Classic line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan to tour Australia as Guns N’ Roses

AFTER a successful US tour, classic line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan are heading to Australia for a Guns N’ Roses stadium tour.

Axl Rose is on his way Down Under.

IN CASE you missed it, Guns N’ Roses will be performing at Australian stadiums in February.

The much-anticipated Not In This Lifetime tour of the reunited line-up featuring Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan will kick off in Brisbane at QSAC on February 7 and make its way through the major capital cities in two weeks.

The infamous rock band perform at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium on February 10, celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 14 at the MCG (like what they did with the Roses reference there), Adelaide Oval on February 18 and Perth’s Domain Stadium on February 21.

Tickets start from $91.65 and go on sale from August 26.

The tour kicked off with warm-up gigs in LA and Las Vegas before the band headlined the Coachella festival in California in April.

Duff McKagan, Axl Rose and Slash are back together as Guns N’ Roses.

Since then, Guns N’ Roses have scheduled their runs through the American summer with Axl Roses’s commitments as fill-in frontman for the remaining dates of AC/DC’s Rock Or Bust tour after the departure of Brian Johnson with hearing problems.

Rose had to perform with the Guns and Acca Dacca in Dave Grohl’s Games Of Thrones-inspired rock throne after breaking his foot at their warm-up gig in Los Angeles.

Their Australian concerts will mark the first time Rose and his formerly acrimoniously estranged band mates Slash and McKagan have played together here since their infamous 1993 Use Your Illusion tour.

The Gunners’ guitarist and bassist have been regular visitors for solo projects and with their band Velvet Revolver over the decades, while Rose continued with the band and became legendary for his late stage arrivals stretching into the early hours of the morning.

The re-formed Guns N’ Roses have already toured the US.

The good news for fans who have to book babysitters is the stadiums have strict curfews which leverage fines in the tens of thousands should bands be tempted to keep rock’n’roll hours.

While the Australian leg of the tour has been a given for several months, a neon billboard spilt the beans about the Melbourne MCG show above a pub on Monday.

The Telstra Thanks pre-sale just for Telstra customers starts at 10am in Sydney and Perth, 11am in Melbourne, noon in Brisbane and 1pm in Adelaide on August 23.

Originally published as Classic line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan to tour Australia as Guns N’ Roses