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Apia Good Times Tour Reveals 2017 Line-up

by Paul Cashmere on January 30, 2017

in News,Noise Pro

The Black Sorrows with Vika and Linda Bull, Colin Hay of Men At Work, Mental As Anything and Deborah Conway will lap Australia for the Apia Good Times Tour of 2017.

The Apia Good Times tour will start in Darwin on May 17 and head to Adelaide, Perth, Bunbury, Melbourne, Bendigo, Geelong, Newcastle, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Tweed Heads, Sydney, Thirroul, Canberra, Launceston and Hobart.

Combined, the 2017 Apia Good Times tour artists have had over 50 hit singles with Mental As Anything leading the list with 20, Joe Camilleri with 17 between The Black Sorrows and Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Deborah Conway with eight as a solo artist and with Do-Re-Mi and Colin Hay’s Men At Work achieving seven.

Mental As Anything Concert Mental As Anything performs at Memo in St Kilda on Friday 17 June 2016.

Apia Good Times Tour 2017

Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin, NT
Tickets available from the Box Office, 08 8980 3333 and www.yourcentre.com.au

Friday, 19 May 2017
Adelaide Entertainment Centre (Theatre Mode), Adelaide, SA
Tickets available from Ticketek – 132 849 and www.ticketek.com

Saturday, 20 May 2017
Perth Concert Hall, Perth, WA
Tickets available from Ticketmaster – 136 100 and
www.ticketmaster.com.au – and – Perth Concert Hall Box Office,
08 9231 9999 and www.perthconcerthall.com.au

Sunday, 21 May 2017*
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Bunbury, WA
Tickets available from the BREC Box Office, 1300 661 272 and www.bunburyentertainment.com
*4pm matinee show

Friday, 26 May 2017
Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Vic
Tickets available from Ticketmaster – 136 100 and
www.ticketmaster.com.au and Arts Centre Melbourne –
1300 182 183 and www.artscentremelbourne.com.au

Saturday, 27 May 2017
Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, Vic
Tickets available from the Box office, 03 5434 6100 and www.gotix.com.au

Sunday, 28 May 2017
Costa Hall, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Geelong, Vic
Tickets available from GPAC – 03 5225 1200 and www.gpac.org.au

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Civic Theatre, Newcastle, NSW
Tickets available from Ticketek – 132 849 and www.ticketek.com
-and- the Box Office, 02 4929 1977 and www.civictheatrenewcastle.com.au

Thursday, 1 June 2017
Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, Qld
Tickets available from the Box office, 1300 655 299 and www.empiretheatre.com.au

Friday, 2 June 2017
QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, Qld
Tickets available from the Box Office, 136 246 and www.qpac.com.au

Saturday, 3 June 2017
Twin Towns Services Club, Tweed Heads, NSW
Tickets available from the Box office, 1800 014 014 and www.twintowns.com.au

Friday, 9 June 2017
Enmore Theatre, Enmore/Sydney, NSW
Tickets available from Ticketek – 132 849 and www.ticketek.com

Saturday, 10 June 2017
Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul, NSW
Tickets available from Ticketmaster – 136 100 and www.ticketmaster.com.au

Sunday, 11 June 2017
Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra, ACT
Tickets available from the Box Office, 02 6275 2700 and www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au

Friday, 16 June 2017
Princess Theatre, Launceston, TAS
Tickets available from the Box Office, 03 6323 3666 and www.theatrenorth.com.au

Saturday, 17 June 2017
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre, Hobart, TAS
Tickets available from Tixtas – 1300 795 257 and www.tixtas.com.au

Colin Hay photo by Ros O'Gorman Noise11.com Colin Hay photo by Ros O’Gorman

Ticketing details

Tickets to the Apia Good Times Tour go on sale to the general public at 10.00am, local times, on Monday, 6 February 2017.

Apia Members pre-sale: Customers will have the opportunity to access pre-sale tickets from 10.00am on Wednesday, 1 February until 10.00am on Friday, 3 February.

Frontier Members pre-sale: Wednesday, 1 February from 2.00pm until Thursday, 2 February at 2.00pm (or earlier if pre-sale allocations exhausted)

Ticketek Members / Venue pre-sales: Thursday, 2 February from 10.00am until Friday, 3 February at 10.00am (or earlier if pre-sale allocations exhausted)

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