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Welcome to the Jungle Play Video
Mr. Brownstone Play Video
Live and Let Die ( Wings cover) Play Video
Attitude ( Misfits cover) Play Video
Bad Obsession Play Video
Double Talkin' Jive Play Video
Civil War Play Video
Patience ( Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Intro) ) Play Video
November Rain ( It's Alright (Intro) ) Play Video
Yesterdays Play Video
Drum Solo ( Matt Sorum ) Play Video
You Could Be Mine Play Video
Slash Guitar Solo Play Video
Love Theme from The Godfather ( Nino Rota cover) ( Godfather Theme ) Play Video
Sweet Child o' Mine ( The One (Intro) ) Play Video
Knockin' on Heaven's Door ( Bob Dylan cover) ( with Only Women Bleed (Intro) ) Play Video
Don't Cry Play Video
Paradise City ( Pink Floyd's Mother Intro ) Play Video

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Mr. Brownstone
Paradise City
Sweet Child o' Mine
Welcome to the Jungle
Bad Obsession
Don't Cry
Double Talkin' Jive
November Rain
Attitude by Misfits
Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan
Live and Let Die by Wings
Love Theme from The Godfather by Nino Rota
You Could Be Mine
Slash Guitar Solo

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Gilby Clarke: rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Duff McKagan: bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "So Fine" and "Attitude"
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Dizzy Reed: keyboards, backing vocals
Izzy Stradlin: rhythm guitar, backing vocals (for 5 concerts in Europe)

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Guns N' Roses: Welcome To The Jungle / It's So Easy / Nightrain / Mr. Brownstone / Paradise City / My Michelle / Sweet Child O' Mine / Reckless Life / You're Crazy / Patience / Used To Love Her / You Ain't The First / Double Talkin' Jive / November Rain / The Garden / Garden Of Eden / Dead Horse / Coma / Yesterdays / So Fine / Estranged / You Could Be Mine / Don't Cry

Cover songs: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan) / Live And Let Die (Paul & Linda McCartney) / Attitude (The Misfits) / Nice Boys (Rose Tattoo) / Dead Flowers (The Rolling Stones) / Honky Tonk Women (The Rolling Stones)

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Michael Monroe: vocals on "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Milton Keynes 1993)
Ronnie Wood: guitar on "Honky Tonk Women" and "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Milton Keynes 1993)
Brian May: guitar on "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Paris 1993)

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The Biggest Rock Show Of 1993

Guns N' Roses ' massive Use Your Illusion tour came to Australia in 1993, with over 200,000 fans showing up to two shows in Sydney and Melbourne.

It might have been a long time ago, but the great and not-so-great memories of those shows are still fresh in so many fans' minds.

Whether you were there or not, relive those two hot nights with this retelling of what went down at some of the biggest rock shows in Australian history.

Michael Chugg (promoter): The gates were over the top of the hill, so you couldn't see the gates. I was on the stage waiting for [the crowd] to come in. I hear the security say 'Gates are open, here they come'.

On top of the hill, about 200 yards wide, are about 40,000 kids all in black t-shirts. They're all screaming down the hill, I yell out on the microphone, 'hey, you in the black t-shirt, stop running'. So of course they've all stopped dead and started laughing. That calmed the whole thing down.

Deb Walkenhorst: I was 19, and this concert was going to be my first really big outdoor event. We caught the bus very early in the morning from Canberra, there was a convoy of buses that went up.

Kylie Hobbs: It was a scorching hot day. The band, of course, true to form, were running late and the crowd got bored and things got crazy. People were lighting bonfires, forming these human pyramids by standing on each others' shoulders – I swear they were three or four people high.

David Sweetman: It was a really hot day. People were lined up for a couple of hundred metres to use the tap at the toilet just to get water. There wasn't enough facilities at Eastern Creek for that many people. I remember people lighting bonfires in between waiting for Skid Row to finish and Axl to come on. It was an hour and a half wait at least for Axl to feel like he was ready to play.

Kylie Hobbs: We saw the chopper come in and finally the band went on and the place just erupted. Axl back then was in his prime and he sounded amazing. There were so many highlights. But, for me, the best had to be the final song, which is my favourite song, 'Paradise City'.

David Sweetman: The gig overall was just phenomenal, especially for a 17 year old. I still remember it these days. I've seen well over 100 bands in my time and it's still up there as one of the best I've ever been to.

