TICKETS to the Jimmy Barnes Bathurst concert sold out in a matter of minutes after being released to the general public on Monday.
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The concert, being held at BMEC in April next year, generated enormous interest, with pre sale tickets open to Friends of BMEC on Friday.
The remaining tickets went on sale at 10am Monday, and by 10.30am, all that was left were a few single tickets.
Stephen Champion, Centre Manager, said he couldn’t recall any other event selling out so quickly, and said the rush for tickets was something not seen before.
“Basically the show was sold out by 10.30am, there are one or two seats, just single tickets but everything else is gone.”
Mr Champion said the pre sale tickets were also snapped up.
“We had people join the Friends of BMEC so they could get in early,” he said.
Mr Champion said it was great Bathurst was getting such a high caliber performer.
“It’s great to see that he still has that pulling power,” he said.
Mr Champion said it was a possibility promoters of the tour would consider a second concert here, but nothing had been confirmed.
Jimmy Barnes announced his national tour last week with his Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre performance, on Saturday, April 7 one of just two Central West shows planned for the tour.
The other will be at the Parklands Resort & Conference Centre in Mudgee on Thursday, April 5.
Working Class Man: An Evening of Stories & Songs is the sequel to the acclaimed live show Barnes toured following the release of his first bestselling memoir, Working Class Boy, in 2016.
This new tour follows the release of part two of the memoir, titled Working Class Man, on Monday, October 23.
In Working Class Boy, Barnes revealed the previously untold details of a profoundly troubled childhood. That memoir won the ABIA Award as the Best Biography of 2016 and was also the country’s number one selling non-fiction title last year with sales now topping 150,000 copies.
Working Class Man begins in 1974 as Barnes leaves Adelaide in the back of an old bread truck with a then unknown rock group called Cold Chisel.
The new show will see Barnes telling his life story and singing stripped back versions of songs that have shaped his journey.
The tour will also help promote the work of Lifeline as Barnes will be drawing further attention to the issues of addiction and mental health.