Three rock concerts. Three epic albums. Three amazing months!
New Zealand’s greatest rock musicians come together once more for an extraordinary series of concerts in 2022, starting in August with Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, then October with Tom Petty’s Damn the Torpedoes and finally in November with The Beatles’ White Album.
This year’s epic line-up and absolute killer band includes Jon Toogood, Deva Mahal, Milan Borich, Sam Scott, James Milne, Delaney Davidson, Anthonie Tonnan, Lou’ana, Dianne Swann, Luke Buda, Adam Hattaway, Brett Adams, Matthias Jordan, Jol Mulholland (MD), Alistair Deverick, Mike Hall and more to be announced
This Supergroup in various incarnations will perform these great albums live, in their entirety – back to back, track by track along with a bonus set of classics and deep cuts.
Fans of the Come Together series (Rumours, Goodbye Yellow Brick Rd, Sticky Fingers, Live Rust, Brothers In Arms, Abbey Road) are urged to move quickly as these concerts, like the others, is expected to sell quickly.
To date the Come Together Album Concert Series has attracted over 25,000 concertgoers and received consistently outstanding reviews
Presales start today at 9am. All remaining tickets on sale this Thursday at 9am. Tickets from $99 plus ticketing charges. Tickets from Ticketmaster & Ticketek.
AUGUST 11,12,20
COME TOGETHER – DAVID BOWIE’S THE RISE & FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST & THE SPIDERS FROM MARS + Classics & Deep Cuts
Celebrating its 50th year, ‘Ziggy Stardust’ features several seminal Bowie tracks such as ‘Suffragette City’, ‘Moonage Daydream’ and ‘Starman’. Often cited as a breakthrough record for the ‘Life on Mars’ artist, ‘Ziggy Stardust’ saw Bowie become internationally popular and the album has gone on to be considered one of the greatest of all time.
OCTOBER 27,28,29
COME TOGETHER – TOM PETTY’S DAMN THE TORPEDOES + Classics inc. Traveling Wilburys
Tom Petty’s songs have defined rock radio since the 70s.
‘Damn the Torpedoes is the peak of Tom Petty’s songwriting with the Heartbreakers. Slick, big, and immutably classic, the album is a front-to-back feat of production and songwriting.’ Pitchfork
Reaching number 1 in NZ, Damn the Torpedoes features classics “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That”. With a bonus set of classics and Traveling Wilburys.
NOVEMBER 10,11,12
COME TOGETHER – THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM + Classics & Deep Cuts
Released on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of US President John F . Kennedy, The Beatles' White Album saw John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr create a a blueprint for the future of rock music as they began to splinter as a group.
With Brian Epstein dead, Lennon self-medicating with LSD, Yoko Ono's presence a distraction and Starr temporarily leaving the band, it was an album where the Beatles' washed their dirty laundry in the most public manner possible - loudersound.com
– and critically regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Reviews from previous Come Together Tours
‘To witness last night’s concert was to see a group of musicians at the very height of their combined musical excellence, putting on an unforgettable show that paid fitting tribute to an artist who helped invent and shape modern rock, folk, and country – it was a concert that many in attendance will never forget, and one that will reignite their passion for an unforgettable musical icon.”
“To hit that high point with 12 songs yet to be played is a feat within itself, but to elicit that same level of awe and appreciation from an entire theatre of die-hard fans for the remainder of the set was simply breathtaking – it was a collective performance that demanded adjectives yet-to-be-invented within the English language. “
“One thing we did know early on, this is a show that rocks. And how could it not? Some of the best classic rock songs were being played by New Zealand’s best rockers. This was no trot down memory lanes, these folks didn’t ‘cover’ the 26 Stones songs performed tonight, they inhabited them.”
“I have seen four Beatle tribute bands in New Zealand over the years. All take off and fly. Come Together is the biggest on stage to do it. They do not drop the level of inspiration all night.” 13th Floor
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