The GRAMMY® nominated and EMMY® Award winners’ highly anticipated run of live shows kick off on June 15 at Bonnaroo, makes eight stops in the U.S.
Watch the Tour Announcement Video HERE
Tickets go on sale to the public starting March 1
Fans can register for Verified Fan presale for a chance to access tickets before the general on-sale date
The Grammy ® nominated and Emmy ® award-winning trio, THE LONELY ISLAND(Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) today announced their first ever multi-city tour kicking off on June 15 at Bonnaroo Festival. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will make seven more stops in the U.S. this summer including Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and more, before wrapping June 29 in Minneapolis, MN.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, March 1, at 10am local time at LiveNation.com. Toensure tickets get in to the hands of fans and not scalpers or bots, the tour has partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fanplatform. Fans can register now through Sunday, February 24, at 10pm PT HEREfor the VerifiedFan presale. Registered fans who receive a code will have access to purchase tickets before the general public from Tuesday, February 26, at 10am local time through Thursday, February 28, at 10pm local time.
The Lonely Island’s first major tour comes off the momentum of the group’s first ever live concert at last year’s Clusterfest in San Francisco. The headline performance was packed with special guests including Michael Bolton, T-Pain and Chris Parnell and was met with rave reviews:
“The Lonely Island packed gloriously dumb jokes into a live concert that had its audience roaring with laughter,” said SFWEEKLY.com
“You’ve never really lived until you’ve seen the American classic ‘Jizz in My Pants’ live, which means the vast majority of the planet has never really lived,” said COMPLEX.com
And from The San Francisco Chronicle, “Many of the best moments of the night can’t be described easily,
either because of the boundary-pushing adult content, or the creative stage work.”
In 2006 The New York Times credited The Lonely Island with helping usher in the digital era at SNL. The trio has since amassed over 6.8 million subscribers on YouTube and over 2.3 billion views on their YouTube channel. They have achieved multiple RIAA certified hits, including 2X Platinum single (“I’m On A Boat”), Platinum singles (“Jizz In My Pants”, “I Just Had Sex”, “Everything is Awesome”) and Gold single (“Like A Boss”). Their singles“I’m On A Boat” and album “Turtleneck & Chain” were both nominated for Grammys. In 2014, the group co-wrote “Everything is Awesome,” the theme song to the Oscar® nominated film, The Lego Movie. The song was performed by Tegan ad Sara in collaboration with the trio. It was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars®. Most recently, The Lonely Island teamed up with Beck and Robyn for the song “Super Cool” for the number one film The Lego Movie 2.
THE LONELY ISLAND
2019 Tour Dates
Date City Venue
June 15 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo*
June 18 Washington, DC The Anthem
June 19 Philadelphia, PA The Met Philadelphia
June 21 New York City Venue to be announced
June 22 Brooklyn, NY Kings Theater
June 24 Boston, MA Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
June 26 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
June 29 Minneapolis, MN The Armory
Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration is open HEREnow.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 1, beginning at 10am local time.
*tickets for Bonnaroo already on sale
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ABOUT THE LONELY ISLAND
Friends since childhood from Berkeley, California, The Lonely Island coined their name from the cramped West Coast apartment they shared as comic start-ups. They became a mainstay of the L.A. short-comedy film culture launched by Channel 101, a constantly evolving webisode/film contest where attendees could vote for their favorite five-minute comedy video, and whose alumnus includes Jack Black, Drew Carey, Sarah Silverman and even Flavor Flav. Their willingness to embrace the digital possibilities of comedy was christened by the launch of their own website in 2001, thelonelyisland.com, which was very much in sync with a growing internet fan basethat eagerly followed their online antics. The triumvirate’s breakout skits and experimental embeds would eventually snag them pilot deals with more established comedy holding companies like Comedy Central and Fox, as well as a plumb writing gig for the MTV Movie Awards that would lead to a successful audition with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.
Their 2009 debut album, “Incredibad,” included Emmy® winning sensation “D*** In A Box,” featuring superstar Justin Timberlake. The album also featured the follow-up gold records “J**z In My Pants” and “Like a Boss” which have over 230 million views combined on YouTube. The Grammy® nominated third single “I’m On A Boat” (feat. T-Pain) went platinum and catapulted the album into over 457,000 copies sold making it the #1 selling comedy album in 2009 and 2010. The trio established themselves with the enormously popular series of corresponding Digital Shorts for their singles, which were frequently featured on Saturday Night Live beginning with the debut of the pop culture sensation “Lazy Sunday” in 2005.
Their 2011 album “Turtleneck & Chain,” which debuted at #3 on Billboard, was nominated for a Grammy® in the category of “Best Comedy Album” and featured such talents as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Santigold, and Beck. The album’s first smash single, “I Just Had Sex” (feat. Akon), was certified platinum and has 297 millions views on YouTube. The second single, “The Creep” (feat. Nicki Minaj and John Waters) has over 105 million YouTube views. Additional singles, “Jack Sparrow” (feat. Michael Bolton), has 193 million views and “Threw It On The Ground” has 102 million views on YouTube.
In June 2013, the group released their third studio effort on Republic Records, “The Wack Album”. The album includes songs featuring Hugh Jackman, Kristen Wiig, Robyn, Adam Levine, Kendrick Lamar, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Too $hort, Pharrell Williams, T-Pain, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Solange. The Wack Album’s lead single, “YOLO” (feat. Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar), made YouTube’s “Top 10 Trending Videos” for 2013. They were also recognized by Billboard’s Year-End issue as the #1 Comedy Albums Artists, #1 Comedy Albums Title The Wack Album, #1 Comedy Digital Tracks Artist and #1 Comedy Digital Tracks Title for “Yolo.”
For more information on The Lonely Island, please contact:
Molly Kawachi, [email protected]
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