POP PUNK BAND 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER TO PLAY AT
KFC YUM! CENTER ON AUGUST 4, 2015
Tickets on sale Saturday, August 9, 2014
Contact:
Sandra Kendall
Marketing Director
(502) 991-1546
Deanna Southerling
Marketing /Social Media Specialist
(502) 690-9014
Louisville, KY (July 30, 2014) – Pop punk sensations 5 Seconds of Summer announced today their massive
2015 Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour in support of their Billboard chart-topping, self-titled debut album.
The band's first-ever North American headlining tour, produced and promoted exclusively by Live Nation and
presented by Nabisco, the makers of OREO, RITZ and HONEY MAID, will kick off on July 17, 2015 at the
Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The tour will take the breakout band to amphitheaters and
arenas in 30 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, including a stop in Louisville at KFC Yum! Center on
Tuesday, August 4.
The hottest ticket of the 2015 summer concert season will go on-sale starting Saturday, Aug. 9 at the KFC Yum!
Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Citi®
cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 10:00 a.m. local time through
Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
This past Saturday, thousands of fans converged on The Forum in Los Angeles where tickets went on sale for
the band's first-ever headlining arena performance. The quartet treated nearly 6,000 attendees to a special
three-song acoustic set. All available tickets for the Nov. 15 show sold out instantly leading the band to add a
second date on Nov. 16 at The Forum. Tickets for the second show go on sale on Aug. 9. Leading up to both
Forum dates, the band will now also play a brand new show at the Ak-Chin Pavilion on Nov. 13, 2014 in
Phoenix, Ariz. Tickets for that show will also go on sale on Aug. 9.
The band's self-titled debut album on Capitol Records rocketed to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 moving
258,000 units. 5 Seconds of Summer are special guests on the One Direction Where We Are World Tour, set to
hit North America on Aug. 1.
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER "ROCK OUT WITH YOUR SOCKS OUT" SUMMER 2015 HEADLINING TOUR
*Tickets on sale starting Aug. 9 at www.livenation.com.
**All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
July 17, 2015
Las Vegas, NV
Mandalay Bay Event Center
July 18, 2015
Chula Vista, CA
Sleep Train Amphitheatre
July 20, 2015
Irvine, CA
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 22, 2015
Mountain View, CA
Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 24, 2015
Seattle, WA
Key Arena
July 25, 2015
Vancouver, BC
Pepsi Live At Rogers Arena
July 27, 2015
Edmonton, AB
Rexall Place
July 29, 2015
Winnipeg, MB
MTS Centre
July 31, 2015
St. Paul, MN
Xcel Energy Center
Aug. 1, 2015
Tinley Park, IL
First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Aug. 4, 2015
Louisville, KY
KFC Yum! Center
Aug. 5, 2015
Atlanta, GA
Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Aug. 7, 2015
Dallas, TX
Gexa Energy Pavilion
Aug. 8, 2015
Houston, TX
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Aug. 19, 2015
Auburn Hills, MI
The Palace of Auburn Hills
Aug. 21, 2015
Cleveland, OH
Quicken Loans Arena
Aug. 22, 2015
Noblesville, IN
Klipsch Music Pavilion
Aug. 23, 2015
Burgettstown, PA
First Niagara Pavilion
Aug. 25, 2015
Toronto, ON
Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Aug. 28, 2015
Mansfield, MA
Xfinity Center
Aug. 29, 2015
Hershey, PA
Hershey Park Pavilion Stadium
Aug. 30, 2015
Holmdel, NJ
PNC Bank Arts Center
Sept. 1, 2015
Wantagh, NY
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Sept. 4, 2015
Camden, NJ
Susquehanna Bank Center
Sept. 5, 2015
Hartford, CT
Xfinity Theatre
Sept. 6, 2015
Bristow, VA
Jiffy Lube Live
Sept. 7, 2015
Virginia Beach, VA
Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
Sept. 9, 2015
Charlotte, NC
PNC Music Pavilion
Sept. 12, 2015
Tampa, FL
MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sept. 13, 2015
West Palm Beach, FL
Cruzan Amphitheatre
Nov. 13, 2014
Phoenix, AZ
Ak-Chin Pavilion (on sale Aug. 9)
Nov. 15, 2014
Los Angeles, CA
The Forum (sold-out)
Nov. 16, 2014
Los Angeles, CA
The Forum (on sale Aug. 9)
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About the KFC Yum! Center
The KFC Yum! Center is Louisville’s newest multi-purpose arena that boasts a total of 721,762 square feet while offering an arena bowl exceeding 22,000
seats and four meeting rooms spanning approximately 34,000 square feet all within walking distance of more than 4,200 hotel rooms in downtown
Louisville. It is home to the University of Louisville men’s and women’s basketball programs and is ideal for concerts, conventions, corporate events,
family shows, ice shows, wrestling and more. The KFC Yum! Center is a state of the art facility with advance technology capabilities that is owned by the
Louisville Arena Authority and managed by AEG Worldwide. For more information, visit www.kfcyumcenter.com.
About AEG Facilities
AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, is the leading sports, entertainment and venue operator in the world. AEG Facilities, a standalone affiliate of AEG, owns, operates or consults with more than 100 of the industry’s preeminent venues worldwide, across five continents, providing
complete venue management, as well as specialized programs in operations, guest services, ticketing, booking, sales and marketing. AEG Facilities also
provides resources and access to other AEG-affiliated entities, including live event producer, AEG Live, AEG Global Partnerships, AEG Development, AEG
1Earth, AEG Encore and AEG Creative to support the success of AEG venues across the globe. The Los Angeles-based organization owns, operates or
provides services to the world’s most elite venues, including KFC Yum! Center (Louisville, Ky.), STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, Calif.), StubHub Center
(Carson, Calif.), Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (Los Angeles, Calif.), Sprint Center (Kansas City, Mo.), AmericanAirlines Arena (Miami, Fla.), Prudential Center
(Newark, N.J.), Target Center (Minneapolis, Minn.), BBVA Compass Stadium (Houston, Texas), Oracle Arena and O.co Coliseum (Oakland, Calif.), CONSOL
Energy Center (Pittsburgh, Penn.), Rabobank Arena (Bakersfield, Calif.), Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai, China), MasterCard Center (Beijing, China), The
O2 Arena (London, England), O2 World (Berlin, Germany), O2 World Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany), Ahoy Arena (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Itaipava
Arena Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil), Allianz Parque (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Allphones Arena (Sydney, Australia), Ülker Sports Arena (Istanbul, Turkey), Ericsson
Globe Arena (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Oman Convention and Exhibition Center (Muscat, Oman). For more information, please visit
aegworldwide.com.