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Rod Stewart Announces 2019 UK Tour In Support Of New Album Blood Red Roses
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Rod Stewart channels the 70’s during his concert at Papp Lazlo Budapest Sports Arena in Hungary Jan. 29.
In support of the release of his 30th studio album Blood Red Roses, which will be released on Sept. 28, Rod Stewart will hit the road in 2019 with a UK tour.
The “Rod Stewart Live In Concert” tour will kick off in Southampton, May 31, and continue to visit football stadiums and outdoor venues across England and Scotland.
Dates include St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton (May 31), the York Racecourse (June 1), Milton Keynes Stadium (June 4), Portman Road Stadium, Ipswich (June 7), Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton (June 8), AECC Aberdeen (June 12), and University of Bolton Stadium (June 14).
Live Nation’s Cuffe and Taylor are promoting the fully seated UK tour. Company director Peter Taylor said: “We are delighted to be announcing ‘Rod Stewart Live In Concert’. We have presented numerous shows with him over the past five years and this will be our second full tour with him.
“As his fans know, Rod presents the most amazing shows. He continues to play to huge audiences across the globe and it is an absolute pleasure to once again be taking him across the UK once to reach tens of thousands of people who will have the most incredible night watching him perform live.”
Stewart sold more than 200 million records throughout his career. His 30th, Blood Red Roses, drops Sept. 28 on Republic Records. Aside from songs from his new joint, fans will of course be treated to many classics.
Tickets go on sale Sept. 21 via Ticketmaster. Pre-sale tickets go on sale Sept. 19, and can be accessed by pre-ordering Rod’s new album ‘Blood Red Roses’ from www.hmv.com.
It’s Rod Stewart’s first UK tour in three years. The iconic singer just completed a joint trek with Cyndi Lauper in a reprise of their 2017 summer tour, which grossed $11.4 million, according to Pollstar’s box office reports.
Now, he’s in the middle of touring the States solo, which he’ll be doing until the end of the year, when he’ll be closing with six back-to-back dates at The Colosseum At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 21-Dec. 2.
Stewart ended 2017 ranked No. 79 on Pollstar’s Top 200 North American Tours of 2017 based on overall boxoffice revenue totaling $18.7 million from 245,664 total tickets.
The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, ASCAP Founders Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, Grammy Living Legend, and Knight is on track to surpass those totals in 2018. He has already earned $15.9 million at the boxoffice this year from 154,684 sold tickets and just recently took the No. 32 ranking on Pollstar’s Mid Year Top 100 North American Tours.