Summer Concert Anniversary Tour Rocks Taupo
Summer Concert Anniversary Tour Rocks
Taupo
After
an 18,000 strong sellout crowd in Queenstown last weekend,
the annual Summer Concert Tour today moved onto its North
Island leg with 15,000 fans descending on Taupo Amphitheatre
for the sold out Taupo Summer
Concert.
Celebrating
Greenstone Entertainment’s 10th anniversary and the 9th
Taupo Summer Concert, hot and sunny summer conditions
greeted international acts, Smash Mouth, Creedence
Clearwater Revisited, Anastacia, George Thorogood & The
Destroyers and BILLY
IDOL.
Providing the
opportunity for local New Zealand artists to perform to
audiences of this scale, organisers this year offered the
opening set of the day to Jam Dr., as
concert goers set themselves up for the day with their
picnic baskets, chilly bins and sunscreen.
With the
picturesque back drop of the Waikato River in the
background, Smash Mouth took to the stage
at midday, who got the crowd warmed up with their 90’s
‘ska pop’ hits including All Star,
Walkin’ On The Sun and Then The
Morning Comes.
Next up was
an incredible set from Creedence Clearwater
Revisited, who on their farewell tour, had concert
goers cheering for more after a set of songs from across the
60’s and 70’s, with just some of them including
Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising
and Proud
Mary.
Anastacia, who along with her dancers and band, was next on the bill and they wowed the audience with a great stage performance as well as her smash hits from the early 2000’s I’m Outta Love, Sick and Tired and Left Outside Alone.
As the show again rolled into the late afternoon and early evening, fans were gearing up for the final two acts of the day.
If last weekend is anything to go by, George Thorogood & The Destroyers are sure to be a hit when George hits the stage and punches out his mega hits of the last 45 years including Bad To The Bone, Who Do You Love, and One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.
Ending the day in style, BILLY
IDOL and his band, including his wicked lead
guitarist Steve Stevens, will be a fitting
finish when they’re expected to play a collection of their
80’s smash hits the likes of Rebel Yell, Eyes
Without A Face and Dancing With Myself to
name but a
few.
Amanda
Calvert, CEO of Greenstone Entertainment comments,
“Already 33,000 fans have experienced these amazing
artists in either Queenstown or Taupo. We can’t thank all
the fans enough for coming along to support these fantastic
artists who make the long journey to New Zealand to share
their first class talent with us all. We now move onto the
final sold out show of the tour tomorrow in the amazing
Whitianga .”
ENDS