POP PUNK BAND 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER TO PLAY AT KFC YUM! CENTER ON AUGUST 4, 2015

Louisville, KY (July 30, 2014) – Pop punk sensations 5 Seconds of Summer announced today their massive 2015 Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour in support of their Billboard chart-topping, self-titled debut album.

The band's first-ever North American headlining tour, produced and promoted exclusively by Live Nation and presented by Nabisco, the makers of OREO, RITZ and HONEY MAID, will kick off on July 17, 2015 at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The tour will take the breakout band to amphitheaters and arenas in 30 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, including a stop in Louisville at KFC Yum! Center on Tuesday, August 4.

 

The hottest ticket of the 2015 summer concert season will go on-sale starting Saturday, Aug. 9 at the KFC Yum! Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Citi® cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 10:00 a.m. local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. 

 

This past Saturday, thousands of fans converged on The Forum in Los Angeles where tickets went on sale for the band's first-ever headlining arena performance. The quartet treated nearly 6,000 attendees to a special three-song acoustic set. All available tickets for the Nov. 15 show sold out instantly leading the band to add a second date on Nov. 16 at The Forum.  Tickets for the second show go on sale on Aug. 9.  Leading up to both Forum dates, the band will now also play a brand new show at the Ak-Chin Pavilion on Nov. 13, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz.  Tickets for that show will also go on sale on Aug. 9.

 

The band's self-titled debut album on Capitol Records rocketed to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 moving 258,000 units.  5 Seconds of Summer are special guests on the One Direction Where We Are World Tour, set to hit North America on Aug. 1.