‘The Stadium Tour’: 7 New Dates Announced

Author Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter

December 18th, 2019 1:31 PM

As expected, popular demand has led to more dates of “The Stadium Tour,” the 2020 tour featuring Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.

The following seven shows have been added to “The Stadium Tour”:

6/21 – San Antonio, TX – Alamodome
6/23 – Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Stadium
6/25 – St. Louis, MO – Busch Stadium
6/27 – Minneapolis, MN – U.S. Bank Stadium
6/29 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium
7/2 – Cincinnati, OH – Great American Ballpark
7/3 – Cleveland, OH – FirstEnergy Stadium

Pre-sales for these dates will begin on January 6, with the exception of the Cincinnati dates where pre-sales will begin on January 13. Each date has varying general on-sale date and times, but all of those details will be available via each venue website.

“The Stadium Tour” has already posted incredible numbers with the sale of 700,000 tickets in the first weekend of sales, which added up to the price tag of $90 million. Nine shows, so far, are already sold out in Atlanta, Seattle, Charlotte, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Denver and Milwaukee, whose show became the fastest sellout in Miller Park history.

‘The Stadium Tour’ Press Conference: 5 Biggest Takeaways

• The 1980’s wasn’t a “mockable decade” for music.

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  Def Leppard's Joe Elliott made a very interesting point about what this tour means for this genre of music. He said,"You just put those four names on a piece of paper and look at ’em, whichever way ’round they look at it, it’s a big statement really. And you know, the Eighties get mocked a lot. There is a lot of people that still think of the Eighties as a mockable decade, and we’re about to prove that it’s not. It’s last man standing to a point, maybe, but we have survived… You can sit and analyze it all you like, but at the end of the day, if the songs are still getting played on the radio, there’s a reason for that. It’s because they were good songs."

• Tommy Lee will do something crazy with his drum rig

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  Now that the Crue is back together, what should fans expects from Tommy Lee and his drumming theatrics? "I’m going to shoot myself out of a fucking cannon at this point," said Lee. "I don’t even know what’s left to do. We started designing the production a couple of days ago. We’ve always put everything we have into the design and the production, always try to do a show where people walk out going, ‘That was f---ing insane.’” What all that means is unknown as of right now, but Lee also said, "...everything's going to be four times as big" since they're playing stadiums.

• Making the film version of ‘The Dirt’ really did bring the Crue back together

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  Nikki Sixx made is very clear that he never thought Motley Crue would tour again after their last tour. He said, "We weren’t really getting along at that point. We had been together 35 years and it’s been a lot of years on the road. I don’t think we took a lot of time for ourselves off. We were just constantly touring for all that time. And when we came to the end, we broke the band up and everybody went their own ways. I think we really needed that break." However, that all changed with the script writing and filming of 'The Dirt.' Sixx said, "And I think we sort of realized how much, without even talking about the music, how much we missed each other… We missed each other to be honest with you. We missed being in a band together."
• These shows are going to be an epic party

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  With a bill like this, plenty of people are going to want to check out the show and have a blast, and that's something Poison's Bret Michaels knows and made a point to mention, "I'm just telling you that it is the party of the summer." 2026 Kevin Winter/Getty Images

• More dates could be on the way

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  Yesterday, 22 shows were announced for "The Stadium Tour," but more might be on the way. Joe Elliott said, "There’s 22 stadium shows, so it’s pretty much most major territories. And in fairness it seems to be growing and there’s more interest before it’s even gone on sale. So it may extend one way or another, even in the next year."

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Author Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter

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Def Leppard,Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,Motley Crue,Poison