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Dodgy tickets, huge mark-ups – what is viagogo really up to.

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Offshore touts are trying to flog off expensive tickets to concerts all over New Zealand. And sometimes those tickets may not even exist. What can be done to stop it?

A dam Webb is hovering over his keyboard, frantically searching for information. He has multiple internet tabs open and fake credit cards laid out on the table in front of him. It’s just after 6am in London, and he’s fresh out of bed, only on his first coffee. But his fingers fly across the keyboard. He’s in the zone – and I don’t dare interrupt him. 

“Here’s one,” he says. “ It’s a tiny little house in Dundee, Scotland.” Webb clicks his mouse, taps his keyboard, and gets another result. “Here are more tickets being listed by another company in Albuquerque, USA.” Another pause. “Here’s another one in Israel.” He looks up at me, staring back wide-eyed through a Zoom window, and declares: “It’s deeply suspicious.”

You’re probably wondering what’s going on. I am too. Webb contacted me after I wrote this story urging Lorde fans not to buy tickets for her upcoming New Zealand tour through Viagogo. VIP tickets for $1300 had appeared on the ticket resale site, yet Lorde doesn’t offer VIP tickets, and doesn’t charge $1300. Most of her summer shows will set fans back around $100. After an outcry, Viagogo removed them .

Webb got in touch to let me know he was watching all of this closely. Based in London, his main job is in music publicity, but he spends his spare time running Fanfair Alliance , a not-for-profit organisation that educates ticket buyers and campaigns for major reforms. In the UK, the home of premier league football, ticket resale companies are big business, with several major players in the market.

Lately, though, Viagogo has been firmly in his sights. That’s because it’s constantly making headlines. You’ve probably heard about the company before. Perhaps you’ve bought tickets off the site. Maybe those tickets were fine, and you had a great night. Maybe those tickets were useless and you were left standing outside a stadium, a few hundred dollars missing from your pocket, listening to the applause as everyone else enjoys the show.

That happens regularly. Recent New Zealand shows by UK comic Russell Howard and local pop bigwigs Six60, as well as tours by the Van Gogh Alive exhibit and The Great Moscow Circus, all sparked headlines over fans buying overpriced tickets, some that they later discovered were “worthless”. 

Despite writing about Viagogo regularly over the past decade, I realised I didn’t fully understand how it operated. I asked Webb if he’d show me. “I’d be happy to,” he said. So we set up a Zoom call and dived in. He opened up multiple international versions of Viagogo, pulled out fake credit cards so he could pretend to buy tickets, and walked me through it. 

O n its website, Viagogo calls itself “a global online platform for live sport, music and entertainment tickets”. It started in 2006, and operates out of London and Switzerland. A spokesperson told me: “ A high volume of tickets are sold on Viagogo across the world every day and our platform exists to ensure that buyers receive valid tickets on time for the event, and sellers are paid.”  Webb agrees that the company, like eBay, Trade Me, and Ticketmaster’s own secondary site, Ticketmaster Resale,  “connects buyers and sellers”. 

But that’s where the comparisons diverge, claims Webb. “In reality, Viagogo is dependent upon two things: one is Google advertising, so every time you search for tickets, they pay to be at the top of your search,” he says. “The second is the tickets are not sold by you and me, and they’re not sold by consumers.” Webb claims the vast majority of tickets sold on Viagogo are listed by large-scale ticket touts. “It’s a scalping machine, basically.”

Webb doesn’t stop there. He believes fake ticket listings can be widely found on Viagogo. To prove this, he starts examining listings for Lorde’s upcoming run of New Zealand shows – six outdoor concerts across February and March, including a headlining performance at Christchurch festival Electric Avenue. “If I Google ‘Electric Avenue music festival’ Viagogo will pay to top the Google search results,” he says.

