October 26, 2024 • 6 mins
Kiwi metal fans can rejoice - as Metallica has confirmed they'll bring their M72 world tour to New Zealand in November 2025.
The band will perform at Auckland's Eden Park, and fans will be able to experience the band in person for the first time since 2010.
Entertainment commentator Chris Schulz says this experience comes with a high price - as tickets are expected to sell for a record-shattering sum.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB joining me now to talk entertainment. I am joined
by Chris Schultz.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning, Good morning, Francesca Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Big news for Metallica fans.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I was just last week complaining that no bands were
coming to New Zealand anymore. They were always touring Australia
and and choosing not to come here. And now look
we're getting Metallica. This is the biggest of big shows.
They are playing Eden Park on November nineteen. That's November nineteen,
next year, not next month. This is part of the
(00:44):
seventy two World Tour and it's huge. I mean, this
promises to be a massive show. They haven't been here
since I think I think it's been like fifteen years.
They played Spark Arena in the round at least ten years.
The thing is, I do have a complaint about the show.
(01:06):
They are selling very expensive tickets. They might be a record.
The fan packages are right up there, including a four
thousand dollars Fan Experience which gets you early entry, a laminate,
a behind the scenes tour in a photo with two
(01:26):
of the band. So if you're that big of a
Metallica fan, you can splash out four thousand dollars on
a ticket. I honestly, I don't think i've seen anything like.
I've seen meet and greet tickets that will sort of
like seven hundred and fifty dollars. I think Adele was
doing one thousand dollar tickets if you wanted to be
right up the front of her show. But I've never
(01:46):
seen a four thousand dollar ticket. This is right up there.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That is a lot. You'd hope to get a drink
thrown in maybe as well, wouldn't you, Chris Well?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
With the band? I mean, you want to be sitting
down having a beer with Lars.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Right, not just flying through like a visit to Santa Yep, next, next, next.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Have you seen them perform live? Are they just magnificent live?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah? I saw them at that Spark Arena show. I
remember a fan. I sat down in my seat and
a fan in front of us just leaped back and
pulled his beer right into my lap, a whole beer,
which set the time perfectly right. That's what you wanted
a Metallica show. They were incredible, Yeah they are. They're
in very good form. The reviews coming out are excellent.
Apparently they do this thing where they played cities twice
(02:32):
and they do a no repeats rule where they don't
play the same song two nights in a row. So
they do sell out the first show and they announce
a second. You might want to go both nights to
see completely different shows.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I can imagine them being very well suited to Eden
Park to the venue.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that'll be a great
place to see them.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The neighbors will love it. Hey, Tom York has also
been in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
This has been Yeah, this has been on headlines across
media around the world because a Tom York's never toured
solo before. The Radiohead his main band. They haven't played
live since twenty eighteen. So if you go on music
websites right now, they're full of clips from his Auckland shows.
(03:17):
They're full of news. Everyone's like looking at what he's
playing because he's playing songs at radio. He haven't played
live since two thousand and three. I went on the
Friday night. It was spectacular, but it was nothing like
what I expected. Tom York solo conjures up images of
a just kind of a sad man sitting at a
piano under a spotlight playing kind of ethereal ballads, and
(03:40):
so I thought it would be like really sad and
kind of depressing, and it wasn't that at all. This
was a full on dance party. Tom York is having
a brat summer. He just played beats, really good, like
dance songs, Like a lot of his solo material is
kind of trip hop experimental sort of stuff, and he
(04:03):
played a lot of that, and it was just it
was really surprising, like they should have cleared out the floor.
It was a sit down show, but the music and
the lights and everything made it seem like we should
have been in a club kind of atmosphere with lasers
and smoke machines. Like that feels like what he really
wanted to do. So he'd play these like really upbeat
party songs and then he'd sort of bring out his
(04:24):
guitar and play a Radiohead for a song for the
Radiohead fans, and then go back to playing the club stuff.
But I think he really wanted to dance. That was
the main reason he was there.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And tell us a little bit about fanatical the catfishing
of Tegan and Sarah yeah, really weird documentary.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't even know if you remember this band, Francisca. Yeah, yeah,
the mid two thousands, right, like they were a big deal.
They certainly came to New Zealand a few times. They
were one of those bands that cultivated really passionate fan base.
They would the kind of band that would like go
out and hang out at the merch table after shows
and talk to fans for hours and just hang out
(05:04):
with them. And so this is a about how that
fandom turned really toxic for them. I didn't know this story.
It's this is not a biopic about the band at all.
This is about a fan who impersonated Teagan, one of
the band members for years and carried out these kind
of really intense online relationships with dozens of fans, but
(05:29):
just online impersonating them. She got somehow got really intimate
photos and song demos and would send those two fans
to sort of prove she was her and then carry
out these super intense, like catfishing relationships pretending to be them.
