{"id":635519,"date":"2026-10-19T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:40:11","slug":"kings-of-leon-announce-auckland-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635519\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings of Leon announce Auckland show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy award-winning rock band Kings Of Leon have announced they will play an Auckland show before heading down to Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The Sex on Fire hitmakers will perform at Live at the Domain on Wednesday, February 24 with support from Australian rock band Ocean Alley.<\/p>\n<p>The rockers were previously announced as headliners for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/13\/sold-out-electric-avenue-to-release-more-tickets-but-theres-a-catch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sold-out Electric Avenue festival<\/a> at Hagley Park on February 26 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Live at the Domain had pop-punk band Good Charlotte and Yellowcard take to the stage with support from Highly Suspect and Tadpole. <\/p>\n<p>Kings of Leon&#8217;s Auckland show was being supported by the Government&#8217;s one-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/14\/govt-unveils-70m-fund-to-lure-global-acts-support-major-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Events Attraction Package<\/a> \u2013 a $40 million fund aimed at bringing large-scale international events to the country.<\/p>\n<p>A Westpac Mastercard pre-sale will run from October 22 at 12pm to October 27 at 12pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Live Nation pre-sale starts on October 23 from 12pm.<\/p>\n<p>General tickets will go on sale from October 27 at 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy award-winning rock band Kings Of Leon have announced they will play an Auckland show before heading down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-635519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-auckland","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635519","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=635519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}