{"id":142436,"date":"2025-11-19T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/142436\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:41:10","slug":"summer-concert-organisers-shift-iggy-pop-and-joan-jett-show-to-spark-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/142436\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Concert organisers shift Iggy Pop and Joan Jett show to Spark Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/waikato-news\/news\/iggy-pop-and-joan-jett-lead-summer-concert-tour-shows-in-taupo-whitianga-and-wanaka\/GRRCWSTNKFCODAG62SCGDTO4ZA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/waikato-news\/news\/iggy-pop-and-joan-jett-lead-summer-concert-tour-shows-in-taupo-whitianga-and-wanaka\/GRRCWSTNKFCODAG62SCGDTO4ZA\/\">Summer Concert tour<\/a> will kick off at Taup\u014d\u2019s Amphitheatre on January 24 before playing Spark Arena on January 29 and wrapping up at W\u0101naka\u2019s Three Parks Outdoor Arena on January 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Local band Zed will play the series with the visiting international rockers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">However, the change of plans means Australian act Hoodoo Gurus aren\u2019t able to play the Auckland set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Whitianga ticket holders can transfer to Taup\u014d or Auckland, or receive a refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Pop, who started his career in the late 1960s fronting The Stooges, is famous for his songs \u201cThe Passenger\u201d, \u201cLust for Life\u201d and \u201cReal Wild Child\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Jett formed her band with the Blackhearts in 1979 and had worldwide smash hits with \u201cI Love Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll\u201d and \u201cI Hate Myself For Loving You\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Summer Concert tour will kick off at Taup\u014d\u2019s Amphitheatre on January 24 before playing Spark Arena on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,28440,25759,156,62119,23996,62120,111,139,69,86269,4913,5258,1305,9643,14625,61],"class_list":["post-142436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-and","tag-arena","tag-concert","tag-entertainment","tag-iggy","tag-jett","tag-joan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-organisers","tag-pop","tag-shift","tag-show","tag-spark","tag-summer","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}