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• Oct 20 2024 The O2 Arena London, England Add time Add time Add times
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• Oct 25 2024 Forum di Assago Assago, Italy Add time Add time Add times
• Oct 26 2024 Palazzo dello Sport Rome, Italy Add time Add time Add times
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• Nov 01 2024 Papp László Sportaréna Budapest, Hungary Add time Add time Add times
• Nov 02 2024 Fortuna aréna Hradec Králové, Czechia Add time Add time Add times
• Nov 03 2024 Atlas Arena Łódź, Poland Add time Add time Add times
• Nov 06 2024 Metro Areena Espoo, Finland Add time Add time Add times
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• Nov 09 2024 Oslo Spektrum Oslo, Norway Add time Add time Add times
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• Nov 12 2024 Rockhal Main Hall Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Add time Add time Add times
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• Nov 17 2024 La Nueva Cubierta de Leganés Leganés, Spain Add time Add time Add times
• Nov 20 2024 Liederhalle Beethovensaal Stuttgart, Germany Add time Add time Add times
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• Nov 23 2024 Adidas Arena Paris, France Add time Add time Add times
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• Sleeping Giant
• Caught in a Web
• Answering the Call
• Solitary Shell
• About to Crash (Reprise)
• Losing Time/Grand Finale
• Pull Me Under
• The Count of Tuscany
• Amazing Grace
• Act II: Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On
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• Act II: Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On ( 584 )
• Take the Time ( 529 )
• Under a Glass Moon ( 528 )

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DREAM THEATER Dreamsonic 2023 US Tour Setlist Playlist

Recent setlist playlist of Dream Theater, Devin Townsend and Animals As Leaders.on the DreamSonic US Tour in June & July 2023. #DreamTheater #DevinTownsend #AnimalsAsLeaders #SetlistGuy @DreamTheater @DevinTownsend @AnimalsAsLeaders @SetlistGuy

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Images, words & beyond tour 2017, the astonishing tour 2016, 30th anniversary tour 2015, breaking the fourth wall live 2014, along for the ride tour 2014, a dramatic turn of events tour 2011, black clouds & silver linings tour 2009, chaos in motion tour 2007, score live at radio city music hall, octavarium tour 2005, train of thought tour 2004, tourbulence tour 2002.

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21 Savage Concert Setlists: What to Expect at His American Dream Tour

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21 Savage is living the dream and spreading the wealth with his massive 2024 American Dream Tour . Pulling its name from his recent third album american dream , which arrived in January 2024, the latest 21 Savage tour setlist will undoubtedly serve up several live debuts from his latest chart-topping effort.

The American Dream Tour will also mark 21’s first North American solo run in five years. Any fans unable to get a glimpse of the Grammy-winning rapper during the It’s All a Blur Tour, his 2023 jaunt with Drake , will now have a lot of opportunities to see him with 30 dates spread across this spring.

Below, take a look at a typical 21 Savage tour setlist and find more about the “X” rapper’s live history before you go runnin’ to the American Dream Tour .

21 Savage Tour Stats

Current tour: American Dream Tour (2024)

Set time: On his 2023 European tour, 21 Savage usually went on stage between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m., though set times vary.

Length of average 21 Savage show: 1 hour, 10 minutes (on 2023 European tour)

Past tours:

• It’s All a Blur (with Drake ) (2023)
• The Off-Season Tour (with J. Cole ) (2021)
• I Am > I Was Tour (2019)
• Numb the Pain Tour (2017)
• Issa Tour (2017)

21 Savage Discography:

• The Slaughter Tape (2015)
• Free Guwop EP (with Sonny Digital ) (2015)
• Slaughter King (2015)
• Savage Mode EP (with Metro Boomin ) (2016)
• Savage Season (2016)
• Issa Album (2017)
• Without Warning (with Metro Boomin and Offset ) (2017)
• i am > i was (2018)
• Savage Mode II (with Metro Boomin ) (2020)
• Spiral: From the Book of Saw Soundtrack (2021)
• Her Loss (with Drake) (2022)
• american dream (2024)

21 Savage’s Popular Songs:

• “Bank Account”
• “Rich Flex” (with Drake )
• “Glock in My Lap”

21 Savage’s Recent Opening Acts:

• 21 Lil Harold

21 Savage Concert Setlist Info

21 Savage has maintained an impressively prolific clip between his solo work and consistent guest features since launching his music career over a decade ago. Following 2024’s american dream , the Atlanta rapper has added several potential setlist additions with 14 tracks hitting the Billboard Hot 100, including the Top 10 singles “redrum” and “née-nah.”

