POP PUNK BAND 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER TO PLAY AT KFC YUM! CENTER ON AUGUST 4, 2015
Tickets on sale Saturday, August 9, 2014
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Louisville, KY (July 30, 2014) – Pop punk sensations 5 Seconds of Summer announced today their massive 2015 Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour in support of their Billboard chart-topping, self-titled debut album. The band's first-ever North American headlining tour, produced and promoted exclusively by Live Nation and presented by Nabisco, the makers of OREO, RITZ and HONEY MAID, will kick off on July 17, 2015 at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The tour will take the breakout band to amphitheaters and arenas in 30 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, including a stop in Louisville at KFC Yum! Center on Tuesday, August 4.
The hottest ticket of the 2015 summer concert season will go on-sale starting Saturday, Aug. 9 at the KFC Yum! Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Citi® cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 10:00 a.m. local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
This past Saturday, thousands of fans converged on The Forum in Los Angeles where tickets went on sale for the band's first-ever headlining arena performance. The quartet treated nearly 6,000 attendees to a special three-song acoustic set. All available tickets for the Nov. 15 show sold out instantly leading the band to add a second date on Nov. 16 at The Forum. Tickets for the second show go on sale on Aug. 9. Leading up to both Forum dates, the band will now also play a brand new show at the Ak-Chin Pavilion on Nov. 13, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz. Tickets for that show will also go on sale on Aug. 9.
The band's self-titled debut album on Capitol Records rocketed to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 moving 258,000 units. 5 Seconds of Summer are special guests on the One Direction Where We Are World Tour, set to hit North America on Aug. 1.
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER "ROCK OUT WITH YOUR SOCKS OUT" SUMMER 2015 HEADLINING TOUR *Tickets on sale starting Aug. 9 at www.livenation.com. **All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
July 17, 2015 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Event Center July 18, 2015 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre July 20, 2015 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre July 22, 2015 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre July 24, 2015 Seattle, WA Key Arena July 25, 2015 Vancouver, BC Pepsi Live At Rogers Arena July 27, 2015 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place July 29, 2015 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre July 31, 2015 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center Aug. 1, 2015 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Aug. 4, 2015 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center Aug. 5, 2015 Atlanta, GA Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood Aug. 7, 2015 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion Aug. 8, 2015 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Aug. 19, 2015 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills Aug. 21, 2015 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena Aug. 22, 2015 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Pavilion Aug. 23, 2015 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion Aug. 25, 2015 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre Aug. 28, 2015 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center Aug. 29, 2015 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Pavilion Stadium Aug. 30, 2015 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center Sept. 1, 2015 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Sept. 4, 2015 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center Sept. 5, 2015 Hartford, CT Xfinity Theatre Sept. 6, 2015 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live Sept. 7, 2015 Virginia Beach, VA Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach Sept. 9, 2015 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion Sept. 12, 2015 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Sept. 13, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
Nov. 13, 2014 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion (on sale Aug. 9) Nov. 15, 2014 Los Angeles, CA The Forum (sold-out) Nov. 16, 2014 Los Angeles, CA The Forum (on sale Aug. 9)
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About the KFC Yum! Center
The KFC Yum! Center is Louisville’s newest multi-purpose arena that boasts a total of 721,762 square feet while offering an arena bowl exceeding 22,000 seats and four meeting rooms spanning approximately 34,000 square feet all within walking distance of more than 4,200 hotel rooms in downtown Louisville. It is home to the University of Louisville men’s and women’s basketball programs and is ideal for concerts, conventions, corporate events, family shows, ice shows, wrestling and more. The KFC Yum! Center is a state of the art facility with advance technology capabilities that is owned by the Louisville Arena Authority and managed by AEG Worldwide. For more information, visit www.kfcyumcenter.com.
About AEG Facilities
AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, is the leading sports, entertainment and venue operator in the world. AEG Facilities, a stand- alone affiliate of AEG, owns, operates or consults with more than 100 of the industry’s preeminent venues worldwide, across five continents, providing complete venue management, as well as specialized programs in operations, guest services, ticketing, booking, sales and marketing. AEG Facilities also provides resources and access to other AEG-affiliated entities, including live event producer, AEG Live, AEG Global Partnerships, AEG Development, AEG 1Earth, AEG Encore and AEG Creative to support the success of AEG venues across the globe. The Los Angeles-based organization owns, operates or provides services to the world’s most elite venues, including KFC Yum! Center (Louisville, Ky.), STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, Calif.), StubHub Center (Carson, Calif.), Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (Los Angeles, Calif.), Sprint Center (Kansas City, Mo.), AmericanAirlines Arena (Miami, Fla.), Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.), Target Center (Minneapolis, Minn.), BBVA Compass Stadium (Houston, Texas), Oracle Arena and O.co Coliseum (Oakland, Calif.), CONSOL Energy Center (Pittsburgh, Penn.), Rabobank Arena (Bakersfield, Calif.), Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai, China), MasterCard Center (Beijing, China), The O2 Arena (London, England), O2 World (Berlin, Germany), O2 World Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany), Ahoy Arena (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Itaipava Arena Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil), Allianz Parque (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Allphones Arena (Sydney, Australia), Ülker Sports Arena (Istanbul, Turkey), Ericsson Globe Arena (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Oman Convention and Exhibition Center (Muscat, Oman). For more information, please visit aegworldwide.com.