Webb pulls up Viagogo’s ticket offerings for Lorde’s February 26 appearance and finds multiple listings, all from overseas-based sellers. Some of those tickets are priced at more than $1000 – 10 times the face value. “ This is not someone who’s going to this event – this is a business,” says Webb. He types in the numbers for his fake credit card to locate the sellers. One was in Dundee, a mid-sized city in Scotland. 

Lorde, says Webb, doesn’t like scalpers. “You can see it in her communications. She wants her fans to buy tickets, not weird companies from Scotland.” It’s true: in an email to fans announcing tickets for shows were on sale, she’d issued a veiled warning about scalpers: “You know the drill,” she wrote. “Good luck out there.” In London, Webb kept searching, and discovered “clumps of tickets” all at the same price. “They just look like clones. My guess is that these tickets don’t exist. I think they’re cloned listings.”

Webb has some evidence to support his suspicion. In August, Scottish website The Daily Record reported nearly $2 million in speculative tickets had been removed from Viagogo after a probe by the news outfit. Those tickets allegedly came from just one seller, based in Munich, who had listed 700 tickets alone for one Glasgow-based music festival. 

The Daily Record’s report also said this: “ In another bizarre twist … Viagogo has said it will stand by another dubious seller, who used a false address in Dundee to list hundreds of tickets.” That, claims Webb, is the same seller listing tickets to Lorde shows in New Zealand. Is listing fake tickets even legal? “No,” says Webb. “It’s fraud.”

I n the days that followed our chat, Webb’s words bounced around my head. I decided to keep an eye on Viagogo for tickets being sold for other local concerts. I didn’t have to look far. On August 4, tickets for a tour by rock act Shihad were due to go on sale through Ticketmaster. I’m a fan, and I was planning on buying two of them to the band’s November 27 show at the Powerstation. 

A few hours before the official on sale time, I checked Viagogo. They were already listed. Six general admission tickets that weren’t even on sale yet were on offer for $282, and another six were available for $286. Confused, I waited a few hours, and at midday, purchased two legitimate tickets from Ticketmaster for around $80, plus a bit extra for processing and handling fees. 

As confidence returned to the industry, and major artists began confirming post-pandemic tours, I kept checking in. After I missed out on general admission tickets to Tyler, the Creator’s July show at Spark Arena through Ticketmaster, I wondered if Viagogo might have them. They did. “Great! Tickets for Tyler, the Creator are available,” the website told me. They were more than $400 each. I didn’t buy them, instead claiming a legitimate seat, albeit in the nosebleeds, for $140. 

Earlier this week, tickets for Dua Lipa’s show in November 2022, went on sale, again through Ticketmaster. When I checked Viagogo just a few hours after the official on-sale time, dozens of tickets had already been listed. While I searched, a message popped up: “A customer bought four tickets to Dua Lipa in Auckland an hour ago,” it said. Whoever that is, I feel sorry for them. 

I asked Webb to look into the same shows and he found tickets were being listed for sale by companies based in Albuquerque and Finland. “ I’d question why two pretty untraceable businesses in the US and Finland are targeting shows in New Zealand,” he said. “There’s definitely something fishy going on.” I asked him to elaborate. If you bought those tickets, would you get actual tickets? “Who knows?” Webb replies. He thinks the seller would take your money, attempt to buy much cheaper tickets, give you those, and pocket the surplus. “It’s the perfect crime, in a way, because you’ve got no risk.”

In a statement, Viagogo says all sellers are required to confirm they have the right to sell their tickets. “ As sellers are not paid until the buyer has attended the event, there is no incentive for people to list a ticket that doesn’t exist,” a spokesperson said. Speculative ticket selling was not permitted on the site. “ If a seller is found guilty of speculative selling they will face disciplinary proceedings and will be blocked from using our platform.”

Viagogo guarantees all ticket sales, the spokesperson said. Full refunds were rare. “N o more than one per cent of all tickets sold worldwide on Viagogo in 2019 had any issues.” As for those Shihad tickets, the spokesperson pointed out the concert’s pre-sale had started the day before I bought my tickets, on August 3.