Below, you can sample an average 21 Savage setlist from his solo headlining tour across Europe in 2023. Check back as the American Dream Tour kicks off in May to see updated setlist information.

21 Savage 2023 European Tour Setlist:

• Glock in My Lap
• Don’t Come Out the House
• Who Want Smoke?? ( Nardo Wick cover)
• Walk Em Down (Don’t Kill Civilians)
• EA ( Young Nudy cover)
• 10 Freaky Girls ( Metro Boomin cover)
• ball w/o You
• Ocean Drive
• out for the night
• Privileged Rappers
• Mr. Right Now
• Spin Bout U
• Peaches & Eggplants ( Young Nudy cover)
• TOPIA TWINS ( Travis Scott cover)
• Creepin’ ( Metro Boomin cover)
• m y . l i f e ( J. Cole cover)
• Rich Nigga Shit
• rockstar ( Post Malone cover)
• Major Distribution
• Jimmy Cooks ( Drake cover)
• Knife Talk ( Drake cover)
• Bank Account

Source: Setlist.fm.

How to Get Tickets for 21 Savage Concerts

21 Savage tickets for the 2024 American Dream Tour can be purchased via Ticketmaster. Standard Tickets and VIP packages are still available for many dates.

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9 Songs On Our Dream Setlist For I.M’s Off The Beat World Tour

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We can’t believe we can actually say these words: Monsta X’s I.M is heading on a solo world tour! Named after I.M’s recent album, the Off The Beat tour kicks off in May in Seoul before heading to Europe, North America, and Asia.

With nine years as an idol under his belt, I.M has a seriously rich discography to play with for the Off The Beat setlist. Whether it’s from his three solo albums, countless singles, or the dozens of tracks he’s worked on as part of Monsta X , Changkyun has got his work cut out for him.

And here’s where we come in! We made I.M’s job just a little easier (not really, but let us have this), by suggesting nine tracks we’d love to see on the Off The Beat tour! We’ll see you there!

‘Overdrive’

First up is the title track from I.M’s second solo album, Overdrive . We’ve basically not stopped thinking about seeing this IRL since we saw I.M’s promo performances. ‘Overdrive’ just encapsulates Changkyun’s stage persona so well.

The first Monsta X song on our list! ‘Autobahn’ is a certified bop, written, composed, and produced by I.M. The Honey POP was lucky enough to see Monsta X perform this at KPopFlex back in 2022, and we basically haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

It’s been nearly a month since we first heard Off The Beat’s title track, and we haven’t recovered yet. Hearing that Latin-pop guitar and Changkyun’s falsetto IRL is a need, not a want.

We think it’s criminal how I.M has treated one of our favorite Off The Beat b-sides. He actually wrote this before Overdrive came out, and then forgot about it?! It’s time to give ‘Bust It’ the justice it deserves by adding it to the Off The Beat setlist!

We could hardly leave out I.M’s title track from his debut album, Duality , could we? And what would our reaction be if we got to see this song live? Well, “God d*mn it, I like it.”

‘Crescendo’

Taken from Monsta X’s most recent comeback (*cries in Monbebe*), you’d probably associate ‘Crescendo’ with Jooheon before Changkyun. However, witnessing I.M declare “It’s been a long time, I to the M, the only one sign,” all over the world feels like something we need.

In case it wasn’t already clear, there basically isn’t a genre that I.M hasn’t experimented with. We’d love to see jazz-influenced ‘Habit’ in person, and could even see this being a contender for the encore.

