Tour Announces Sell Outs in All Markets Put on Sale Including: Los Angeles –
Dodger Stadium, Oakland – McAfee Stadium & E. Rutherford – Giants Stadium
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Tickets for The Police tour continued to skyrocket over the weekend with additional sell-outs in every city put on sale thus far. Following last week’s announcement of multiple sell-outs in Boston, New York and Toronto, tickets for each of the additional cities put on sale this weekend are also now sold out.
Earlier this morning, in excess of 54,000 tickets were sold at Giants Stadium in E. Rutherford (a combined 3 sold out NYC area performances), with an additional 52,500 tickets sold for the Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium performance & 47,000 for Oakland’s McAfee Stadium event. In all, a total of 415,000 tickets have been sold for The Police with additional on-sales to follow!
Additional sell-outs this weekend included Seattle where a 2nd concert date has now been announced as well as in Denver, Phoenix and second performances in both Vancouver & Montreal. Also, due to overwhelming fan demand a third Toronto performance has also now been announced.
The Police tour has also confirmed show dates in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Hershey, Edmonton, Dallas, Miami, Hartford and St. Paul. Information regarding the show dates, venues and on-sales in each of these markets to be made tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. Additional cities and venues to be confirmed in the next few weeks.
Special guest Fiction Plane will join The Police for the North American portion of the tour with additional artists anticipated for the stadium events including special guest Foo Fighters at the LA Dodger Stadium performance on June 23rd.
The North American tour is presented by Best Buy, the leading consumer electronics retailer with nearly 1,000 retail locations in the United States and Canada. Complete details of the Reward Zone program presale can be found at www.bestbuy.com/thepolice. Information about the Canadian concert dates can be found at www.bestbuy.ca/thepolice.
A portion of the proceeds from this tour will be donated to WaterAid, an international NGO founded in 1981 and dedicated to reducing poverty by improving access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education. For information, visit: www.wateraid.org.
The Police World Tour is produced by The Next Adventure, a Live Nation Company (NYSE: LYV) in association with RZO Entertainment, Inc.
For complete tour & ticket information, fan club memberships and more visit: www.thepolicetour.com.
About Live Nation
Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live music company, annually connecting more than 60 million fans with their favorite performers at over 30,000 events. We are the largest producer of live concerts in the world, the second-largest venue management company and have a rapidly growing online presence. Live Nation creates superior experiences for artists and fans, regularly producing tours for the biggest superstars in the business, including The Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, U2 and Coldplay. Globally, we own, operate and/or have booking rights for more than 170 venues, including House of Blues-branded music venues and prestigious locations such as San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium, Nikon at Jones Beach in New York and London’s Hammersmith Apollo and Wembley Arena. Live Nation’s websites collectively are the second most popular entertainment event websites in the United States, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Live Nation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol “LYV.” For more information regarding concerts near you, Live Nation and its businesses, please visit our website at www.LiveNation.com.
SOURCE Live Nation
02/26/2007
CONTACT: Tracy Bufferd of Forge Ahead Media, Inc., +1-212-777-5110,
[email protected], for The Police; or John Vlautin of Live Nation,
+1-310-867-7000, [email protected]
Web site: http://www.wateraid.org
Web site: http://www.thepolicetour.com
Web site: http://www.bestbuy.com/thepolice
Web site: http://www.livenation.com
(LYV)