Y ou don’t have to look far to find out what the local music industry thinks about Viagogo. I spoke to one local ticketing outlet that said it wasn’t just big arena acts by international artists being targeted by scalpers. It found itself a regular target for shows held at small venues around the country. The spokesperson gave one example where a punter had spent $700 on four tickets through Viagogo which should have cost just $44 each. The concert wasn’t even sold out. For an upcoming show by Chelsea Wolf, the original $60 ticket price had been raised to $247 for those purchased through Viagogo.

The promoter for Lorde’s tour, Brent Eccles, let it all out in an interview with Stuff over those fake VIP tickets. “It’s just a scam,” he told the news website. “Chances are you won’t be able to get in. You’ll have to buy another ticket and if it’s sold out, well, look at the situation that you’re in.”

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Callum Mitchell, the promoter for the Electric Avenue festival, told me Viagogo had been an “ongoing issue” for years. “W e’re powerless to do anything about it, other than warn people about Viagogo in our advertising where we can,” Mitchell said. “Unfortunately, the Commerce Commission, the courts, and the government in New Zealand seem powerless. People who use this site will continue to get ripped off, plain and simple.”

It’s not all bad news. The Commerce Commission has engaged Viagogo in court, and achieved results . Mitchell believes Viagogo’s reach and domination is diminishing. “I don’t think it’s as bad as it was a few years ago. There has been so much media coverage of their dodgy practices that most people are now aware that there’s a high chance you’d be buying a fraudulent ticket if you purchased it through Viagogo,” he says.

Webb agrees. He thinks more government regulation would help, along with artists banning ticket resales over face value, and ticketing moving to a mobile-only market. He compares it to the days of Napster. “ It’s just like with music piracy. If you make it easy to share music, like Spotify or Apple Music, The Pirate Bay goes out of business because you’ve created a better system,” he says. “Ticketing is the same.” His hope is that one day his tireless campaign against the company will be over. “ Viagogo is a voodoo market that doesn’t have to exist.”

Viagogo boss defends Taylor Swift and Beyoncé tickets reselling for thousands: ‘If buyers see a ticket that’s out of their price range, don’t buy it’

This summer, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé sent their fans into a frenzy.

When tickets to their tours quickly sold out, fans went to extreme lengths to catch the stars onstage for the first time since 2018. Some snuck into Swift’s Eras Tour by bagging security gigs , while others flew across the globe from Dallas to Stockholm to land a seat at Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour.

It’s why, for those lucky few who managed to get their hands on tickets the old-fashioned way, the two showstopping spectacles offered more than the chance to have fun—for many, it meant business.

Ticket resellers were able to earn hundreds—even thousands—through sites like StubHub and Viagogo, where Swifties could purchase a seat at the Eras Tour for upwards of $35,000.

The ticket scalping has sparked fan fury , new tax laws , and interest from the U.S. Senate —but Cris Miller, the global MD of Viagogo, defended the eye-watering resale price of in-demand tickets in an interview with Fortune.

“Buyers make their own decisions,” he says. “If they see a ticket up there that’s out of their price range or their comfort zone, don’t buy it.”

He’s not offering a harsh reality check for those lusting over tickets they can’t afford. Instead, he argues, the value of tickets up for resale is based on what consumers are willing to spend and has nothing to do with the platform itself.

“We don’t put any restrictions on, [neither] a cap or a floor—so it can go as low as $1 and they can go as high as people posted,” Miller adds. “The reality is that the demand is what sets it.” 

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The business of snapping up tickets and selling them for a profit isn’t without controversy, and ticket scalpers have felt the wrath of a swarm of angry Swifties on X, formerly known as Twitter .

“Makes me sick [that] seconds after tickets for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Miami go on sale, how many damn scalpers and scammers there are selling tickets stopping fans from going to see Taylor,” one fan said as they joined the mounting complaints.