We have nothing to say except the idea of the crowds singing these lyrics out loud made us giggle. Next question, your honor.

I.M has so many iconic lines in Monsta X’s discography, it’s hard to say which we wanna hear the most. “Eat this?” “I want you to eat me like a main dish?” Why is it always about eating…?

Anyway. In the end, we settled on ‘Gambler.’ Adding this to the setlist? Well, that would be “Hot as °F.”

Our Love For ‘Small Enough’ Is Anything But Small

So there are our thoughts, but we have to wait until 25th May for the real thing! I.M will be touring across 18 cities from May until the end of September, and we already know this will be a show we don’t want to miss.

Tickets are on sale now (we already got ours!), so be quick if you don’t wanna miss out. And check out all the dates and cities below!

Are you heading to I.M’s Off The Beat world tour? What songs are you hoping to see? Let us know on Twitter,  @TheHoneyPOP , or on  Instagram  and  Facebook .

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HOUSTON (AP) — Time marches on and all good things must come to an end. But don’t tell that to  The Rolling Stones .

What many believe to be the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world showed no signs of slowing down anytime soon as they kicked off their latest tour Sunday night at Houston’s NRG Stadium.

The Stones have been touring for more than 60 years. Frontman Mick Jagger and lead guitarist Keith Richards are both 80, with guitarist Ronnie Wood not far behind at 76. Their tour is being sponsored in part by AARP.

But during a vibrant two-hour show, the Stones played with the energy of band that was on tour for the first time.

“It’s great to be back in the Lone Star State,” Jagger told the packed stadium, filled with longtime fans, many wearing faded concert shirts from previous tours.

Jagger often strutted up and down the stage with seemingly boundless energy while Richards and Wood played many familiar guitar riffs beloved by fans. Jagger often led the audience in sing-alongs.

“The energy level is up and it’s always up with them. The age doesn’t show,” Dale Skjerseth, the Stones’ production director, said Friday before the concert.

The Stones have hit the road to support the release of their latest album,  “Hackney Diamonds,”  the band’s first record of original music since 2005.

Houston was the first stop on the band’s 16-city tour across the U.S. and Canada. Other cities on the tour include New Orleans, Philadelphia and Vancouver, British Columbia. The tour ends on July 17 in Santa Clara, California.

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After playing “Beast of Burden,” Jagger said that concertgoers in Houston had voted to include it on the set list.

“You can’t go wrong with that,” one man in the audience could be heard screaming.

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In Las Vegas last Friday, I watched a Godzilla-sized puppy give a tongue bath to some 18,000 people. The visual—accompanied by laughter, slack jaws, and modest plumes of vaporized weed—arrived roughly three hours into a performance by Phish, the storied band, which has now been around for 40 years. At the moment in question, the band was launching into a capella scatting and mouth noising—what fans recognize as a vocal jam . And of course we were at the Sphere, a glorious, $2.3 billion arena that asks and answers the questions: What if the Earth had a moon that was made entirely of screens? And what if we took a spaceship there and grooved on it?

There is a lot to say about the visuals projected onto the walls of this place and its seeming bioluminescence. But trying to describe what happens inside the Sphere when the lights go down has a lot in common with recounting a dream or the play-by-play of a psychedelic experience: It easily veers toward the self-indulgent, tedious, and cliché. How did it feel, man? Honestly, it was tight . Like, really tight. I scrawled some phrases in my notepad as the show was under way:

Like being inside a planetarium while it’s burning Audience attacked by jazz UFOs Floating, non-playable Sims characters flopping around the ocean floor

But that’s the obvious stuff. Although Phish was doing a commendable job dazzling our rods and cones with a 366-foot spectacle that the Sphere alone can deliver, they had cracked the code on something much more important: the venue’s sound system, which is equipped with wave-field-synthesis spatial-audio technology. (That’s a fancy way of saying that individual sounds can be projected to pinpointed locations in the room, from any direction.) Night one was a touch sonically disorienting. But by night two, the foursome was in sync with the building itself, energetically bobbing and weaving through orchestrated set pieces and diffuse, bowel-shaking improvisations. (Perhaps my brain’s temporal lobe just needed to acclimate.)

