Nickelback announce date at The O2 as part of UK tour and new album "Dark Horse"
Multi-million selling Canadians NICKELBACK are set to return to the UK next May off the back of their recent sell out tour and in support of their new album "Dark Horse".The band will play The O2 arena on May 28th as the London date in their tour. David Campbell, CEO & President of AEG Europe, owners and operators of The O2, commented: "Nickleback played The O2 in September and went down an absolute storm! We are thrilled to have them back and be the London date of their tour." Since it rolled out of Alberta some 13 years ago, Nickelback has been a hit-making, multi-platinum concern whose last album, 2005's 'All The Right Reasons' is one of the most successful of the century, and has stoked great expectations for the quartet's sixth album, Dark Horse. A lesser group might rest on its proverbial laurels and assume the world is anxiously waiting for it, but Nickelback - Kroeger, his brother and bassist Mike Kroeger, guitarist Ryan Peake and drummer Daniel Adair - still feel like a new album is a fresh opportunity to prove themselves. "I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again," Chad Kroeger explains. "I want every single song to be amazing. That's what I want to hear, so that's what we have to try to provide to our fans." Nickelback is well ahead of those odds, and it continues to pulverize them with Dark Horse, an 11-track survey of everything the group has done so well to this point - fist-pumping anthems, grinding rockers, soaring power ballads, grinning sexual innuendo, heart-wringing romanticism, choruses that stick in your ears after the first listen and hooks so big they practically boomerang through the songs. Nickelback's track record certainly speaks to the group's stature. The group has sold 27 million albums worldwide and, since the 2001 breakthrough of "How You Remind Me," has sent 13 singles rocketing onto the various Billboard charts, expanding its solid foothold in rock markets to the Top 40 world. All The Right Reasons insured Nickelback an indelible place in rock history, however. It spent a staggering 112 consecutive weeks in the Top 30 of the Billboard Top 200, was certified 8-times platinum in the U.S. and has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide, topping charts in four countries. All The Right Reasons spun off seven multi-format singles and made Nickelback the first band in Nielsen BDS history to send five singles onto the CHR charts. All five of the album's videos hit No. 1 on VH1's playlist, while Nickelback has sold more than 9 million single digital downloads and more than 5 million ringtones of the album's songs. All The Right Reasons won the American Music Award for Favourite Pop/Rock Album and helped the quartet to three Billboard Music Awards in 2006 and a pair of Juno Awards in Canada. And on the road, Nickelback has sold more than 1.65 million concert tickets over the course of the album cycle. Tickets are priced £37.50 and go on sale on Friday 5 December at 9am. They can be bought via www.theo2.co.uk or by calling 0844 856 0202. Download as PDF [44KB PDF doc opens in new window] |