Some even directed their anger at Viagogo directly, with one fan asking how it was “even legal” that tickets were being sold at almost 10 times their face value, even with a restricted view.

Even British politicians waded into the backlash.

“Why hasn’t the government done more to protect our daughters from this rip-off merchant?” lawmaker Kevin Brennan asked the U.K.’s House of Commons  earlier this year.

But Miller’s argument is that even if Viagogo did introduce measures to cap how much ticket resellers can charge, it wouldn’t eradicate ticket scalping. 

“The secondary market has been around since live entertainment existed. In the days of the gladiators there were probably people selling tickets outside the stadium,” he says. “My point is that we didn’t we didn’t create any of it, we’re just trying to put a bit more order and security and safety around it.”

If people can’t resell on Viagogo—or if they’re disincentivized to do so because of price caps—Miller, an events industry veteran, firmly believes they will simply sidestep such services in favor of the black market.

“When you see other marketplaces that try to put restrictions in place, usually for the highest demand events, they don’t have any tickets at all,” he cautions.

Pointing to soccer in the U.K. as an example, he adds: “The black market is gigantic and that’s because there is a restriction on resale amongst the clubs.”

So he thinks of sites like Viagogo as a force for good, saving youngsters from the dangers of buying tickets off strangers on the streets or from some “sketchy website.” 

“We don’t think that’s a better route for fans, because there’s no recourse for them if something goes wrong,” he adds. 

Are fans to blame for ‘sensationalist pricing’?

Just because someone lists a ticket for Swift’s Eras Tour at over $35,000, it doesn’t mean the tickets are actually fetching that much. 

“You see a lot of sensationalist pricing, but they don’t sell because no one is willing to pay that,” Miller says, adding that the average Eras Tour ticket sold on Viagogo was in the region of $500 in the U.S. and £100 ($122) in the U.K., where demand was weaker.   

Still, even he was stunned by how much cash people were willing to splash to inch closer to Taylor Swift in the flesh. 

“We’ve seen thousands and thousands of dollars and pounds go for people sitting in really good seats,” he says, noting that tickets for groups of six in particular were a hot commodity. 

“No disrespect to Beyoncé, but it’s like in a different category,” he insists. “The prices are a reflection of just the enormous amount of demand that’s out there that we’ve never seen before—and I’ve been doing it for 20 years.”

Ultimately, if you’re looking for someone to blame for the sky-high price of tickets, it’s the fans paying an arm and a leg to see their favorite artists. At least, that’s what Miller suggests.

“The sellers will set a price that they think is the right market price, and the buyers are the ones that ultimately dictate what that price is—meaning that if they feel comfortable with that price and that location, they’ll buy it,” he says. “But prices drop when the buyers are not interested.”

As well as avoiding purchasing overpriced tickets and artificially driving up its value, another factor Miller thinks frustrated fans should consider is ticket holdbacks.

Essentially tickets are held back from the general public for friends, family, and those working closely to the artist.

“There’s no limit to how much they can take,” he explains. “So what’s unclear to the general fan is how many dates they’re going to do, you don’t know how many tickets are in each price band.” 

Research by the New York Attorney General’s Office revealed more than 50% of tickets to top shows between 2012 and 2015 were not released to the general public.

“So the odds are stacked against the general fan in a lot of cases and then what happens is when it goes on sale and there’s no availability, there’s frustration,” Miller tells Fortune . “The alternatives at that point are looking for tickets on the resale market, which tends to potentially drive prices up artificially because we’re unclear about how many tickets actually are in the market itself.” 

Miller says he’s an advocate for more transparency from the primary market on what’s available.

“It’s important that we educate people on what is taking place as much as possible and then hopefully, fans will demand more information upfront,” he says.

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Viagogo boss Cris Miller: Carrying on ticketing, despite the controversy

The resale website boss is cagey about talk of it profiting from dodgy touts, but does seem rattled by Labour’s plan to cap resale prices

C ris Miller is confident that his musical hero, Bob Marley, would have approved of how his company makes its profits. “I think after some education, yeah, he would,” says the global managing director of Viagogo, who has flown from New York to London as part of a mission to dispel what he sees as unfair myths about the ticketing company.