Deb Walkenhorst: It was one of those seminal Canberra gigs – even though it wasn't in Canberra – where you either knew someone who went to that gig or you were there yourself. There are three of those gigs in Canberra, Nirvana at ANU, Pearl Jam out at Epic and Guns N' Roses at Eastern Creek.

David Sweetman: I remember trying to get out of there after it finished, it was close to midnight, and the public transport wasn't too good back then. I remember walking to the railway station and there were people in the backs of utes, people climbing onto the sides and the bumper bars of all the public buses.

Michael Chugg: No one got hurt that day. The press had been predicting death, doom and destruction at Eastern Creek with Guns N' Roses. Of course the next day they wrote it up as a boring event because no one got hurt.

Derek Lewis: It was an epic day. Everything about Gunners was epic and this was no different. I got there the night before to get a good parking spot. I woke up at about 7 in the morning, it was already about 30 degrees outside and there were already hundreds of people there. It felt like half of Melbourne was there. It was a really big, festive day. There was a massive build up to it as well.

Melanie Wilson: I was 16 years old and went with a big group of friends from school. We turned up really really early and I think that's where we went wrong on the day. We were actually in B Section – anyone who was there will remember that was the second half – we were right up the back.

Charles King: I suppose, like a lot of people, one of the things that comes up first when you think about the gig is the weather on the day. So extreme, so variable.

Melanie Wilson: We endured extreme heat, dust storms, torrential rain, mudslides…

Charles King: It was 38/39 degrees for 20 minutes, then for the next ten minutes it was stormy, rainy, windy and then back to being hot, then back to raining.

Derek Lewis: The big paddock turned into a big muddy slippery dip – people were sliding everywhere. But we liked it – the temperature had dropped and we felt relief after the hellish hot day we'd just been through.

Charles King: The rain made for some really good mud fights. People were having fights in the mud on the embankments of Calder Park with a couple of people falling right down the slopes.

Charles King: I remember when the wind really picked up , a roadie came out onto the stage and gave a quick emergency evacuation plan in the event that the stage blew away. I think because there were massive Use Your Illusion banners on either side of the stage that would have made perfect sails if the wind really picked up. It was probably quite realistic that the stage could have blown away.

As Axl Rose screamed from the stage you could hear the sound of 1,000 girls hearts breaking. Virginia Trioli

Derek Lewis: I loved seeing Rose Tattoo, they had a really raw sound. Skid Row were fantastic – really punchy and Sebastian had a lot of energy.

Charles King: I can clearly remember Sebastian Bach running on stage to open up their set and running too far and pulling his microphone straight out of its socket. They started, he was singing and then – bang! No more sound.

Derek Lewis: I remember a couple of helicopters came through and the excitement grew and grew. We knew the band had arrived. About half an hour before dusk they came out onto stage and the atmosphere was absolutely electric. Axl owned it, Slash sounded wild. We all had such a good time.

Charles King: Guns N' Roses opened up with 'Welcome To The Jungle' which was really amazing after hours and hours of waiting for them. It was just awesome. 'Paradise City' isn't necessarily my favourite Guns N Roses song, but it was probably the highlight of the gig. The crowd just really went off during that song.

Virginia Trioli (ABC News Breakfast, reviewed the show for The Age ): The crowd was absolutely adoring. As Axl Rose screamed from the stage you could hear the sound of 1,000 girls hearts breaking. It's hard to share a rock hero with so many others.

Sam Willis: I was 17 and it blew my teenage mind. It was unreal. They were at their absolute finest and I don't think I'll ever see anything like it again.

Virginia Trioli: They played all their hits and squeezed out every drop of rock'n'roll emotion possible, from songs whose lyrics veer from the banal to the brutally offensive. Of course we were treated to an old style drum solo, several extended guitar solos and Axl trying to hold onto a single note for as long as he possibly could without his extra tight bike shorts exploding.

Melanie Wilson: I think, by that stage, we were probably expecting so much from the bands that we were a little bit disappointed. Particularly Guns N Roses who really just performed to a formula. I was not that impressed.

Derek Lewis: The only thing about the performance that stuck with me was that there was a distance in the performance somehow. I described it at the time that it was like there was a glass wall between the audience and the band. I don't know looking back now if that was the dramas the band were going through at the time – I'm not sure.

Charles King: I don't think Axl interacted with the crowd very much. I remember he stopped at one stage and gave a speech about how 'you are the power' – that sort of thing.

