Guns N’ Roses First International Act to Announce Stadium Tour Post-Lockdown
Guns N’ Roses have announced an Australia and New Zealand tour scheduled for November 2021. This is the first international stadium tour announcement since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Though it is not yet known when exactly Australia will re-open its international borders, local concert promoters are feeling confident with the country’s path out of the coronavirus pandemic. But the announcement has raised eyebrows given The Morrison government has said it hopes to welcome international visitors by late 2021. However, that timeline depends on the distribution of an effective COVID-19 vaccine.
“We’re not doing this lightly,” tour promoter Paul Dainty said. “There was a lot of consideration before we pulled the trigger. I’ve been doing this a long time. We wouldn’t be proceeding if we weren’t 100 per cent confident. There’s a lot of good news around with the vaccine and the like and we wanted to be optimistic and on the front foot.”
“It’s great for the fans, great for the stadiums, great for Australia,” he said. “[Lots of] companies feed off this industry. I think there’ll be a lot of excitement. Stadium rock is back.”
The upcoming, eight-stop Guns N’ Roses tour will hit Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth, as well as Wellington and Dunedin, between Saturday, November 6, 2021 and Wednesday, November 24, 2021.
The internationally renowned rock band last performed in Australia in 2017 with their “Not In This Lifetime” tour. This marked the first tour that saw founding members Axel Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan all take the stage together in over a decade. Each show drew crowds of 50,000 to 70,000 people, with the Melbourne performance making headlines after the rockers greeted the crowd as if they were in Sydney. Following the tour, the band left fans hanging with Slash tweeting that the band would be back Down Under soon.
Tickets for the 2021 tour can be found here.
Guns N’ Roses Australia and New Zealand Tour 2021
Show Date and Time: Saturday, November 6, 2021 – Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Show Location: Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast – Optus Stadium, Perth
