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 General Info
John Mayer - Battle Studies Tour
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Doors - 6.30pm
Orianthi (Support Act) - 7.30pm - 8.15pm
Interval - 8.15pm - 8.45pm
John Mayer - 8.45pm - 10.45pm approx
Please note, running times are subject to change without notice.
John Mayer will be bringing, in song, his latest on love, heartbreak and life lessons in a wiser and more enlightened performance when he brings his tour down to WIN Entertainment Centre on May 5.
Mayer will be bringing the 70's and 80's California rock/pop sound of his new album, Battle Studies, for a tour of the same name.
Since his 2001 debut, Room For Squares, and the world-wide hit, Your Body Is A Wonderland, Mayer has to his name, four studio albums, seven Grammy Awards and nearly 13 million album sales in just nine years!!
The now 32-year-old Mayer isn’t just getting older – a worry he cast adrift with the 2006 release of his here-I-am, blown-open, mega-success, Continuum – he’s getting better.
He calls Battle Studies a “from-the-gut” confessional and, if it can be said of his album, it is definitely true of his concerts. They’re intimate with the same “efficiency of simplicity” he says marks his new record.
There’s no assembly-line dancers or manufactured costume changes; it’s Mayer’s sweet voice and what’s been called his “guitar ninja-dom” that style-up the room—and both these he lets rip.
Whether it’s his heart on his sleeve or the watch on his wrist – both are obsessions – Mayer wears them proudly.
Mayer makes a practical symphony of the screaming upon screaming upon screaming which is universally in-chorus at all his live shows. He speaks with his audience, tells them things about himself, lets them know him.
Fans talk of an ‘afterglow’ having seen him live and they bathe in it for days.
“John makes them feel like he’s singing for just them, to just them, it’s very personal,” says promoter, Chairman of Chugg Entertainment, Michael Chugg.
Mayer’s Battle Studies Tour will be his seventh time playing Australia.
SUPPORT ACT - Orianthi
Orianthi, the 25 year old South Australian blonde “rock-chick” guitarist who found fame in Michael Jackson’s This Is It movie and with her debut single, the Top 10-peaking hit, According To You, was announced as the support for the five-date Australian leg of John Mayer’s Battle Studies Tour
Just weeks after being the only Australian performer in the We Are The World remake, the LA-based guitar prodigy is excited to be coming home soon.
A believer that “dreams do come true” – and in her case, and then some! – Orianthi is no stranger to rubbing shoulders with stars of the ‘super’ kind.
Her first support was opening for Steve Vai when she was 15. Next up was ZZ Top. She jammed with Santana when she was 18.
Then, in a modern twist on the old-fashioned fairytale, she didn’t get the ‘call’, but rather, the ‘email’ – via MySpace – from Michael Jackson’s Musical Director asking if she wanted to audition for This Is It.
“I didn’t think it was for real,” she said.
“Getting into his band, actually being hired, by MJ, was a really special and amazing moment, there were tears.”
Supporting John Mayer is another star-string to her dream-bow and it’s doubly special and amazing because she’s coming home to Oz.
Tickets on general sale Friday February 19.
**Please note - WEC Priority Club members must reserve tickets by Tuesday 16th February. Tickets must be paid and collected between 9-5 Wednesday 17th February. Please email priorityclub@wec.org.au for any further questions.
Tickets on sale through Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au
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