Guns N' Roses to Reunite for Coachella, Possible stadium tour (Billboard)

[Spirit]

Guns N' Roses to Reunite for Coachella, Possible Stadium Tour: Sources

Guns N? Roses, with founding members Axl Rose and Slash, will headline the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., set for April 15-17 and April 22-24, according to multiple sources. The band is also tapped to be one of the first acts to play the new Las Vegas Arena, which is set to open April 6 with The Killers and Wayne Newton. Additionally, the reunited band is negotiating with promoters to play as many as 25 football stadiums in North America in the summer of 2016. The band is said to be asking as much as $3 million per show, with tickets topping out in the $250-$275 range.

The last show Axl Rose and Slash played together was on July 17, 1993 at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. The band's last tour, which only included Axl Rose from the original lineup, took place primarily in South America and The Joint in Las Vegas, grossing $15.2 million.

The band's first album, Appetite for Destruction, is the biggest-selling debut in U.S. history, with 18 million sold. It spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and launched the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single "Sweet Child O' Mine." They have sold 44.5 million albums total in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Representatives for the band, as well as Coachella producer Paul Tollett and agent Ken Fermaglich at United Talent Agency, could not be reached for comment. Executives at AEG, which will operate the new Vegas arena, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Billboard's confirmation comes on the heels of two rumor-inducing hints dropped over the past week, the first a cryptic update to the Guns N' Roses website and the second during, of all things, screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where footage of a concert crowd was shown with GN'R music overdubbed. Though longtime fans may be understandably wary after the decade-plus wait for Chinese Democracy, which became a totem of sorts to frontman Axl Rose's sometimes unpredictable behavior, the reunion appears to be fully in gear.

Coachella has a pedigree for coaxing much-loved acts out of retirement, or being the linchpin to plans that had already been simmering. The fest has previously hosted the reunions of Rage Against The Machine in 2007, My Bloody Valentine in 2009, Pulp in 2012 and Outkast in 2014 -- not to mention Tupac's posthumous return to the stage in 2012. Guns N' Roses will arrive a year after two other legendary acts, AC/DC and Steely Dan, headlined the 2015 edition.





Source:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6828129/guns-n-roses-reunion-coachella-stadium-las-vegas

[COMAMOTIVE]

And so it begins

[Spirit]

So... 25 football stadiums in North America. They're going big.

[sofine11]

They're calling this a "confirmation". Dope!!

[draguns]

Looks like this will be an awesome summer! If this is true, this is a great way to turn 40 next summer.

[Spirit]

They're calling this a "confirmation". Dope!!

I would think Billboard considers every source they've got. Quite telling they're calling it a "confirmation" yes.

It should be noted as seen in the article, the source is not from the band or tour promoter.

[Ginger King]

Where's the "no official announcement" brigade at?  Isn't this just another unconfirmed and unsubstantiated rumor? 

Also, holy shit!

[Princess Leia]

They're calling this a "confirmation". Dope!!

Well they call people for comment. And nobody wants to say a word... yet    

[D-GenerationX]

Stadiums??

Holy shit, indeed.

[D-GenerationX]

$275?  That's rough.

I'd pay it in a heartbeat, but I also like stadium shows.  Yet I also know there are other people that hate being so far away and whatnot.

[Spirit]

$275?  That's rough.

I'd pay it in a heartbeat, but I also like stadium shows.  Yet I also know there are other people that hate being so far away and whatnot.

That's the most expensive tickets right? There will probably be cheaper ones as well.

But that's Rolling Stones prices, isn't it?

[D-GenerationX]

If they come here, I'm not fucking around with the internet.

I will drive to the venue for tickets.  Not having what happened to Springsteen fans happen to me.

[Mysteron]

Good old Billboard

It looks like we are in for a fun year  

[D-GenerationX]

$275?  That's rough.

I'd pay it in a heartbeat, but I also like stadium shows.  Yet I also know there are other people that hate being so far away and whatnot.

That's the most expensive tickets right? There will probably be cheaper ones as well.

But that's Rolling Stones prices, isn't it?

Stones have been playing arenas instead of stadiums here and charging more like $500-600.

[sofine11]

$275?  That's rough.

I'd pay it in a heartbeat, but I also like stadium shows.  Yet I also know there are other people that hate being so far away and whatnot.

That's top tier, not all seats will be that much I'm sure. That said, it will be the sweetest $275 I drop in my life.  

[OscarAxl22]

Anyone who wants to believe this isn't happening is kidding themselves.

 

[Spirit]

$275?  That's rough.

I'd pay it in a heartbeat, but I also like stadium shows.  Yet I also know there are other people that hate being so far away and whatnot.

That's the most expensive tickets right? There will probably be cheaper ones as well.

But that's Rolling Stones prices, isn't it?

Stones have been playing arenas instead of stadiums here and charging more like $500-600.

Yeah, I recalled that after I posted. They're in a league of their own.  

[D-GenerationX]

Anyone who wants to believe this isn't happening is kidding themselves.

Yeah, time to give up that ghost.

[Spirit]

If there's no fire to all this smoke...

[Princess Leia]

If they come here, I'm not fucking around with the internet.

I will drive to the venue for tickets.  Not having what happened to Springsteen fans happen to me.

If you?re a Nightrain memner I don?t think you need to go to the stadium to buy tickets