The last leg of the day was getting home and that was an adventure in itself. I remember walking down Calder Highway with thousands of teenagers in heavy metal t-shirts, all of us fighting over cabs.

Derek Lewis: It was really good to be a part of.

Virginia Trioli: It was an amazing night, if ruined by a rain storm that I'll probably never ever recover from.

Melanie Wilson: I ended up writing a year 12 English assessment on how to survive a Guns N Roses concert – it was that traumatic. At least something good came out of it. But it's an experience I'll always remember.

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Rock History: Guns ‘N’ Roses At Eastern Creek & Calder Park 1993

1993: guns ‘n’ roses get those fires put out. sort of. picture the time – 1993. a simpler time, perhaps. the australian dollar is at 66 us cents. hmas collins – the first australian designed and built submarine – launches and becomes a pre-meme meme. a stonewashed denim-clad, mullet-sporting australia prepares for the imminent invasion of balls-to-the-wall rock: to wit, guns ‘n’ roses, then basically the premier rock act on the planet, deep into their world-shagging use your illusion tour..

This was not only a big show by Australian standards – the Use Your Illusion tour broke all kinds of records with a gruelling run of shows in 194 cities and 27 countries. Whilst Skid Row and Aussie rock legends Rose Tattoo opened the Aussie shows, other opening bands around the world included Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins and Bodycount. Rose Tattoo and a firing Skid Row blazed the stage that night.

“Hey, you in the black T-shirt. Stop fighting or the show won’t go on!”

Promoter Michael Chugg had brought the band out and booked them only the biggest venues – Eastern Creek in Sydney being one of them. It was Guns N Roses’ second time touring Australia, and certainly one of the largest shows ever put on in this fetid land. Over 70,000 people attended this event, and it was not soon forgotten. Rose Tattoo opened, followed by Skid Row, who had caused an apparent near riot according to Channel 7 in a Pitt Street record store the day before (video below).

The concert was by all accounts memorable. “I almost got hit by Sebastian Bach’s beer bottle,” Matt Hell, who attended the Eastern Creek show, told The Void. “By Guns’ N’ Roses I was in the schpecial [sic] front section within section A and was 6 people from Axl. If I’d not dicked around looking at stalls I would have been in that section all day. They played Bodycount’s first album over the PA all afternoon. Gunners were the overblown stadium monster by then, wish I’d seen them on the Appetite tour,” Hell continued. Speaking of the Appetite tour, Melbourne rock writer Rod Whitfield attended both the Appetite For Destruction shows in 1989 (lucky bastard) AND the monster stadium show at Calder Park, Victoria. “That Appetite show is probably the most rip-roaring, gritty, ballsy, f**ked up rock show I’ve ever seen. I don’t think I’ve seen a hungrier band in my life,” Whitfield told The Void.

Speaking of ultimate rock records, Skid Row’s classic 1991 album “Slave To The Grind” – a dangerous, youthful and fun rock masterpiece that will live forever – was the first heavy metal album EVER to debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts. The Void caught up with Sebastian Bach on the 2008 Guns ‘N’ Roses tour to chat about this momentous event, which he got to share with Guns ‘N’ Roses.

“Before that there was a lot of payola going on … back on the first record, people would tell me what the album was going to be next week. ‘We’re going to be going from 18 to 16,” Sebastian recalls one exec telling him. “Then they changed the charts to represent actual SoundScan sales. So we were the first band (when we changed the charts over) [to go #1],” Sebastian continued.

“We were on tour with Guns ‘N’ Roses at the time, and we put out a record and our record debuted at #1. It was the first album to do so since Michael Jackson’s “Bad” in seven or eight years. So we were opening up for Guns that day and I walked into soundcheck and Duff McKagan was doing his bass check,” Sebastian told Christina from The Void. “And I run up and go “Dude, our album came out on Billboard’ and he said ‘what number?’ and I said ‘Number 1.’ He was like ‘Number 1, what the f**k?” Sebastian laughed. “Then NWA came in at number one, Metallica, Use Your Illusion. It was very shocking, very shocking, but it was cool.” Video above.

