John Mayer Returns To Tour New Zealand This April

John Mayer Returns To Tour New Zealand This April

Chugg Entertainment today confirmed two John Mayer concerts for New Zealand this April, playing Wellington and Auckland.

Bringing, in song, his latest on love, heartbreak and life lessons, it´s a wiser, more enlightened Mayer who will head to the land of the long white cloud, bringing the 70's and 80's California rock/pop sound of his new album, Battle Studies, for the tour of the same name.

Mayer plays Wellington´s TSB Bank Arena on Tuesday April 27 and Auckland´s Vector Arena on Wednesday April 28.

Both concerts will be configured with Gold and Silver price categories and tickets go on general sale Friday February 19.

The TSB Bank Arena tickets will be on sale from www.ticketek.co.nz and the Vector Arena tickets from www.ticketmaster.co.nz ......

A special Visa Entertainment pre-sale will start at 9am on Monday February 15 and run until 5pm Wednesday February 17. Pre-sale ticket details are available at www.visaentertainment.co.nz ......

Mayer plays New Zealand first before heading to Australia.

Four studio albums, seven Grammy Awards and nearly 13 million album sales in just nine years, the now 32-year-old isn´t just getting older - a worry he cast adrift with the 2006 release of his here-I-am, blown-open, mega-success, Continuum - he´s getting better.

Since his 2001 debut, Room For Squares, and the world-wide radio group hug given to its hit, Your Body Is A Wonderland, as well as the Grammy it brought; to 2003´s Heavier Things and two more Grammys; to his first co-producing turn with Steve Jordan on the four-time Grammy Award winning, hit-harnessed, Continuum, which included Waiting On The World To Change, I Don´t Trust Myself (With Loving You) and Gravity; to his latest and fourth studio album, his second time producing with Jordan, the November 2009 released, Battle Studies; Mayer´s kind of gravity heads only one way. Up.

He calls Battle Studies a "from-the-gut" confessional and, if it can be said of his album, it is definitely true of his concerts. They´re intimate with the same "efficiency of simplicity" he says marks his new record.

There´s no assembly-line dancers or manufactured costume changes; it is Mayer´s sweet voice and what´s been called his "guitar ninja-dom" that style-up the room-and both these he lets rip.

Whether it´s his heart on his sleeve or the watch on his wrist - both are obsessions - Mayer wears them proudly.

Fans keep time.

Mayer makes a practical symphony of the screaming upon screaming upon screaming which is universally in-chorus at all his live shows. He speaks with his audience, tells them things about himself, lets them know him.

Fans talk of an `afterglow´ having seen him live and they bathe in it for days.

"John makes them feel like he´s singing for just them, to just them, it´s very personal," says promoter, Chairman of Chugg Entertainment, Michael Chugg.

Synchronise your watches people, Mayer is here in April.

Tickets on general sale Friday February 19. Pre-sale details available at www.visaentertainment.co.nz

JOHN MAYER TOUR DATES - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Tuesday 27 April TSB Bank Arena, Wellington Ticketek: www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 TICKETEK

Wednesday 28 April Vector Arena, Auckland Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.co.nz or 09 970 9700

Friday 30 April Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849 Sunday 2 May Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849

Tuesday 4 May WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849 Friday 7 May Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849

Saturday 8 May Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com.au or 1300 883 622

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