Rock band Bon Jovi announces world tour; to kick off in May with concert at new stadium in NJ
By APThursday, October 22, 2009
Rock band Bon Jovi announces new world tour
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Rock band Bon Jovi announced plans Thursday for a new world tour that will swing by the new home of the New York Giants and Jets.
The two-year tour begins Feb. 19 in Seattle and includes a May 26 show at New Jersey’s new $1.6 billion Meadowlands football stadium, which will be home to the New York Giants and Jets. It will feature 135 shows in 30 countries.
“It’s a big world,” lead singer Jon Bon Jovi said when asked about the length of the tour. “And we still make house calls.”
Bon Jovi and lead guitarist Richie Sambora are New Jersey natives. They said being selected for the first concert at the new stadium holds special meaning for them because they’ve played Giants Stadium more than eight times and consider it home.
“Jon Bon Jovi is a New Jersey guy,” Giants CEO John Mara said.
“He’s a legend in New Jersey,” Jets owner Robert “Woody” Johnson said.
Bon Jovi said going to a football game at Giants Stadium was a special event for him before the band, which formed in 1983, made it big. The Grammy winner grew up in Sayreville and is a Giants season ticketholder.
“I can’t wait until there’s a ballgame,” Bon Jovi said.
The band announced the tour Thursday at an invitation-only performance for 5,000 fan club contest winners and construction workers in the parking lot of the new stadium.
A group of police officers watched the show from a highway overpass as the band worked through a set that included songs from its new album “The Circle” and hits like “You Give Love a Bad Name.”
The band’s “Lost Highway” album tour was the top grossing tour of 2008, according to Billboard Boxscore. It grossed $210.6 million and drew 2,157,675 fans.
Kim Cardino, 42, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., blew a kiss to the band’s sport utility vehicle as it left the parking lot after the show.
“Just in case he’s inside,” Cardino said as her husband and three daughters looked on. “I love Bon Jovi. I wasn’t close enough.”
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 Russel Light |
October 22, 2009: 4:03 pm
——————————————————————————– Bon Jovi Welcomes Fans into The Circle with 2010-2011 World Tour East Rutherford, NJ - October 22, 2009 - With New Jersey’s New Meadowlands Stadium as their backdrop, GRAMMY Award-winning hometown heroes Bon Jovi performed at a concert and media event today that announced “The Circle World Tour.” The band is preparing to spend nearly two years spanning the globe, including the kickoff event of New Meadowlands Stadium, scheduled for May 26th and 27th, 2010. The New Meadowlands concerts will go on sale beginning at 10am on Saturday, October 31st, while additional tour dates go on sale November 9th and 16th. Fans should continue to log on to https://www.bonjovi.com for the most up to date concert and ticket on-sale information. The band’s Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan and Tico Torres performed an exclusive set for a select group of 5,000 lucky contest winners, fan club members, and on-site construction workers currently at work building the New Meadowlands Stadium. Bon Jovi was also joined by New York Jets Chairman & CEO Woody Johnson, New York Giants President & CEO, John Mara, as well as President & CEO of the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, Mark Lamping. New York’s powerhouse radio station WPLJ DJ, Race Taylor, served as emcee. Live footage of the event is available at https://www.BonJovi.com. An embeddable player is available at https://www.iclips.net/widgets/jbj/jbj_embed.html. Beginning with the band’s North American tour launch on February 19th, 2010 in Seattle, WA, Bon Jovi will spend much of the next two years on the road, performing 135 shows in 30 countries. Following in the footsteps of their hugely successful “Lost Highway Tour, Bon Jovi will draw fans around the world into The Circle, with a residency at London’s O2 arena in June 2010 before returning to America in the fall for an additional nationwide leg, and further dates well into 2011. “It is often said that the third time is a charm, and in the case of the Bon Jovi/AEG Live relationship, this axiom certainly holds,” said Randy Phillips, President and CEO of AEG Live. “AEG Live has been honored to serve as the band’s worldwide tour promoters, from the 2005 ‘Have A Nice Day’ tour to the highest grossing tour of 2008, ‘Lost Highway,’ to the upcoming ‘The Circle World Tour’ in 2010. Bon Jovi is one of the most prolific and exciting live rock bands in the world.” Having sold more than 120 million albums and performed more than 2,600 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans, Bon Jovi is at their best when they’re on the move, and that’s truer now than ever before. The November 10th, 2009 release of Bon Jovi’s new album, The Circle, and the band’s subsequent world tour, provides a powerful reassertion of Bon Jovi’s commitment to the hard-hitting rock & roll that has been the band’s indelible signature since it began more than 26 years ago. Bon Jovi’s 2010 “The Circle World Tour” North American Itinerary Advanced tickets to the New Meadowlands Stadium go on sale to American Express Cardmembers beginning at 10am on Monday, October 26th. *For more information on BON JOVI’s North American tour, visit https://www.BonJovi.com. |
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