DEF LEPPARD ANNOUNCE MASSIVE SUMMER TOUR DATES WITH STYX AND TESLA
Def Leppard returns to the road this summer for an extensive North American tour. The Live Nation-promoted tour hitting nearly 50 cities across the U.S. and Canada will begin on June 23rd in Tampa, Fla. at Midflorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. Joining Def Leppard on their massive summer outing are rockers Styx and Tesla. Please see full tour routing below. Citi® cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Wednesday, February 18th at 12 p.m. local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit citiprivatepass.com General tickets for the tour go on sale starting Friday, February 20th at 10 a.m. on livenation.com.
Def Leppard’s influential career includes numerous hit singles and ground-breaking multi-platinum albums—including two of the best-selling albums of all time, Pyromania and Hysteria, capturing the group’s legendary tracks, bringing together classic Leppard hits such as Rock of Ages, Pour Some Sugar on Me and Foolin. The upcoming tour follows on the heels of the band’s massive 2014 co-headlining tour with KISS, last summer.
Def Leppard 2015 tour dates with Styx and Tesla:
June 23 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 25 West Palm Beach, FL Coral Sky Amphitheatre
June 27 Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
June 28 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood (on sale Feb. 21)
June 30 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion (on sale Feb. 21)
July 2 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live (on sale March 6)
July 3 Virginia Beach, VA Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
July 5 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena (on sale Feb. 21)
July 7 Gilford, MD Bank of NH Pavilion at Meadowbrook*
July 9 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center (on sale Feb. 21)
July 11 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (on sale Feb. 21)
July 12 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 14 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre (on sale Feb. 21)
July 15 Youngstown, OH Covelli Centre*^
July 17 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 21 Mt. Pleasant, MI Soaring Eagle Resort & Casino*^
July 23 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater (on sale Feb. 28)
July 24 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 25 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center (on sale Feb. 28)
August 7 Sturgis, SD Buffalo Chip Campground*^
August 8 Sioux Falls, SD Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
August 10 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena*^
August 11 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
August 14 Sedalia, MO Missouri State Fair*
August 15 Des Moines, IA Iowa State Fair*
August 17 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
August 18 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
August 21 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
August 22 Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 23 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater
August 27 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair*
August 28 Grand Forks, ND Alerus Center
August 30 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
September 1 Allentown, PA The Great Allentown Fair*
September 3 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center*
September 4 Maryland Heights, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (on sale Feb. 21)
September 5 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
September 16 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheater (on sale Feb. 21)
September 17 Ridgefield, WA Amphitheater Northwest (on sale Feb. 21)
September 19 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
September 22 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
September 23 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
September 25 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater
September 26 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
September 28 West Valley City, UT USANA Amphitheater
September 30 Spokane, WA Spokane Arena*
October 2 Bozeman, MT Brick Breeden Fieldhouse*
October 4 Bismarck, ND Bismarck Civic Center*
* – Non Live Nation date
^ – Def Leppard Only
Def Leppard online:
twitter.com/def_leppard
facebook.com/defleppard
Styx online:
styxworld.com
facebook.com/styxtheband
twitter.com/styxtheband
instagram.com/styxtheband
Tesla online:
facebook.com/Teslatheband
twitter.com/teslalive
youtube.com/teslatheband
On a positive note, I don’t believe Dennis D Young and his Brillo Pad hair-do are still part of Styx. Nothing better than going to see a band with a guy wearing a Miami Vice suit and a powdered wig.
Harry,
Thank you for the belly laughs today. Priceless. LOL!
D 🙂
Hey don’t be making fun of Miami Vice, that’s still cool, right?
Great bill! Should be fun.
Well this one might be worth going to see. It’s within reasonable traveling distance (Albuquerque). I haven’t seen Def Leppard since 1992 and Styx since 2004. I last saw Tesla when they opened for the Scorpions back in 2012. Now the only thing that can put a kibosh to this is if the tickets are outrageously high. Otherwise looks like I’ll have a road trip to plan come September.
