BON JOVI Adds London O2 Arena Dates With KID ROCK

February 8, 2010, 14 years ago

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Billboard.com has issued the following report from by Andre Paine:

BON JOVI has added two more dates to its June 2010 residency at the London O2 Arena.

KID ROCK has signed up as support act for the additional June 25th and June 26th shows at the venue. The AEG Live-promoted residency currently runs to 13 dates between June 7th and June 26th.

"London is staging one of the great rock 'n' roll shows, night after night this summer," said AEG Live president of international touring Rob Hallett, promoter for the residency, in a statement. "There are very few bands in the world that can sell out this many dates at one venue and we haven't stopped yet. As a promoter, you listen to the fans and if the demand is there, you can do something as big of this. We've been listening and it's a deafening roar out there."

The venue has a 23,000 capacity although many rock and pop shows are configured at around 17,000.

Billboard has issued the following report from Gary Graff:

Bon Jovi is planning to dig deep into it's catalog and maybe even play some albums in their entirety for the group's upcoming Circle World Tour, which kicks off Feburary 11th in Honolulu.

With an itinerary of 135 shows in 30 countries, guitarist Richie Sambora told Billboard.com during a conference call with reporters that "to keep ourselves interested and happy we're going to be picking songs from different records and kind of intersect them into the set as time goes on... We try to give the crowd the songs they want to hear, obviously. That's very important 'cause the fans came to hear those songs. We love to play them, so it's not a big deal. But we're gonna go back and play stuff that we haven't played in 20 years... stuff off the first album, stuff off the second album that we haven't played in God knows how long. So it's gonna be a lot of fun."

The guitarist added that Bon Jovi will particularly take advantage of multi-night stands at the new Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (five) and the O2 Arena in London (15) to stage a few special events.

"We might do Slippery When Wet in its entirety, or Lost Highway in its entirety," he said. "I'm sure we'll do The Circle in its entirety a few times on this tour, 'cause we're really proud of this record. We're going to be doing a lot of different stuff."

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