Fast forward to 1993. It was not an easy road to getting the Gunners to come out and play. During the opening acts’ performances, there was a lot of disruption. It would be unfair not to mention the awful policy in place that night where outside water was banned – and the worst part was that the water on sale ran out early, making it an uncomfortable experience for many concertgoers. A tinderbox situation was in place … and then, the promoter got out there. Michael Chugg addressed the insanely numerous crowd:

Amazingly, this didn’t narrow down the crowd to the single gentleman getting his rumble on. Fires were lit, things were thrown, badly timed chants were … chanted. After a stand-up comedy/head teacher performance by Mr Chugg encouraging fires to be put out or [many expletives deleted] Guns ‘N’ Roses took the stage. After a 40 degree day, the crowd was ready to explode, and possibly implode due to dehydration. Not cool mate! Props to everyone else who stuck it out and got through it. A little remembered fun fact about the show was that Guns ‘N’ Roses’ intro music was the main theme from the score of the Brian DePalma 1983 gangster movie Scarface, which, given the protagonist becomes a monstrous coke fiend and alienates everyone around him and is isolated and paranoid by the end, is … apt. At least as far as we can legally reach with a comparison.

Launching straight into It’s So Easy, the crowd was singing along from word one, and never really stopped until the end, with a rousing Paradise City. An exhausted crowd made their way out of Eastern Creek without a lot of logistical support (the clusterf**k of the situation leaving the Melbourne gig resulted in an ombudsman investigation), with subsequent sensationalist TV segments appearing from the likes of Channel Ten that night about “hundreds of injured fans” from the show. Note: staging this show was incredible, but denying fans water was not cool, by anyone’s standards, and thank Sabbath we never had another show like that. Hopefully a serious lesson was learned that day.

It was the beginning of Eastern Creek as a viable venue for rock shows, and one of a pair of epic shows (shared with Melbourne) which redefined scale in Australia. At least while the dollar stayed down. On a closing note, remember – Appetite For Destruction was the most perfect rock record in history, and will never, ever be beaten. Congratulations to all who witnessed the original Guns on these tours, and got to see these bands at their heady peak, live. This was another great moment in Australian rock history.

Written by: Paul Dawkins & Christina Rowatt, The Void AU.

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The band’s Not in this Lifetime… tour was epic in every sense of the word, lasting from April 2016 to November 2019 and becoming the third-highest grossing concert tour ever. The tour comprised of 175 shows spread across over 40 countries, so you would forgive the members of the band and their team for not being able to pick a few clear stand-out gigs. However, their international booking agent Rod MacSween selected the performance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in February 2017 as one of the highlights from the entire year, which maybe shouldn’t be a surprise given that it is a memorable venue in a memorable city.

As is customary for Guns N’ Roses, the venue was filled to capacity as 73,144 headed to the MCG. Angus Young of the legendary Australian band AC/DC joined the band on stage in a cameo that thrilled the crowd. That demand for tickets saw that night alone gross just short of $9 million – not bad for a night’s work. The Not in this Lifetime… tour was particularly notable for reuniting a trio of members from the band’s classic line-up: vocalist Axl Rose, guitarist Slash, and bassist Duff McKagan.

That trio hadn’t performed together at an Australian venue since the band’s 1993 Use Your Illusion tour, a tour which featured dates in Sydney and Melbourne. Use Your Illusion was notorious for its controversial side, characterized by delayed concert starts, and the inciting of riots in the crowds. While Australia wasn’t treated to the worst of the tour’s controversy, those gigs might not be remembered as fondly as the smoother operation of Not in this Lifetime…. Guns N’ Roses most recent concert tour is their appropriately named Guns N’ Roses 2020 Tour, although none of its planned dates venture as far as Australia. While South America and Europe are both expected to witness the band in action as the tour extends into 2021, Australia remains overlooked. However, the scale of Guns N’ Roses’ popularity means that you’re never too far away from ways to enjoy the band, even if they don’t tour near your city.

That’s because Guns N’ Roses have spawned a range of different products and media based on their career and discography. There are multiple Guns N’ Roses-inspired releases in the physical gaming genre, from playing cards emblazoned with their logo to jigsaw puzzles based on classic album covers. The band has also influenced the digital side of gaming, with the Guns N’ Roses Video Slots hosted by NetBet UK utilizing some of their most famous hits as the soundtrack to the reel-based action. The reels’ symbols also pay tribute to the classic Guns N’ Roses line-up that thrilled fans at the MCG.

There has been plenty of speculation about a potential movie inspired by Guns N’ Roses, which wouldn’t be short of drama. While that hasn’t come to fruition, fans still have Guns N’ Roses: The Story to fall back on, a documentary that provides insight into life on and off stage. Further depth can be found in Mick Wall’s book, Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N’ Roses. Wall’s work explores the stories behind the band’s massive success and gives informed descriptions of some of their controversies.

