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Coldplay announce mammoth 2016 world stadium tour: London, Manchester and Glasgow in the UK

Coldplay announce mammoth 2016 world stadium tour: London, Manchester and Glasgow in the UK

Coldplay have today announced the Latin American and European legs of next year’s A Head Full Of Dreams tour, with 20 stadium shows confirmed across 14 countries in Europe and Latin America. A Head Full Of Dreams is Coldplay’s seventh album, its ebullient first single, Adventure of a Lifetime, is available to stream and download now.
 
coldplay world tour 2016 balloonThis is the band’s first world tour since the 2011/12 Mylo Xyloto tour, which was seen by more than three million people in five continents. It includes their first Latin American shows since 2010, with the band’s first ever dates in Peru.
 
A Head Full Of Dreams (out 4th December) is the vibrant follow-up to 2014’s fragile and lovelorn Ghost Stories, Coldplay’s sixth consecutive worldwide chart topper. The band chose not to tour Ghost Stories and headed straight back into the studio to record A Head Full Of Dreams.
 
Says Coldplay’s Chris Martin: “I think that not going on tour with Ghost Stories was one of the best decisions we ever made, because it gave us such pent-up energy in the studio and completely reignited everyone’s desire to go around the world and play music. A Head Full Of Dreams was written as a record to be performed live. We can’t wait to do that.”
 
The dates are as follows:

Thursday, March 31                   Estadio Unico de La Plata, Buenos Aires, AR
Sunday, April 3                          Estadio Nacional, Santiago, CL
Tuesday, April 5                        Estadio Nacional, Lima, PE
Thursday, April 7                       Allianz Parque, Sao Paulo, BR
Sunday, April 10                        Maracana, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Wednesday, April 13                 Estadio El Campin, Bogota, CO
Saturday, April 16                      Foro Sol, Mexico City, MX
 
Tuesday, May 24                       Stade Charles-Ehrmann, Nice, FR
Thursday, May 26                      Estadi Olimpic, Barcelona, ES
Wednesday, June 1                   Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, DE
Saturday, June 4                       Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
Tuesday, June 7                        Hampden Park, Glasgow, UK
Saturday, June 11                     Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich CH
Thursday, June 16                     Wembley Stadium, London, UK
Saturday, June 18                     Wembley Stadium, London, UK
Thursday, June 23                     Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, NL
Wednesday, June 29                 Olympiastadion, Berlin, DE
Friday, July 1                            Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, DE
Sunday, July 3              Friends Arena, Stockholm, SE
Tuesday, July 5             Telia Parken, Copenhagen, DK
 
There will be an exclusive UK ticket pre-sale at 9.30am GMT on Thursday 26th November for anyone who pre-orders (or has already pre-ordered) the A Head Full Of Dreams album in any format from Amazon.co.uk, before 11.59pm on Monday 23rd November.
 
Tickets for the UK/European shows go on general sale on Friday 27th November at 9.30am GMT (UK shows) and 10am CET (all others) via Ticketmaster. Ticket details for the Latin American shows can be found at Coldplay.com.
 
Further shows, including the North American leg of the tour, will be announced at a later date.
 

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