The biggest music tours of 2019: Here’s to looking forward to looking back by The Singing Teacher
https://rouvasacademyofsinging.com.au/blog/the-biggest-music-tours-of-2019-heres-to-looking-forward-to-looking-back-by-the-singing-teacher/ They say rock’n’roll is a young person’s game, but clearly the major acts coming our way next year didn’t get the memo. There are so many golden oldies touring in 2019 that in years to come, we’ll probably look back at this as the golden age of nostalgia.
Pop princess Kylie Minogue is planning to go all out with celebrations for her 50th birthday
Phil Collins will get the ball rolling in January with a tour in which he professes to be Not Dead Yet (fans in the UK were so unsure how long that promise would hold they allegedly snapped up the tickets for five London dates in 15 seconds). In April, those old smoothies Air Supply will be mellowing out audiences with the help of an orchestra. BYO air supply.
The godfather of punk, 71-year-old Iggy Pop, will be writhing his still-lithe (but indisputably lined) form across our stages in April as part of Bluesfest, with sideshow gigs in Sydney and Melbourne. It’ll be a fun house for sure.
Just to prove nostalgia isn’t solely the preserve of the over-65s, in March the Happy Mondays will be performing their 1990 album Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches in its entirety (or at least the bits Shaun Ryder can still remember the words to). Grab your baggy pants and bucket hat and step on, ravers.
Here are a few more of what we suspect will be the most interesting tours of the first half of the year ahead.
The Eagles
There’ll be no Glenn Frey on this March tour (he died in January 2016), but his son Deacon joins the line-up, alongside Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit from the classic line-up of the band that checked out long ago, but never really left. Vince Gill completes the main ensemble and there’s also a horn and string section to flesh out that mellow West Coast sound. A perch in the Eagles’ nest will set you back anything from a low of $199 to a high of $399.
Kylie Minogue
Our Kylie’s latest Vegas-style extravaganza is named not for the most famous pair of hot pants in music, but rather for her age: inconceivable as it seems, Charlene is now 50 (until May at least). Her music career alone is now 31, and while her debut single I Should Be So Lucky doesn’t make the cut, the set list on this career-spanning, genre-hopping spectacular – divided into six change-of-costume-defined acts, plus encore – reportedly covers pretty much everything else the fans might hope for, all the way from The Loco-Motion at one end to Golden at the other, via Confide in Me, Spinning Around, Can’t Get You Out of my Head and a whole lot more. Sydney, Melbourne, Mt Cotton in Queensland, Perth, Adelaide and the Hunter Valley in March.
The Monkees
It’s not the full Prefab Four – Peter Tork is not in great health, and Davy Jones is long dead – but this is the Monkees line-up fans thought they’d never see, with Micky Dolenz joined onstage by Mike Nesmith for the first time in Australia since 1968. In fact, it’s the first time Nez has played in Australia since 1977, when he toured at the height of his Rio fame. If you’re really a Believer, you’ll have to fork out $599 for the full VIP package in June.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Five years after they were last here as part of The Big Day Out, and 12 years since they last headlined a tour of Australia, Melbourne-born bass legend Flea and his bandmates – including co-founder and singer Anthony Kiedis, long-time drummer Chad Smith, and relative new boy Josh Klinghoffer on guitar (he’s been with the band since 2007) – play a series of stadium and winery gigs, including a first visit to Tasmania. Promising plenty of funk for young and old, it kicks off in Hobart on February 17 and rolls through 10 shows in six states before finishing up in Perth on March 5.
Lily Allen
Given her tabloid life and confessional lyrics, it was probably inevitable that Lily Allen would turn to the memoir, even if, at 33, she’s a touch on the young side for such things. Then again, she’s been on the public radar since becoming one of the first artists to emerge via social media in late 2005 (on My Space – remember that?) so why not. She’s unlikely to be reading excerpts from My Thoughts Exactly on her No Shame tour in February, but it promises to be an intimate affair all the same – just the diminutive singer (and her stack heels) and two synth players, and a catalogue that trawls the wreckage of a failed marriage while all the while keeping “one foot in the rave” (her words, but we like them).
Ozzy Osbourne
The former Black Sabbath frontman has been touring for 50 years but this jaunt around the world – which started in 2017 and isn’t slated to end until 2020 – will be his last. Or so he says. “The thing about music is it’s got no age limit,” he told this paper in October. “If you’re good, you’re good and if you’re having fun, have fun.” Osbourne is one of the biggest names at Download, the heavy rock/metal festival that has its second Melbourne outing, and its first in Sydney, in March. Also on the line-up are Judas Priest, Alice in Chains, Slayer and Rise Against. Rock on, headbangers.
Lauryn Hill
It’s billed as the 20th anniversary tour of her solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and fans of the ex-Fugees singer can probably expect her to play the album in full when she tours in February. But given it’s her only studio album to date, when could they not expect the same? Hill regularly divides audiences by remixing her songs (hey, just because she’s playing the album, don’t go expecting it to sound like the album, OK?) and turning up late, but she still delivers a hell of a show. Just make sure the babysitter doesn’t have to be home by 10.
Nick Cave
Typically, a Cave visit home each summer comes complete with a Bad Seeds tour. This year, it’s the singer-songwriter-screenwriter-sometime-actor solo at a piano, armed with that extensive catalogue of songs and a willingness to take questions from the audience and a promise to answer them with as much good humour, grace and honesty as he can muster. It started in May in New York, when Cave took to the stage for the first of four such dates with the confession that “I have absolutely no idea what I’m really doing here”. By the time he opens the Australian leg in his childhood hometown of Wangaratta on January 3, he’ll presumably have it figured out.
John Mayer
The blues-folk-rock singer-guitarist is perhaps as well known for his string of celebrity ex-girlfriends – Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Kim Kardashian and Renee Zellweger among them – as he is for his music. You can see him in the semi-intimate surrounds of the mid-sized stadiums in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in March from a mere $132 (as of time of writing – the tickets are dynamically priced), but to get seriously up close and personal you might want to lob for the $509 Premium package. No word on whether that includes him asking for your number, though.
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