27 and
Auckland’s Vector Arena on Wednesday April 28.
In Australia the tour starts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on April 30, then Melbourne’s Rod Laver
Arena on May 3.
Mayer plays Wollongong for the first time at the WIN Entertainment Centre on May 5.
The Newcastle Entertainment Centre plays host for its second time on May 7, and on May 8 Mayer wraps up
his tour in Sydney at the Entertainment Centre.
All of Mayer’s concerts will be configured with Gold and Silver price categories and tickets go on general
sale Friday February 19.
and the Vector Arena tickets from
In New Zealand, a special Visa Entertainment pre-sale will start at 9am local time on Monday February 15
and run until 5pm Wednesday February 17. Pre-sale ticket details are available at
In Australia, shows ticketed by Ticketek will run a special Visa Entertainment pre-sale from 9am local time
on Monday February 15, until 5pm Wednesday February 17. Pre-sale ticket details are available at
Four studio albums, seven Grammy Awards and nearly 13 million album sales in just nine years, the now
32-year-old isn’t just getting older – a worry he cast adrift with the 2006 release of his here-I-am, blown-
open, mega-success, Continuum – he’s getting better.
Since his 2001 debut, Room For Squares, and the world-wide radio group hug given to its hit, Your Body Is
A Wonderland, as well as the Grammy it brought; to 2003’s Heavier Things and two more Grammys; to his
first co-producing turn with Steve Jordan on the four-time Grammy Award winning, hit-harnessed,
Continuum, which included Waiting On The World To Change, I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You) and
Gravity; to his latest and fourth studio album, his second time producing with Jordan, the November 2009
released, Battle Studies; Mayer’s kind of gravity heads only one way. Up.
He calls Battle Studies a “from-the-gut” confessional and, if it can be said of his album, it is definitely true of
his concerts. They’re intimate with the same “efficiency of simplicity” he says marks his new record.
There’s no assembly-line dancers or manufactured costume changes; it’s Mayer’s sweet voice and what’s
been called his “guitar ninja-dom” that style-up the room—and both these he lets rip.
Whether it’s his heart on his sleeve or the watch on his wrist –
both are obsessions – Mayer wears them
proudly.
Fans keep time.
Mayer makes a practical symphony of the screaming upon screaming upon screaming which is universally
in-chorus at all his live shows. He speaks with his audience, tells them things about himself, lets them know
him.
Fans talk of an ‘afterglow’ having seen him live and they bathe in it for days.
“John makes them feel like he’s singing for just them, to
just them, it’s very personal,” says promoter,
Chairman of Chugg Entertainment, Michael Chugg.
Synchronise your watches people, Mayer is here in April and May.
Tickets on general sale Friday February 19.
JOHN MAYER TOUR DATES – AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Tuesday 27 April
TSB Bank Arena, Wellington
Wednesday 28 April
Vector Arena, Auckland
09 970 9700
Friday 30 April
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Monday 3 May
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Wednesday 5 May
WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
Friday 7 May
Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle
Saturday 8 May
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney
or 1300 883 622
Tickets for all shows on sale at 9am, Friday 19 February
For tour information contact Susan Heymann at Chugg Entertainment
susan@chuggentertainment.com or 02 9361 2200
For record information contact Mariam Dib at Sony Music
mariam.dib@sonymusic.com or 02 9383 6200
Find more information at:
FOR ALL MEDIA ENQUIRIES CONTACT CAVANAGH PR
JULIE CAVANAGH – 61 3 9486 1299 or 0419 306 540 – JULIE@CAVPR.COM.AU
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