And they haven't spoken about this since because it really
hurt them, hurt the band. You can see that the
(05:51):
pain in their eyes, these fans when they interview them
for this documentary, so it's about that. But then also
they're trying to track down who did this all those
years ago. They go on this big, wild like hunt
for the person responsible for this. So it's yeah, I
found this fascinating. It's a really really good documentary. I
(06:11):
thoroughly recommend. It's on Disney Plus brilliant.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Thank you so much, Chris, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it Be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB joining me now to talk entertainment. I am joined
by Chris Schultz.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning, Good morning, Francesca Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Big news for Metallica fans.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I was just last week complaining that no bands were
coming to New Zealand anymore. They were always touring Australia
and and choosing not to come here. And now look
we're getting Metallica. This is the biggest of big shows.
They are playing Eden Park on November nineteen. That's November nineteen,
next year, not next month. This is part of the
(00:44):
seventy two World Tour and it's huge. I mean, this
promises to be a massive show. They haven't been here
since I think I think it's been like fifteen years.
They played Spark Arena in the round at least ten years.
The thing is, I do have a complaint about the show.
(01:06):
They are selling very expensive tickets. They might be a record.
The fan packages are right up there, including a four
thousand dollars Fan Experience which gets you early entry, a laminate,
a behind the scenes tour in a photo with two
(01:26):
of the band. So if you're that big of a
Metallica fan, you can splash out four thousand dollars on
a ticket. I honestly, I don't think i've seen anything like.
I've seen meet and greet tickets that will sort of
like seven hundred and fifty dollars. I think Adele was
doing one thousand dollar tickets if you wanted to be
right up the front of her show. But I've never
(01:46):
seen a four thousand dollar ticket. This is right up there.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That is a lot. You'd hope to get a drink
thrown in maybe as well, wouldn't you, Chris Well?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
With the band? I mean, you want to be sitting
down having a beer with Lars.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Right, not just flying through like a visit to Santa Yep, next, next, next.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Have you seen them perform live? Are they just magnificent live?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah? I saw them at that Spark Arena show. I
remember a fan. I sat down in my seat and
a fan in front of us just leaped back and
pulled his beer right into my lap, a whole beer,
which set the time perfectly right. That's what you wanted
a Metallica show. They were incredible, Yeah they are. They're
in very good form. The reviews coming out are excellent.
Apparently they do this thing where they played cities twice
(02:32):
and they do a no repeats rule where they don't
play the same song two nights in a row. So
they do sell out the first show and they announce
a second. You might want to go both nights to
see completely different shows.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I can imagine them being very well suited to Eden
Park to the venue.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that'll be a great
place to see them.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The neighbors will love it. Hey, Tom York has also
been in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
This has been Yeah, this has been on headlines across
media around the world because a Tom York's never toured
solo before. The Radiohead his main band. They haven't played
live since twenty eighteen. So if you go on music
websites right now, they're full of clips from his Auckland shows.
(03:17):
They're full of news. Everyone's like looking at what he's
playing because he's playing songs at radio. He haven't played
live since two thousand and three. I went on the
Friday night. It was spectacular, but it was nothing like
what I expected. Tom York solo conjures up images of
a just kind of a sad man sitting at a
piano under a spotlight playing kind of ethereal ballads, and
(03:40):
so I thought it would be like really sad and
kind of depressing, and it wasn't that at all. This
was a full on dance party. Tom York is having
a brat summer. He just played beats, really good, like
dance songs, Like a lot of his solo material is
kind of trip hop experimental sort of stuff, and he
(04:03):
played a lot of that, and it was just it
was really surprising, like they should have cleared out the floor.
It was a sit down show, but the music and
the lights and everything made it seem like we should
have been in a club kind of atmosphere with lasers
and smoke machines. Like that feels like what he really
wanted to do. So he'd play these like really upbeat
party songs and then he'd sort of bring out his
(04:24):
guitar and play a Radiohead for a song for the
Radiohead fans, and then go back to playing the club stuff.
But I think he really wanted to dance. That was
the main reason he was there.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And tell us a little bit about fanatical the catfishing
of Tegan and Sarah yeah, really weird documentary.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't even know if you remember this band, Francisca. Yeah, yeah,
the mid two thousands, right, like they were a big deal.
They certainly came to New Zealand a few times. They
were one of those bands that cultivated really passionate fan base.
They would the kind of band that would like go
out and hang out at the merch table after shows
and talk to fans for hours and just hang out
(05:04):
with them. And so this is a about how that
fandom turned really toxic for them. I didn't know this story.
It's this is not a biopic about the band at all.
This is about a fan who impersonated Teagan, one of
the band members for years and carried out these kind
of really intense online relationships with dozens of fans, but
(05:29):
just online impersonating them. She got somehow got really intimate
photos and song demos and would send those two fans
to sort of prove she was her and then carry
out these super intense, like catfishing relationships pretending to be them.
And they haven't spoken about this since because it really
hurt them, hurt the band. You can see that the
(05:51):
pain in their eyes, these fans when they interview them
for this documentary, so it's about that. But then also
they're trying to track down who did this all those
years ago. They go on this big, wild like hunt
for the person responsible for this. So it's yeah, I
found this fascinating. It's a really really good documentary. I
(06:11):
thoroughly recommend. It's on Disney Plus brilliant.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Thank you so much, Chris, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it Be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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