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Macklemore announces 2nd Sydney show due to exceptional demand for Australia & New Zealand May 2024 tour
15 Nov 2023Due to huge ticket demand in the Telstra Plus presale, MG Live and Frontier Touring are pumped to announce a second Sydney show for multi-platinum & GRAMMY award-winning artist, Macklemore on his Australia and New Zealand headline tour for May 2024. The second Sydney show will take place at the Hordern Pavilion on Sunday 12 May.
Frontier Member presale for all shows kicks off today Wednesday 15 November from 12noon local, before general public tickets go on sale on Friday 17 November from 10:00am local. Tickets via frontiertouring.com/macklemore.
The headline tour starts in New Zealand for a show at Wellington’s TSB Arena on Wednesday 8 May and Auckland’s Spark Arena on Thursday 9 May. The singer-songwriter will then perform five headline shows in Australia including Hordern Pavilion, Sydney on Saturday 11 May and Sunday 12 May (new show), Melbourne’s John Cain Arena on Wednesday 15 May, Brisbane’s Riverstage on Friday 17 May before rounding out his headline tour with a final show at Perth’s HBF Stadium on Monday 20 May.
Macklemore will also perform at the 2024 edition of BASSINTHEGRASS Music Festival in Darwin on Saturday 18 May. Tickets on sale now: bassinthegrass.com.au
With a total of 13.2 billion combined streams to date, worldwide accolades and critical acclaim, Macklemore is one of the most successful independent artists of the 21st century.
Releasing his third solo studio album BEN (out now via Warner Music Australia, here) in 2023, the project includes the single ‘CHANT’ featuring Australia’s very own Tones And I, ‘NO BAD DAYS’ feat. Collett, ‘HEROES’ feat. DJ Premier & ‘MANIAC’ feat. Windser with the rapper, singer & songwriter proving his passion for music and exceptional lyricism once more with critical acclaim and admiration from fans.
Collectively Macklemore’s music videos have been viewed over 5 billion times and he is one of only two rappers to have RIAA (USA) Diamond-certified singles, for ‘Thrift Shop’ and 'Can't Hold Us'. Catalogue hits include ‘Glorious’ (featuring Skylar Grey), ‘Good Old Days’ (featuring Kesha), ‘Can’t Hold Us’, ‘Same Love’, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, and ‘Downtown’.
Consistently touring the BEN project globally throughout 2023, alongside the hits the fans known and love, Macklemore’s return to Australia will see him perform tracks from the album for the very first time. Don’t miss Macklemore live in 2024!