I’m not all that interested in seeing Def Leppard any more. I just don’t like the music they’ve put out since their 80’s heyday. I’d love to see them do HIGH AND DRY live in its entirety. That’s still their best album all these decades later. It’s a good bill with Styx and Tesla. Hell, I’d go see those two bands if it were just them on tour together.
High N’ Dry or Pyromania, sign me up please. Speaking of which, what happened to the Pyromania residency Def Leppard were supposed to be doing in Vegas? I would definitely consider going “West young [wo]man” for that. 😀
D 🙂
Them playing songs from the first three albums exclusively in one show would be an awesome experience, almost like going back in time. They did that during their last Vegas residency and I wished I could have seen it. All those old songs just rock harder than what came after them. When they did play the old songs during their last residency, didn’t they called themselves “Dead Flatbird”? So if Def Leppard doesn’t want to make a crunchy, hard rocking album like On Through The Night, High N’ Dry or Pyromania any more, maybe Dead Flatbird will one day.
Wow, yeah High N’ Dry (will never happen) or Pyromania in it’s entirety would get me there. Saw DL only once back in 2000 on the Euphoria tour (which truthfully, half of that album was pretty good), they played a handful off Pyromania but the only H n’D track was “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”. I’ll probably always have just a small spark of hope that they’ll go retro and put out another great rock album, and load up the old stuff in the setlist, but realistically I think they’re too much of a pop band now and that’s what we’ll continue to get.
For this tour, I don’t care much for Styx but Tesla is a great band. Glad to see them out on a big tour with hopefully big audiences.
I saw the Lepps in Colorado, want to say about 10 years ago, and they opened with “Let it Go,” off High n’ Dry. What a great tune. “Hello America” off their debut, now that would be a nice surprise for this tour.
What is going on with that person in the middle? I had no idea Meg Ryan was in that band. I have been away for quite some time but guy is still shirtless. It is currently -9 degrees here in Middletown and that guy still isn’t wearing a freaking shirt. The show should be a killer as those are three great acts.
These guys look like a pack of pissed off Grandmothers! What with the guy with no shirt wearing make up?? He looks like Sideshow Bob with no hair! Def Leppard’s music turned to pop dog s–t after Pyromania. They fired Pete the guitarist who wrote all the hard rock hits! Now they try to shove songs from the sparkle lounge down our throats! Weak Ass Tour!
They started out as teenagers and now you may refer to them as survivors all things considered. The HYSTERIA album was their blessing and curse. They went from the top up and coming rockers to an 80s hit machine and lost their identity. The first 3 albums are still great especially HIGH N DRY for me. HYSTERIA may have set them up for life financially but artistically it stands as a brick wall. It was as if they went from a Bon Scott AC/ DC sound to GEORGE MICHAEL with that commercial album. Too bad. Mutt Lange followed the quick cash and now 25+ years later rockers don’t care for them and neither do the 80s crowd. Vivian Campbell has HOLY DIVER on his resume but currently performs
LOVE BITES…LOVE BREETHES…LOVE IS….LOVE CRIES ……LOVE IS. Vivian how do you live with yourself? You are from the same great country as Liam Neeson and you get HYSTERICAL WHEN YOU’RE NEAR. For God sakes man, go play THE LAST IN LINE or STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART. Imagine RJD singing: YOU GOT THE PEACHES/ I GOT THE CREAM/ SWEET TO TASTE/ SACCHARINE/ CAUSE I’M HOT SO HOT STICKY SWEET. Good grief and KISS ripped that s##t off on the postage stamp pyramid album.
You know what? Forget all this. Back to DIO, if you haven’t heard the recently unearthed track ELECTRA you owe it to yourself to check that one out. In the same vein as STARGAZER or SIGN OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Quite epic indeed.