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Phish, led by the frontman and guitarist Trey Anastasio, squeezed every drop out of this technology, which meant using the venue’s 1,586 fixed loudspeakers to bounce audio all around the room. What might feel like a gimmick in the hands of most acts hits different for Phish, whose music, as the critic Amanda Petrusich once aptly noted , unfurls “like a drop of food coloring squeezed into a bowl of water.” Anastasio’s lilting arpeggios wound around my head in Section 204 before skittering off toward the rounded heavens of the 400-level; an errant cymbal from the drummer, Jon Fishman, splashed at my left ear and disappeared, replaced by a rich grand-piano chord until, seconds later, a ride cymbal careened into my right ear as the jam reached a crescendo. It was sensory overload—but a good kind. The band, their production-design crew, and the Sphere itself had created a very specific recreational experience, like one of those immersive NASA flight-simulation modules; instead of flying a rocketship, it simulated doing just the right amount of psychoactive drugs during a concert.

Phish’s second night was my third experience inside the Sphere—which is arguably more Sphere consumption in a 12-month period than would be recommended for one’s limbic system. My first excursion , to see U2, stemmed from a deep, almost primal impulse to wash my eyeballs in 16K resolution. I wondered what the Sphere might tell us about screens—not just the 360-foot ones, but also the ones we keep in our pockets. U2 was, to a degree, ancillary to the experience: I wanted LED oblivion, and I got it. This accomplished, I expected never to return. What more could the Sphere offer me?

But I am weak. My Cro-Magnon brain thirsted for another pixel-induced dopamine hit. Plus, maybe I missed something. The Sphere positions itself as the “future of immersive entertainment”; perhaps there will one day be many Spheres dotting the globe. (A Madison Sphere Garden for New York?) Is this place an expensive laboratory to turn middle-aged Phishheads with substantial disposable income into crash-test dummies for this future? Is it just a residency for bands to relive the glory days? What is the Sphere for?

Phish’s four-night run offered hints. During “Wading in the Velvet Sea,” a slow, emotional ballad that kicked off the second night’s encore, the Sphere cycled through and then filled with photos of the band throughout its 40 years—in college; then awkwardly cradling their newborn children, playing to sold-out crowds, goofing off backstage, looking impossibly young; and then, just a touch more like a college-faculty jazz band. Dads who shred. Online, an observer quipped that it was Phish’s “Eras Tour” moment, a reference to Taylor Swift’s pop-culture mega-event . The band played a stacked set list each night, all but guaranteeing that those who came for the entire run would hear most of the band’s most famous songs live. But their stay was limited, ensuring that Phish’s Sphere term couldn’t be categorized as a last waltz, self-elegy, or living-museum situation.

The band appeared to treat it as the opposite: a new artistic frontier. The show’s director, Abigail Rosen Holmes, had worked with the longtime lighting director Chris Kuroda and the multimedia design firm Moment Factory to build out a series of set pieces for the band that would work alongside Phish’s usual process of written songs that evolve into twisty, surprising improvisations. Unlike U2, who played a similar list of songs each night, set to the same visualizations, Phish’s challenge was essentially to get the $2 billion architectural marvel to jam in sync with the band. In interviews, Anastasio described a painstaking process of planning and rehearsal, layering in Easter eggs and brain-melting visuals that might be enough to make a Phish diehard experiencing their 300th show feel like they’re seeing something new.

Judging by the exclamations from two exultant, gyrating 20-somethings in the row in front of me on the first night, I’d argue the band succeeded. After assuring me that he was, in fact, not “tripping balls,” one of the men, who’d spent most of the second set alternating between staring agog at the building’s roof and yelling “YESSSSSSS” to nobody in particular, exclaimed, “This was like the first time again.”