If Guns N’ Roses don’t come back to Australia, fans will at least have the memories of the Melbourne visit and plenty of media inspired by the band that they can enjoy. Oh, and of course they have Guns N’ Roses’ stellar discography. Given the success of Guns N’ Roses relatively recent stop-off in Melbourne, it’s reasonable to expect that the group which produced hits like ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and ‘Sweet Child o’ Mine’ will return to these shores.

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Guns N’ Roses Are Bringing Stadium Rock Back to Australia

Guns n’ roses are returning to australia this november for their first local tour in five years, ensuring stadium rock in back on the menu., brittany jenke, brittany jenke's most recent stories.

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It’s been a long time coming, but just six months out from one of the year’s biggest concert tours, it’s clear that Guns N’ Roses are well and truly bringing stadium rock back to Australia.

Set to kick off in the middle of November, Guns N’ Roses’ forthcoming tour of the country has been in the works for some time. Having last visited the country as part of their ‘Not in This Lifetime…’ tour back in 2017 (which is itself the third highest-grossing concert tour of all time), it’s been a while since the iconic rockers have last showed Aussie fans what it is that makes them so great.

Selling over 350,000 tickets during their last local tour, guitarist Slash promised fans that Guns N’ Roses would return to Australia once again, though no details were specified at the time. Since the tour, the band have been rumoured to be recording a new album , with Slash confirming that new material was being written during a 2019 interview.

Now, the group are on track to ensure that their long-awaited return is a welcome one, with their forthcoming tour set to ensure that not only is stadium rock back on Aussie shores but that it’s here to stay.

Kicking off with a show at Perth’s Optus Stadium on Friday November 18th, the upcoming tour will see the group visit Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast, Sydney’s Accor Stadium Australia, and Adelaide Oval, before concluding the Australian tour at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The group will also travel across the Tasman to New Zealand landing at Sky Stadium in Wellington on December 8 and then Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday December 10.

Easily set to be one of the biggest musical events on the Australian calendar this year, the forthcoming tour also takes place just a few months before the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic concerts in local history, Guns N’ Roses’ 1993 performance at Melbourne’s Calder Park.

Equally described as being both “notorious” and “the wildest rock gig Australia has seen” , the performance took place at the height of Guns N’ Roses’ fame as one of the biggest bands in the world. Only their second visit to the country, the show found itself becoming somewhat due to reasons beyond the band’s control. Wild weather, overbearing security, high prices, and poor infrastructure meant that the 75,000 fans in attendance at the Victorian speedway were bound to remember those gigs, but not necessarily for the best reasons.

However, close to three decades on, it’s remembered as one of the most famous moments in Australian concert history, with almost everyone in attendance that day happily stating that despite the poor organisation on the day, the band’s blistering performance meant that they wouldn’t trade it for the world .

30 years on though, organisation of gigs is far better, and it’s been quite a while since Guns N’ Roses’ shows have been remembered for little more than the stellar live performance that they put on. Of course, if the group’s 2017 trek to Australia is anything to go by, their forthcoming visit is set to see one of the group’s most enduring and iconic bands still performing at the peak of their powers.

Sure, it might be a few years since they last released an album, but if you need any proof that Guns N’ Roses are still the masters of stadium rock that they always have been, one need only head along to their Aussie tour this November.

Guns N’ Roses Australian Tour 2022

Friday, November 18th, 2022 (Previously Wednesday, November 24th, 2021) Optus Stadium, Perth, WA

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022 (Previously Tuesday, November, 16th, 2021) Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, QLD

Thursday, November 24th, 2022 (Previously Saturday, November 6th, 2021) Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast, QLD

Sunday, November 27th, 2022 (Previously Sunday, November 14th, 2021) Stadium Australia, Sydney, NSW (Formerly ANZ Stadium)

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 (Previously Tuesday, November 9th, 2021) Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA

Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 (Previously Thursday, November 11th, 2021) Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, VIC

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GUNS N' ROSES, ZZ TOP, ROSE TATTOO: Australian Tour Officially Confirmed

McManus Entertainment has announced the return to Australia of one of the world's greatest rock bands, GUNS N' ROSES , in March. Joining GUNS N' ROSES will be special guests ZZ TOP and Aussie rockers ROSE TATTOO .

