Rock icon Rod Stewart announces another Australian tour
ROD Stewart announces an Australian-wide tour for April and May next year, just months after he turns 70. Has he plans to retire?
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ROD Stewart will tour Australia next year — shortly after his 70th birthday.
Rod Stewart will take his Hits tour around the country next March and April.
He turns 70 in January, but has no imminent plans to retire.
“It’s something that can’t go on forever obviously, but I am booked all the way through 2015,” Stewart said.
“I’ve got the energy, the voice is in good stead, the people are still coming out to see me which I very much appreciate. And I’m still enjoying it.”
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The rock icon said wife Penny Lancaster is more excited about his milestone birthday than he is.
“My wife is trying to organise a big 70th birthday party and I’m trying to get out of it,” he said.
“Birthdays don’t mean anything to me. I don’t think birthdays mean as much to guys as they do to women. Birthdays come and they go and they don’t worry me at all.”
Stewart has spent much of the year touring the US with Carlos Santana, as well as headlining a Vegas residency.
He is working on the follow up to 2013’s Time, once again penning the bulk of the material after breaking a long period of writer’s block.
Stewart’s return to Hanging Rock will make him the first artist to play at the atmospheric Victorian venue on multiple tours.
His opening act will be James Reyne performing songs from his solo career as well as the hits of Australian Crawl.
Stewart plays Perth Arena on March 21, Rod Laver Arena March 24, Hanging Rock in Macedon on March 28, Adelaide Entertainment Centre March 29, Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney on April 1, Hunter Valley April 5 and Brisbane Entertainment Centre April 7.
Tickets go on sale September 16.
Originally published as Rock icon Rod Stewart announces another Australian tour
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