Viagogo is a website that facilitates the resale of tickets to concerts, theatres and sporting events, taking a slice of commission on each sale.

For ordinary consumers it can be a way to make their money back on gigs they are unable, for whatever reason, to attend. But legions of ticket touts – “professional resellers” in Miller’s terminology – also use Viagogo, sometimes employing questionable techniques to harvest tickets en masse before selling them on to passionate fans, often at eye-watering mark-ups .

The result has been years of negative publicity, denunciation by a British government minister , a bitter legal war with Ed Sheeran , not to mention dismal ratings on social media and the consumer reviews website Trustpilot.

Yet Viagogo has powered on regardless. Fans’ desperation to see the artists and sports teams they love has fuelled its continued success, including a strong recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Put simply, fans want tickets and Viagogo usually has some.

Now, though, the company is facing a potentially catastrophic threat to its business in the UK, which is its second-biggest market. Last month, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would cap ticket resale prices if he became prime minister.

While the amount of profit Viagogo makes is not made public – its parent company is based in the US corporate secrecy haven of Delaware – it takes commissions of about 25% or more on the price of every ticket it sells in the UK, where it dominates a market which had an estimated value of £350m in 2019.

If resale were to be capped, Viagogo’s UK business model could crumble, with seismic consequences for its long-held ambition to float on the stock market – the next step after it completed a $4bn merger with rival StubHub in 2021 .

In the face of this looming threat, the company has been splashing out on sponsored content and advertising with outlets it knows fans trust, such as the music website NME and sports website The Athletic.

Behind the scenes, Miller has been meeting Labour and Tory politicians, seeking to persuade them that though their manifesto pledge is “well-intentioned”, “price caps just don’t work”.

“What happens with price caps is that the highest-demand part of the market, where you might see prices go above the original price, will just get driven underground,” says Miller, 46, who has been with Viagogo since it was founded by US billionaire Eric Baker in 2006.

The apparent crux of Miller’s argument is that it provides a safe platform for ticket resale – an alternative to the street corner tout or illicit website that might simply rip fans off and run.

Viagogo says outright scams, often run via social media, have increased in countries that have restricted or banned resale, such as Australia or Ireland. It does not provide any data or hard evidence of this, but Miller insists it is “common knowledge”.

But two recent court cases have raised questions about the difference between scammers and some of the traders who have listed on Viagogo. “Fuck me. I have rinsed some twat on Via[gogo] today,” wrote one professional reseller, according to evidence at his trial, which saw two people convicted earlier this year – after two others had pleaded guilty – for their role in a £6.5m ticket fraud – initially exposed by the Observer .

“Not unusual though, is it?” his boss wrote back.

How does Miller react to the suggestion that exchanges like these betray the egregious practices used by some of the touts, who are, in effect, Viagogo’s business partners ?

“They’re not business partners. They supply tickets on the website,” he replies, hurriedly adding that Viagogo provided information to the investigation that led to their convictions.

The company condemned “bad actors” but Miller declines to answer when asked whether Viagogo may have benefited, however inadvertently, from the proceeds of their crimes. That probe kicked off when National Trading Standards took part in a raid on Viagogo’s London office in 2017 .

Miller, who is using a co-working space during his flying visit to the UK, also declines to disclose what proportion of Viagogo’s listings – of which there are “50m […] at any given time” have been posted by professional resellers – defined as people who sell more than 100 tickets a year .

He does, though, admit that Viagogo has made mistakes. High-profile gaffes include the reselling, at least twice , of tickets to events held in aid of cancer charities . A prolonged battle in 2018 with the Competition and Markets Authority ultimately saw Viagogo slapped with a court order . Then there was Miller’s own no-show at a select committee hearing , a highly unusual snub to parliament.

