American rock band Journey bring 50th anniversary tour to Belfast!

Tickets go on sale this week 👇

Guitarist Neal Schon performs with Journey on the Main Stage at Download Festival
Author: Emma DicksonPublished 27th Feb 2024
Last updated 27th Feb 2024

Legendary American rock band Journey are bringing their 50th Anniversary Freedom Tour to the UK & Ireland later this year, including Belfast’s SSE Arena on 4 November and 3Arena Dublin on 5 November.

Main support on all dates comes from the acclaimed Illinois power-pop quartet CHEAP TRICK, who are also celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year.

Journey originally formed in San Francisco in 1973 and soon became one of the biggest bands in America, with nineteen Top 40 Billboard hits in the US, and huge global hits such as ‘Don’t Stop Believin’, ‘Open Arms’, ‘Faithfully’, ‘Any Way You Want It’ and ‘Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)’, taking them to over 100 million album sales worldwide.

The band – featuring lead guitarist Neal Schon, keyboardist Jonathan Cain and vocalist Arnel Pineda – released their sixteenth and most recent studio album, entitled Freedom, in 2022 and embarked on their 50th Anniversary tour in 2023.

Neal Schon comments, "It's been too long since we've seen you all! We are all very excited to be coming back to the UK & Ireland and playing with our good friends Cheap Trick, who I’ve known and played with since the 70s. It’s going to be a great party for all!"

CHEAP TRICK are loved around the world for their instantly identifiable and hugely influential union of wit, melody, powerhouse pop hooks and razor-sharp riffs. With global hits such as ‘Surrender’, ‘The Flame’, ‘Dream Police’ and ‘I Want You To Want Me’, they released their most recent studio album In Another World in 2021 to global acclaim.

How to get tickets:

Tickets for Journey with Special Guests CHEAP TRICK live in Belfast and Dublin go on sale Friday 1 March at 10am from ticketmaster.ie

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