X Factor Live Announces Initial Tour Dates & Ticket Details
Monday, 30 August 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
The X Factor Live tour is to return to UK arenas next year with 18 shows already announced for February, March and April 2011.
The 2010 search for the UK’s biggest undiscovered pop talent has already begun with TV reality show X Factor hitting our screens just last weekend. With the competition running up to Christmas, another live arena tour has been planned for the New Year, giving where fans the opportunity to watch the 2010 finalists, as well as other memorable contestants, perform live.
As in previous years of the competition, contestants are judged on appearance, personality, stage presence and dance routines by pop music mogul Simon Cowell and his judging panel minions. Whittling down the thousands of popstar hopefuls week by week, via a torrent of abuse in the process, contestants eventually face a public vote on their live studio performances to determine whether or not the wannabes are deemed worthy of a £1 million record deal as well as a massive amount of publicity from the press.
With the final of the X Factor competition usually taking place just before Christmas, in recent years the winner could almost garantee a UK Chirstmas Number One song too. However, as we saw last year, times have changed after a huge online campaign was launched to stop Simon Cowell’s X Factor winner from dominating the festive countdown.
With the campaign organisers choosing Rage Against The Machine’s rap-metal anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ to compete against the X Factor’s track, the support gathered by the campaign propelled Rage’s classic track to the Christmas Number One, leaving last year’s X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the unexpected Number Two spot. Will we see the same drama unfold this year?
Initial shows for X Factor live are below, however more shows look set to be announced soon:
February 2011
19th LG Arena, Birmingham (2.30pm)
19th LG Arena, Birmingham (7.30pm)
22nd The O2, Dublin
25th Odyssey Arena, Belfast
March 2011
1st Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
5th Wembley Arena, London (2.30pm)
5th Wembley Arena, London (7.30pm)
12th MEN Arena, Manchester (2.30pm)
12th MEN Arena, Manchester (7.30pm)
15th Brighton Centre, Brighton
22nd Trent FM Arena, Nottingham
26th Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle (2.30pm)
26th Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle (7.30pm
27th Exhibition Centre, Aberdeen (2.30pm)
27th Exhibition Centre, Aberdeen (7.30pm)
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