On night two, I sat in the 300-level, just above Rosen Holmes, Kuroda, and the dozen or so humans staffing various screens and soundboards. Their setup looked like a small mission-control hub preparing to launch a rocket, which, in a manner of speaking, it was. I watched the crew’s shadows from behind all night as they twirled knobs, tweaked sliders, and punched screens, bending this ridiculous building to the whims of the band onstage playing songs, some of which were written in a Vermont dorm room 40 years ago. At the end of the evening, during Anastasio’s dazzlingly complex and orchestrated “You Enjoy Myself,” the notes stopped and the house lights rose. This was the moment when time stood still and a massive dog appeared before us, closed its eyes, and pressed its tongue against the Sphere for a taste of its glorious pixels.

I’m not sure it was meant to be the evening’s revelatory moment, but I found it as such. I don’t know whether the Sphere is the future of live music—it’s very expensive, both to build and attend, and the venue’s path to profitability isn’t clear at all. But I do know this: The Sphere is a mountain, a rentable peak that a rarefied stable of performers can gain access to when they’ve climbed all the others available to them.

That’s a subjective descriptor, of course. A Grammy could be a mountain; so could a run at a venue like Madison Square Garden or Red Rocks, a sold-out tour, a Super Bowl halftime show, or a concept album. Some mountains are bigger than others. A musician friend of mine recently described Taylor Swift’s dominating success as akin to beating a game so thoroughly that she needed to go out and invent her own (thus the Eras Tour).

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The Sphere, more than anything else, is a challenge for a specific kind of artist. “I mean, I can’t imagine what Beyoncé could do in a place like this,” Anastasio told CBS News last week. “She should come.” There’s so little overlap between Phish and Beyoncé—musically, stylistically, culturally—that seeing the two in the same sentence is a bit jarring. But both acts do seem to share a similar, relentless creative work ethic. Their mountains may look different, but the performers have things in common: an intense attention to detail and craft, an innate drive to scale and push their art ever upward. (See Beyoncé’s genius, radical 2018 Coachella performance , for example.)

Eventually, every artist runs out of mountains to climb, or—at the very least—needs a little help finding the high-test 92-octane fuel that can successfully power the creative engine that idles in their brain. Enter the Sphere: a mountain with no sharp edges. A garish, glowing Mount Everest in the middle of the desert.

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Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics

A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison in sessions for the albums Help! and Rubber Soul, which has spent the last 50 years lying in an attic, is to go up for auction alongside other memorabilia items such as a handwritten concert setlist by Kurt Cobain, a book of handwritten lyrics by Tupac Shakur and a Fendi dress worn by Amy Winehouse.

The 12-string acoustic guitar, a Hootenanny model made by Bavarian firm Framus in the early 1960s, was primarily played by Lennon and also appears in the movie Help!, used to perform You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away. The studio version of that song also features the guitar, as well as Help!’s title track, It’s Only Love and I’ve Just Seen a Face. Harrison, meanwhile, used it to play the rhythm guitar part on Norwegian Wood, and it appears on another Rubber Soul song, Girl.

Darren Julien, co-founder and executive director of Julien’s Auctions who are offering the item, said: “Finding this remarkable instrument is like finding a lost Rembrandt or Picasso, and it still looks and plays like a dream.”

He said the current owners – who had forgotten they owned it – had originally been gifted the guitar by Gordon Waller, from 1960s pop stars Peter and Gordon. That duo had hits with Lennon-McCartney songs such as A World Without Love, which topped the US and UK charts.

Julien travelled to the UK to verify the guitar at the house it was being stored in, and also rescued the guitar’s original case which had been thrown in a bin. Aided by Beatles historians Andy Babiuk and Danny Bennett, Julien said he had confirmed the instrument’s provenance. “The woodgrain of a guitar is like a fingerprint in that no two guitars are the same,” he said. “Not only is the woodgrain a perfect match to the guitar that John and George are playing but so is the pickguard which can be exactly photo-matched. Because the guitar has been undisturbed for approximately five decades, it is in the exact condition in terms of aesthetics that it was when John and George played it.”

