Australia, you will feel it coming after all: in what's been a chaotic time for fans keen to see Abel 'The Weeknd' Tesfaye Down Under, the musician is finally bringing his After Hours Til Dawn tour this way. Come October 2024, the Canadian singer-songwriter and The Idol star will hit the country for four gigs, playing two in Melbourne, then another two in Sydney.
The details for your diary: The Weeknd will take to the stage at Marvel Stadium in the Victorian capital across Saturday, October 5–Sunday, October 6, then do the same at Accor Stadium in the New South Wales capital on Tuesday, October 22–Wednesday, October 23.
Missing from the rescheduled tour dates is a Brisbane stop, which is no longer happening "due to schedule and logistical constraints", tour promoter Live Nation has advised.
"The Weeknd After Hours Til Dawn Tour for Australia and New Zealand is still in process of being rescheduled," said a statement on the Ticketek website earlier in the year, leaving hope then that the tour might be announced again in the future.
"Whilst we continue to work through the rescheduling process with the artist, tickets for the existing 2023 tour will be cancelled. All purchased tickets will receive a full refund," the message continued.
Revealing the new Aussie shows now, The Weekend said that he feels "a strong pull to perform in Australia before moving on to the next chapter" and that he wanted "to make sure you all know I hadn't forgotten about you".
"When I return now, it will be the right time, and I promise it will be such a special experience. I can't wait to see you all!" his announcement about the new dates continued.
Mike Dean, Chxrry22 and Anna Lunoe will join The Weeknd Down Under. And if you've spotted that there's no New Zealand gigs this time around as well, his stop in Aotearoa is no longer on the schedule, just like Brisbane.
An arena spectacular, The Weeknd's global tour began in 2022, notching up soldout shows far and wide. In the UK, The Weekend saw 160,000 folks head to London Stadium across two nights, smashing the venue's attendance record. And in Milan, he became the first artist to sell out the Ippodromo La Maura for two nights.
Those feats are just the beginning. In Paris, the 'Starboy', 'I Feel It Coming', 'Can't Feel My Face', 'The Hills' and 'Blinding Lights' artist scored Stade de France's biggest sales this year — and in Nice, the 70,000 tickets sold across his two shows are the most in the city's history.
The reason for the whole tour, other than just because, is celebrate The Weeknd's 2020 record After Hours and its 2022 followup Dawn FM. Obviously, he has been playing tracks from 2013's Kiss Land, 2015's Beauty Behind the Madness and 2016's Starboy as well.
Saturday, October 5–Sunday, October 6 — Marvel Stadium, Melbourne Tuesday, October 22–Wednesday, October 23 — Accor Stadium, Sydney
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Australian fans of the music superstar The Weeknd are bloody cheering today, after the one and only motherfuckin’ starboy announced the new Australian dates for his After Hours Til Dawn Tour. We are so BACK!!!
When in April, Abel Tesfaye — famously known as The Weeknd — made the tough decision to cancel his sold-out shows Down Under, Aussie fans were devastated they might have lost the chance to see the record-breaking tour.
But after months of waiting for updates their patience has been rewarded, with the ‘Blinding Lights’ singer sharing a post early this morning that confirmed he would finally be making his long-awaited voyage to Australia for the first time since 2017.
“I feel a strong pull to perform in Australia before moving on to the next chapter and want to make sure you all know I hadn’t forgotten about you,” The Weeknd said in a statement.
“When I return now, it will be the right time, and I promise it will be such a special experience. I can’t wait to see you all!”
The Australian and New Zealand leg of the After Hours Til Dawn tour is incredibly anticipated, with tickets selling faster than hotcakes when they were first announced in August 2023.
It was why fans were absolutely spewin’ when the entire tour was cancelled in for “unforeseen circumstances”.
The news of The Weeknd’s return to Australia was sneakily hinted at in Melbourne the night before the big announcement, with a building in the city being projected with the words “the end is near”.
Which we now realise actually meant “the Week-end is near”. Great work Abel, love the pun.
So when are The Weeknd’s new Aussie tour dates? And how can you get tickets to them?!?! Here’s the deets.
Aussie fans of The Weeknd better be prepared to free up their nights in October, because this year the spooky season has been officially rebranded to the Weeknd season.
Here’s when and where The Weeknd will be touring in Australia:
These four stadium gigs mark The Weeknd’s first ever stadium performances in Australia.
Notably, Brisbane is absent from Tesfaye’s destination list, despite originally being on the After Hours Til Dawn Australian leg.
Currently, tickets for the After Hours Til Dawn Tour have been confirmed to sell in at least three waves of sales starting August 21.
The Past Purchaser Presale will begin on Wednesday, August 21. This will be only available to the folks who got a ticket the first time, only for the show to be postponed and their tickets refunded.
The artist presale will begin Thursday, August 22. And finally, the general ticket sale will open on Monday, August 26.
Details on how to buy tickets for The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn Australian Tour can be found on the artist’s website here.
See you in the Ticketek trenches, folks. Best of luck to you all.
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