Billy Idol with Cheap Trick | Australia 2015
Rock icon BILLY IDOL is returning to Australia and New Zealand for his first concert tour of Australia since 2002.
Billy Idol’s tour announcement coincides with a flurry of new Idol projects that have fans around the globe in a heightened state of excitement!
Idol’s long-awaited and riveting self-written autobiography Dancing With Myself was released worldwide on October 7 via Touchstone/Simon and Schuster and his first album of new material since 2005, Kings & Queens of the Underground, is out on October 17 on BFI Records/Kobalt Label Services.
Written by Idol himself, in his inimitable, searingly honest voice, Dancing With Myself offers an all-access pass to Billy Idol’s journey to fame.
His tale is an extraordinary one, from a transient childhood divided between the United States and England, to Idol’s time as a seminal member of the 1970s London punk scene fronting the band Generation X, to his meteoric rise to stardom, propelled by a distinctive sound combining punk’s energy and ethos with a danceable, driving beat.
Beyond adding his uniquely qualified perspective to the story of the evolution of rock, Idol is a brash, lively chronicler of his own career. Delivered with the same in-your-face attitude and fire his fans have embraced for decades, Dancing With Myself offers eye-opening anecdotes full of drugs, sex, and rock ‘n’ roll that only Billy Idol can tell.
Idol’s new album Kings & Queens Of The Underground was primarily produced by Trevor Horn, with Greg Kurstin also contributing as producer to two songs, including the anthemic lead single, ‘Can’t Break Me Down’.
Special guests are Cheap Trick.
Tour Dates
| MARCH 14 (SAT) | PERTH, WA | AN EVENING ON THE GREEN KINGS PARK & BOTANIC GARDENS |
| MARCH 18 (WED) | WOLLONGONG, NSW | WIN ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE |
| MARCH 19 (THU) | SYDNEY, NSW | QANTAS CREDIT UNION ARENA |
| MARCH 21 (SAT) | YARRA VALLEY, VIC | A DAY ON THE GREEN ROCHFORD WINES |
| MARCH 22 (SUN) | FLEURIEU PENINSULA, SA | A DAY ON THE GREEN LECONFIELD WINES |
| MARCH 24 (TUE) | MELBOURNE, VIC | MARGARET COURT ARENA |
| MARCH 28 (SAT) | HUNTER VALLEY, NSW | A DAY ON THE GREEN BIMBADGEN WINERY |
| MARCH 29 (SUN) | MT COTTON, QLD | A DAY ON THE GREEN SIRROMET WINES |