In 2015, Julien’s Auctions sold another Lennon guitar: a J-160E Gibson acoustic guitar stolen from him and unwittingly bought by a musician in the late 1960s. It fetched a price of $2.41m (£1.6m at the time). The newly discovered Framus guitar has a sales estimate of $600,000-$800,000 (£485,000-£647,000) but Julien argues it could sell for more than the Gibson, as it is “historically more significant”. The company has also previously sold a drum kit used by Ringo Starr for $2.2m, as well as a copy of the White Album owned by him.

Also going up for auction on 29 and 30 May, online and at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe, is another piece of Lennon history: the telephone he used during the Bed-Ins for Peace, protests against the Vietnam war made by him and wife Yoko Ono.

As well as Beatles memorabilia and aforementioned other items, fans can bid on a guitar played by Adam Clayton at U2’s recent concert residency at Las Vegas’s Sphere, plus his stage outfit; Onitsuka Tiger trainers worn by Freddie Mercury; a Versace ensemble worn by Tina Turner on her Wildest Dreams tour; a jacket worn by Michael Jackson in 1984 during the Victory tour with the Jackson brothers; a cap worn by Angus Young of AC/DC on stage; a jacket worn by Joan Jett in the Dirty Deeds music video; and a guitar played by Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe, emblazoned with “Girls Girls Girls” on the reverse.

Highlights from the auction will be on display from 23-29 April in London, at the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly Circus.

The Lennon/Harrison guitar discovery comes after another long-lost Beatles instrument, a Höfner bass owned by Paul McCartney, was returned to him in February after it had been stolen in 1972.

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A fter a successful sold-out ‘The Dream Show 2’ Singapore concert in May 2023, NCT Dream returns to the city-state in June 2024 with a two-day concert for ‘The Dream Show 3’ tour.

Here’s a win for Singapore-based NCTzens (fans of the K-pop boy group NCT). One of NCT’s sub-units NCT Dream is set to perform in Singapore on 29 and 30 June 2024 for their latest tour ‘The Dream Show 3’.

On February 20, NCT Dream announced a list of dates for their upcoming world tour The Dream Show 3′ on their Instagram page . Kicking off in Seoul, South Korea, from 2 to 4 May 2024, this tour will take the seven-member group to cities like Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Jarkarta, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Manila, in addition to Singapore. The post also teased other stops in Latin America, the USA, and Europe, with the cities to be revealed on 8 May 2024.

Details on NCT Dream’s ‘The Dream Show 3’ concert in Singapore: Ticket prices, venue, song setlist, and more

NCT Dream will be performing in Singapore across two days for the first time on 29 and 30 June 2024.

The Lotte Duty Free ambassadors will perform at the Singapore Indoor Stadium again, as with their previous concert ‘The Dream Show 2’. ‘The Dream Show 3’ will also likely see NCT Dream perform without Renjun as he is on hiatus and will temporarily not participate in all activities until further notice.

Ticket prices start from S$188. VIP standing or seated are priced at S$348 per pax.

*VIP standing and seated entitlement includes:

• Access to Soundcheck Party
• VIP Laminate & Lanyard
• Exclusive Postcard Set of 7 Members
• Merchandise Booth Priority Lane
• VIP Standing gets priority entry to standing pens (no designated areas within standing pens)

Fans who have signed up for “NCTzen DREAM” Membership (GL) Pre-Sale on Weverse will be able to grab their tickets first on May 2 (Thursday), 12pm to 11:59pm. Live Nation members can secure tickets during the Live Nation presale on May 3 (Friday), 12pm to 11:59pm. Tickets for the general public will go on sale on May 4 (Saturday), from 12pm onwards via Ticketmaster .

For the music setlist, expect NCT Dream to perform hit songs like Glitch Mode, Chewing Gum, Beatbox, Broken Melodies, and ISTJ. The latter two are from their latest third full-length record ISTJ.

Who is NCT Dream?

NCT Dream is a sub-unit of NCT, abbreviated from “Neo Culture Technology”, a 26-member boy group created by SM Entertainment. Other NCT sub-units include NCT 127, NCT U, and WAYV. NCT Dream, a septet consisting of members Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle, and Jisung, debuted in August 2016 with their single ‘Chewing Gum’.

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