“We got that one wrong,” admits Miller, who was “empty-chaired” at the session as a gesture of political rebuke.

He is more bullish about his company’s adherence to consumer regulations, though. “The compliance thing is very, very important to me,” he says, adding that Viagogo goes “above and beyond” the CMA’s requirements.

What, then, of Viagogo listings that appear to stretch the limits of compliance? The BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, in Luton, is a good example. One seller is offering 56 tickets, another 24. Could this be an example of “speculative selling” , a fraudulent practice – which Viagogo says is banned – where touts list tickets they do not actually have and then seek to fulfil the order later on?

Might this indicate that the seller has ignored restrictions set by the original sales platform limiting purchases to two per person, and warning that breaches could see tickets cancelled?

Consumer laws state that Viagogo must warn customers if any such restrictions apply – but it does not. The company insisted its listings for Big Weekend comply with consumer law. “We go through and we take a look at all the fulfilment records of sellers,” says Miller.

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Sellers who let fans down do not get paid and can be banned from the website, he says, adding that Viagogo cannot spot every single dodgy listing straight away. Customers who are left empty-handed are offered a refund, he says, although it does not cover the cost of any accommodation or travel they may have booked, not to mention their disappointment.

According to Miller, in the long run Viagogo is a help to fans who would otherwise be shut out by event organisers, who are not transparent about how many tickets are available and often prioritise VIPs and sponsors.

But if the access that Viagogo offers usually comes with a higher price tag, does it not mean that it is the wealthiest who get through the turnstile, while the touts – and Viagogo – profit?

“Someone doesn’t have to be, like, poor to be a fan,” Miller says, adding that a proportion of tickets – he will not say how many – are sold at below face value, citing Beyoncé’s recent tour as an example.

For all the talk of offering access, or of consumer protection from scammers, Miller’s fallback defence of Viagogo’s business model is ultimately ideological: the dogma of free markets. “We believe that someone that buys a ticket has the right to resell,” he says.

Could fans not simply use “face value” websites such as Twickets? Wouldn’t improved ticketing technology solve the consumer protection risk that Viagogo claims is its priority?

Miller insists that any tech that restricts how, or for how much profit, someone chooses to transfer their ticket, is “anti-competitive” and ultimately “unfair to fans”.

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The cheapest way to travel is buying Troyka card . It is a plastic card you can top up for any amount at the machine or at the ticket office. With it every trip costs 38 RUB in the metro and 21 RUB in a bus. You can get the card in any ticket office. Be prepared to leave a deposit of 50 RUB. You can get it back returning the card to the cashier.

SamsungPay, ApplePay and PayPass cards.

One turnstile at every station accept PayPass and payments with phones. It has a sticker with the logos and located next to the security's cabin.

GETTING ORIENTED

At the platfrom you will see one of these signs.

It indicates the line you are at now (line 6), shows the direction train run and the final stations. Numbers below there are of those lines you can change from this line.

In trains, stations are announced in Russian and English. In newer trains there are also visual indication of there you are on the line.

To change lines look for these signs. This one shows the way to line 2.

There are also signs on the platfrom. They will help you to havigate yourself. (To the lines 3 and 5 in this case). 

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Maggie Rogers Extends 2024 Tour: How To Get Tickets

by Em Casalena April 12, 2024, 10:51 am

Maggie Rogers announced her upcoming Don’t Forget Me Tour back in February, and the “Alaska” singer has already added a second leg to the international trek. The tour (plus a Coldplay support tour) will take the singer/songwriter across the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, and Ireland. 

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Rogers will also bring a few special guests, including Ryan Beatty and The Japanese House. Tickets are still widely available for the upcoming tour, and we’ll help you secure your spot.

The Maggie Rogers 2024 Tour will begin on April 13 in New York City at Irving Plaza. The new final date will be November 2 in Inglewood, California at the Kia Forum with support from Ryan Beatty. The newly announced tour dates will span the US and Canada.

