Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour Nudging 1M Tickets

Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Street Tour is on goal to grow to be the biggest live performance tour of all time in Australia and New Zealand.

This is right after additional dates were added past Friday following “overwhelming demand from customers.”

These ended up for the 30,000-seat McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle on January 8, the 30,000-seat AAMI Park, Melbourne on January 14, and Sydney’s 45,000-seat Allianz Stadium on January 17.

By the close of this tour, Sir Elton will have played 236 live shows in Australia – the third most for any country exterior the U.K. and U.S. on this operate.

“If we sell each and every ticket, we will be just shy of a million around all the Farewell YBR reveals,” promoter Michael Chugg explained to TMN on Friday.

When Chugg Entertainment, Frontier Touring and AEG Provides declared the five sudden encore shows on July 20, in addition to the two postponed Auckland exhibits from 2020, TMN noted that the new tally for the tour in Australia and New Zealand was 875,000.

The to start with leg experienced shifted 705,000 tix, in accordance to Frontier, from 34 Australian and six Kiwi dates more than three months. The new displays additional a additional 170,000.

This placed the Farewell Yellow Brick Highway Tour as the 3rd biggest concert tour at any time.

950,000 tix were being shifted by Ed Sheeran in 2018 and 900,000 by Dire Straits in 1986. But previous Friday’s a few additions depict a further more 105, 500 tickets in the Australian sector.

That unofficially pushes the Farewell Yellow Brick Highway Tour to the best with 980,500 tix.

A clearer photograph will arise when all new tickets go on sale on Monday.

The Newcastle reveals will be kinds to look at, symbolizing the very first time he’s played the town in the 18 tours he’s accomplished given that the early 1970s.

It is the 1st time the McDonald Jones Stadium will be utilized by a live performance for 32 a long time.

The venue options to draw much more entertainment and sports activities as part of triggering far more tourist dollars to the location, in a current partnership amongst Metropolis of Newcastle and stadium operator Venues NSW.

In accordance to Chugg, 25,000 tickets in the town went in pre-sales.

When John read about the reaction, he stated, “Well, let us do a different a person.”

Right after the 2nd Newcastle present was announced, Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes posted on Facebook: “This announcement is testomony to the advantages of attracting these massive functions to Newcastle and their acceptance among Newcastle inhabitants and readers to the city.”

Just what excess readers the John displays bring to the city will be analysed closely.

Newcastle will have to function really hard at building a buzz and including to the tourist enchantment.

Pictured: Australian concert promoter Michael Chugg

In 2017 when the Rocket Gentleman performed to 15,000 at the BB Print Stadium in Mackay, Queensland, 5,000 were being from outdoors the location – and 200 from New Zealand, Spain, United States, Denmark, Israel, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

They brought with them $3 million to spend.

Mackay council and corporations enticed the people to shell out and keep extended with a collection of Elton-themed situations, including the I’m Nevertheless Standing road get together the early morning just after, and a yellow brick highway and mural in a CBD laneway.

Cafes, bars and places to eat served John doughnuts and Rocket Gentleman beverages, and employees and road entertainers dressed up as people from his tracks.

There ended up competitions for visitors to take a look at nearby attractions, with the intention they’d return.

In 2012, a John display to 35,000 at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, pumped NZ$14.9 million (AU$13.4 million) into the neighborhood economic climate.

The largest proportion of the visitors’ money was put in on retail procuring (31%), foodstuff and beverage (27%) and lodging (23%), petrol (8%), other expenditures (4%), vacation (4%), tourist functions (3%) and leisure (2%).