Justin Bieber joins Australian summer stadium line-up with Purpose tour
AFTER leaving fans waiting all weekend, Justin Bieber has confirmed the dates and venues for his stadium tour Down Under in March.
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GUNS N’ Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay and ... now Justin Bieber joins Australia’s superstar summer of stadium concerts.
It was no secret Bieber would be bringing his Purpose shows to Australia in 2017 but there is some surprise he would be stepping up to stadiums on his third world tour.
He has booked mostly indoor arenas throughout America and Europe since kicking off the tour in the US in March.
Hopefully the bigger venues will satisfy the demand for tickets, with some young female fans hitting up the social media accounts of promoter Frontier Touring with enough expletives to make a football coach blush when VIP packages sold out instantly for his Believe tour a few years ago.
Beliebers have been anticipating the confirmation of his Australian concerts since Frontier posted a countdown clock with the hashtag #whereareunowOZNZ late last week.
The Sorry star will open his five stadium concerts in Australia and New Zealand on March 6 at Perth’s nib Stadium and finish up in Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on March 18.
#whereareunowOZNZ | https://t.co/Nvnss3SUOq | https://t.co/ZIootHkdPP https://t.co/uAEgE2Koqj
— Frontier Touring (@frontiertouring) October 2, 2016
His setlist draws heavily from the Purpose record including the hits I’ll Show You, Sorry, Love Yourself, Company and What Do You Mean.
His chart-topping collaborations, Where Are You Now, with Skrillex and Diplo, Cold Water with Major Lazer and Let Me Love You with DJ Snake also get a live airing in the show.
Old favourites featured in the setlist are Boyfriend, Baby and As Long As You Love Me.
The diehard Beliebers will have two VIP packages to choose from for the Purpose concerts but they do not include any meet-and-greet action with the Canadian pop star cancelling the grin-and-grip photo sessions with fans in March.
Most of Bieber’s tickets will sell for between $85 and $185.
For Australia, Bieber is bringing one of the biggest EDM artists in the world to open the shows, 20-year-old Dutch producer and DJ Martin Garrix, who is enjoying another hit here with In The Name Of Love.
Coldplay opens the stadium season in December with their A Head Full Of Dreams tour, Springsteen has booked stadiums and open air concerts as well as a handful of indoor arena concerts on his 2017 return and Guns N’ Roses are playing the bigger sports centres on their Not In This Lifetime reunion tour in February.
Beyonce fans remain hopeful she will bring her enormous Formation shows here in early 2017 with the huge production requiring an outdoor venue.
All ticket details will be confirmed before they go on sale. The Frontier members pre-sale kicks off on October 10, with general public seats available from October 12.
The on-sale times will differ in each city in an attempt to reduce the amount of traffic hitting the ticketing sites.
nib Stadium, Perth, March 6, from noon, October 12. ticketmaster.com.au
Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, March 10, from 1pm, October 12, ticketmaster.com.au
Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, March 13, from 1pm, October 12, ticketek.com.au
ANZ Stadium, Sydney, March 15, ticketek.com.au, from 4pm, October 12, ticketek.com.au
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