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Fans can get tickets to the Don’t Forget Me Tour through Rogers’ website . Ticketmaster will also be hosting a few different presales, many of which kick off on different dates. Check Ticketmaster to see when the presale launch for your chosen tour date goes live.

General on-sale for the second leg of the tour will begin on Friday, April 26. Rogers also announced on Instagram that she will be attempting to combat ticket fees by selling them in person at a number of venues during Box Office Week from April 13 to April 20. The tickets will be for select fall arena concert dates. Fans can learn more about this through her website .

Fans in Canada, Germany, Austria, and Ireland should browse Viagogo for tickets. Viagogo has great deals on tickets to sold-out shows outside of the US.

For everyone else, Stubhub might be the way to go if your chosen tour date sells out. Plus, you might find tickets available for a price lower than face value. It’s worth a shot, at least!

This is going to be a very magical tour, so get your tickets now to see Maggie Rogers live in 2024!

Maggie Rogers 2024 Tour Dates

April 13 — New York, NY — Irving Plaza

April 14 — Philadelphia, PA — Theatre of Living Arts

April 16 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club

April 19 — Chicago, IL — House of Blues

May 4 — Charlotte, NC — Lovin’ Life Festival

May 23 — San Diego, CA — Gallagher Square at Petco Park

May 24 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre (with The Japanese House)

May 27 — Morrison, CO — Red Rocks Amphitheatre (with The Japanese House)

May 28 — Morrison, CO — Red Rocks Amphitheatre (with The Japanese House)

May 31 — Irving, TX — The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory (with The Japanese House)

June 1 — The Woodlands, TX — The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman (with The Japanese House)

June 3 — Rogers, AR — Walmart AMP (with The Japanese House)

June 5 — Indianapolis, IN — Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park (with The Japanese House)

June 7 — Cincinnati, OH — The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park (with The Japanese House)

June 8 — Milwaukee, WI — BMO Pavilion (with The Japanese House)

June 9 — Sterling Heights, MI — Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre (with The Japanese House)

June 11 — Alpharetta, GA — Ameris Bank Amphitheatre (with The Japanese House)

June 14 — Manchester, TN — Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival

June 16 — Columbia, MD — Merriweather Post Pavilion (with The Japanese House)

June 19 — Raleigh, NC — Coastal Credit Union Music Park (with The Japanese House)

June 20 — Charleston, SC — Credit One Stadium (with The Japanese House)

June 22 — Miami, FL — FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park (with The Japanese House)

August 15 — Munich, DE — Olympiastadion (with Coldplay)

August 17 — Munich, DE — Olympiastadion (with Coldplay)

August 18 — Munich, DE — Olympiastadion (with Coldplay)

August 21 — Vienna, AT — Ernst-Happel-Stadion (with Coldplay)

August 22 — Vienna, AT — Ernst-Happel-Stadion (with Coldplay)

August 24 — Vienna, AT — Ernst-Happel-Stadion (with Coldplay)

August 25 — Vienna, AT — Ernst-Happel-Stadion (with Coldplay)

August 29 — Dublin, IE — Croke Park (with Coldplay)

August 30 — Dublin, IE — Croke Park (with Coldplay)

September 1 — Dublin, IE — Croke Park (with Coldplay)

September 2 — Dublin, IE — Croke Park (with Coldplay)

October 9 — Austin, TX — Moody Center (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 15 — Philadelphia, PA — Wells Fargo Center (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 17 — Boston, MA — TD Garden (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 19 — New York, NY — Madison Square Garden (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 22 — Toronto, ON — Coca-Cola Coliseum (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 24 — Chicago, IL — United Center (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 25 — Minneapolis, MN — Target Center (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 29 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

October 30 — Portland, OR — Moda Center (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

November 1 — San Francisco, CA — Chase Center (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

November 2 — Inglewood, CA — Kia Forum (with Ryan Beatty) (NEW!)

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