Promoter Andrew McManus says: "I can't wait for these shows next March. Axl Rose is a legend and I can't wait to see GUNS N' ROSES play to their legion of Aussie fans again. I'm so proud to be bringing them back to Australia and am looking forward to a great tour with fellow rockers ZZ TOP and ROSE TATTOO ."

Hard rockers GUNS N' ROSES were last in Australia in 2010. GUNS N' ROSES are Axl Rose , DJ Ashba (guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboards), Tommy Stinson (bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (guitar), Chris Pitman (keyboards) and Frank Ferrrer (drums).

GUNS N' ROSES ' special guests on their Australian tour are the legendary Texan trio ZZ TOP . ZZ TOP 's image has been as unchanging and memorable as their music. ZZ TOP have been together for more than 40 years and were inducted by Keith Richards into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2004. The band's iconography — beards, cars, girls and that magic keychain — transcend all bounds of geography and language. They've been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms and are true rock icons. Billy F Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists while Dusty Hill on bass and Frank Beard on drums (ironically the only member without a beard) provide the ultimate rhythm section support.

ROSE TATTOO join GUNS N' ROSES and ZZ TOP on the tour. The lineup features lead vocalist Angry Anderson , Dai Pritchard , Paul DeMarco , Geordie Leach and Randall Waller . ROSE TATTOO is touted as the best bar-room-blues-based rock band in the world and one of the most revered bands of all time. Inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame in 2006, their hits include "Bad Boy For Love" , "Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw" , "Nice Boys" , "We Can't Be Beaten" and "Scarred For Life" .

Tickets go on sale through various outlets on Friday, January 25 at 9 a.m.

The dates are as follows:

March 09 - Perth, WA, Australia - Perth Arena March 12 - Sydney, NSW, Australia - Allphones Arena March 13 - Newcastle, NSW, Australia - Hunter Stadium March 17 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia - Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 20 - Brisbane, QLD, Australia - Brisbane Entertainment Centre

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Guns N’ Roses Duff McKagan announces 2024 UK and European solo tour

The shows include a slot at London’s Islington Assembly Hall

Duff McKagan from Guns N' Roses performs in 2023

Duff McKagan has announced a series of UK and European tour dates, set to kick off later this year. Find a list of new dates and ticket details below.

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Announced today (April 15), the new run of tour dates come following the Guns N’ Roses bassist dropping his latest studio album ‘Lighthouse’ towards the end of last year.

The LP marked his third album as a solo artist, following on from 1993’s debut ‘Believe In Me’ and 2019’s ‘Tenderness’. It also starred guest appearances including Iggy Pop , Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, and longtime Guns N’ Roses bandmate Slash .

Now, the bassist, singer and songwriter has confirmed that he will be headed across the pond for some tour dates in the UK, Ireland and Europe.

The dates will kick off on September 30 with an opening night at the Dublin Academy in Ireland and will continue throughout October – commencing with a show at Oran Mor in Glasgow on the 2nd.

Other UK dates take place across the first week of the month and include a slot at the Academy 2 venue in Manchester, followed by a slot at the Islington Assembly Hall in London on October 3 and 5 respectively.

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The news of the tour dates also comes shortly after McKagan shared the expanded edition of ‘Lighthouse’ – featuring eight additional tracks along with three exclusive live performance videos filmed last December at Easy Street Records in Seattle. The new recordings included a stripped-down acoustic rendition of the album standout, ‘I Just Don’t Know’. Check it out below.

Around the time of the album release, McKagan shared his thoughts on the use of AI in songwriting , revealing that he has no plans to let the technology “affect my creativity”.

Discussing how his personal life and long-running interest in history acted as inspiration for the upcoming LP during an In Conversation with Dan Jones, the musician and songwriter also shared his thoughts on the increasing use of AI, and confirmed he has no plans to be experimenting with the technology any time soon.

“You’re gonna always have guys like me who [have] just got their middle finger up. They’re gonna just keep creating and not even pay attention to it, really,” he began. “I don’t pay attention to it. I’m not worried about it. It’s not gonna affect my creativity.”

He continued, saying he instead opts to draw inspiration from the support he has from his family. “I’ve got a really good situation at home… having that kind of ease at home and that support has really done wonders for me.

“That tenderness and that passion and that sense of roundedness and love and harmony, allied with that deep sort of punk rock sensibility [has] created this incredible, unique sound on ‘Lighthouse’.”

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