"Stars align" for Six60 stadium concert at McLean Park
After years of discussion, the stars have aligned and McLean Park will host its first stadium concert next year with none other than Six60.
The show, on April 2 in Napier, is one of six stadium concerts across Aotearoa, and marks the first time an artist has embarked on a 100 per cent stadium tour throughout the country. Earlier this year, the band played six shows throughout New Zealand including two stadium shows and four green fields, selling over 175,000 tickets.
The five-piece says they are "absolutely stoked" to be bringing SIX60 SATURDAYS to stadiums in 2022.
"For us, we constantly want to better ourselves and raise the bar on what we have already done. To be playing six stadium shows on this tour is huge. It not only sets the bar for ourselves, but we see it as a challenge to international acts too.
"There’s so much more to a New Zealand tour than just playing one or two cities. Kiwi’s support live music better than anywhere else in the world. We love playing at home and we’d love to see more international acts play shows of this scale all around the motu."
Napier City Council Events Manager Kevin Murphy says he has been working on getting talent to perform at the park for about three years.
"I've been talking to other promoters but Six60 has been the one that came up a while ago and the stars aligned and the stadium tour was able to be run."
"Whenever you do anything for the first time there's always going to be things you learn and a few challenges I expect but it's just such a good thing for the park to be able to do something that's not just cricket and rugby and we've been aiming to do something like this for a long time."
He hopes it will be the first of many concerts to be held at the park.
"We can't wait to be able to help deliver it and be available for future opportunities with other promoters."
Murphy expects an "awesome response".
"It's going to be one of the few shows that will actually happen over summer and being the first one of this size at McLean Park I've had heaps of emails this morning already just from people wanting to know about ticket sales and all that sort of thing."
Last Friday saw the 10 Year Anniversary release of Six60’s debut (Gold) album. In that time, they have gone from flatties at 660 Castle Street, playing house parties for their mates to household names selling out stadiums throughout NZ.
The Gold album alone has spent a combined total of four and a half years in the NZ Top 40 and is 9x Platinum. Producing anthems such as ‘Don’t Forget Your Roots’, ‘Rise Up’, and ‘Forever’, the singles on the album make up a whopping 14x certified platinum.
Fans can expect a special celebra2on of this album at Six60 SATURDAY’S 2022, with the classic sing along songs they have known for years played alongside brand new music from New Zealand’s
biggest band.
2021 has already been a monster of a year for Six60. Their latest single Pepeha (cert. Gold), their first bi-lingual song debuted at #1 on the NZ Singles chart and has held strong at the top since release. Earlier in the year, they headlined the biggest tour in the world playing to a record-breaking 175,000 fans across NZ on their Six60 SATURDAYS tour including the first-ever concert at Eden Park.
Their most recent album Six60 (3) has been certified 5x Platinum and has spent over 80 weeks as the #1 NZ album. The band are currently in the USA having just played two headline shows in LA and
New York and recording a new album, before crisscrossing their way across to Europe playing their first international shows since 2019.
With rumours of a new album floating around Six60 SATURDAYS 2022 is set to be one that fans will never forget.
Six60 SATURDAYS 2022 tour dates:
Limited pre-sale tickets go on sale on Friday, October 29 from 12pm-3pm NZDT (or until allocation is exhausted) via the Sidehustle app. General public tickets go on sale Monday, November 8 at 12pm (NZDT) from ticketek.co.nz
- Rotorua: Saturday, March 5 - Rotorua International Stadium
- Dunedin: Saturday, March 12 - Forsyth Barr Stadium
- Christchurch: Saturday, March 19 - Orangetheory Stadium
- Wellington: Saturday, March 26 - Sky Stadium
- Napier: Saturday, April 2 - McLean Park
- Auckland: Saturday, April 9 - Eden Park
