{"id":32107,"date":"2022-01-28T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=32107"},"modified":"2022-01-28T07:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:18:45","slug":"kanye-west-plans-to-tour-australia-in-2022-but-had-melbourne-stadium-show-date-foiled-by-football-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/kanye-west-plans-to-tour-australia-in-2022-but-had-melbourne-stadium-show-date-foiled-by-football-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Plans to Tour Australia in 2022, But Had Melbourne Stadium Show Date Foiled by Football Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kanye West - Heaven and Hell\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKWcAsT8Sqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/kanye-west-tickets\">Kanye West<\/a> is aiming to tour Australia this year, according to a new report, but a clash with the Australian Football League (AFL) is said to have disrupted his plans for a concert at a stadium in Melbourne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the Sydney Morning Herald, West \u2013 now legally known as Ye \u2013 had planned to perform at Melbourne\u2019s Marvel Stadium on March 21 as part of the tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, an opening fixture between the St Kilda and Collingwood AFL teams is scheduled for March 18, with the gap between those dates not providing adequate time for West\u2019s production crew to bump in for the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The newspaper reports that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201ctwo sources with knowledge of [West\u2019s] plans for an Australian tour\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said West\u2019s tour promoters, TEG, approached the AFL, who own Marvel Stadium, asking them to move the match to another venue. The Herald points out the likely alternative venue would have been the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The AFL reportedly declined the request. The Herald\u2019s sources claim the rapper will now perform at the venue before the AFL season starts, \u201cmost likely\u201d the weekend beginning March 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The arena, in Melbourne\u2019s Docklands area, has been named Marvel Stadium since 2018, after a negotiation between its operators and the Walt Disney Company. Taylor Swift performed at the venue in 2018 as part of her Australian tour, while U2 performed there the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">West last performed in Australia in 2014 as part of his \u2018Yeezus\u2019 tour. On that run, he performed at Melbourne\u2019s Rod Laver Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yesterday (January 27), West announced he would release new album \u2018DONDA 2\u2019 next month, also revealing it was executive produced by Future. The album is slated to arrive on February 22.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West is aiming to tour Australia this year, according to a new report, but a clash with the Australian Football League (AFL) is said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32109,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107\/revisions\/32109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}