Entertainment News

Sun, 7 February 2010

JOHN MAYER Tours Australia 2010

Filed under: pop music, rock music, Tours — site admin @ 3:47 pm

CHUGG Entertainment today confirmed John Mayer’s five-date tour of Australia this April and May, starting in Brisbane and 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 will head downunder with the 70’s and 80’s California rock/pop sound of his new album, Battle Studies, for his tour of the same name.

The tour plays New Zealand first and in Australia starts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on April 30, then at 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 only its second time, on May 7, and on May 8 Mayer wraps up his tour in Sydney at its 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.

The Sydney Entertainment Centre tickets will be on sale from www.ticketmaster.com.au and all other shows from www.ticketek.com.au.

All 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 www.visaentertainment.com.au .

The Battle Studies Tour will be Mayer’s seventh time playing Australia.

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.

Pre-sale details available at www.visaentertainment.com.au .

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

TOUR DATES

Tuesday 27 April TSB Arena, Wellington

Ticketek: www.ticketek.co.nz

Wednesday 28 April Vector Arena, Auckland

Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.co.nz or

09 970 9700

Friday 30 April Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane

Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849