Entertainment events held at the Vector Arena

Main article: Vector Arena

The Vector Arena has been the busiest arena in New Zealand since its opening in 2007. Many local, regional and international artists have staged their performance at the venue, spanning a wide range of musical genre. Non-concert entertainment events are also included below and all events are arranged in a chronological order according to years.^[1]^[2]

Red Hot Chili Peppers became the first major headlining act to stage a concert at the Vector Arena.

Taylor Swift concluded her Speak Now World Tour with 3 sold out shows at the arena in March 2012. She then returned to the venue again the following year for another 3 sold out shows on her Red Tour.

Eason Chan became the first Chinese and Asian artist to perform at the venue.

2007 - 2010

Entertainment events at Vector Arena
Date	Artists	Events
2007
March 24	Rock Star Supernova^[3]^[4]^[5]	N/A
April 21	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium World Tour^[6]^[7]
April 22	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium World Tour^[6]^[7]
June 10	P!nk	I'm Not Dead Tour^[8]
June 29	Guns N' Roses	Chinese Democracy Tour
June 30	Guns N' Roses	Chinese Democracy Tour
July 26	Gwen Stefani	The Sweet Escape Tour^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
August 11	Bob Dylan	Never Ending Tour 2007^[13]
August 14	The Cure	4 Play Tour^[14]
September 14	Snow Patrol	Eyes Open Tour^[15]^[16]^[17]
September 22	Steely Dan^[18]^[19]
October 11	Linkin Park	Minutes to Midnight World Tour^[20]
October 12	Linkin Park	Minutes to Midnight World Tour^[20]
October 20	Powderfinger	Across the Great Divide Tour^[21]^[22]
October 23	Justin Timberlake	FutureSex/LoveShow^[23]^[24]
October 24
October 26
October 28	Crowded House^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29]	N/A
November 18	The Beach Boys
November 28	Lionel Richie^[30]
December 6	My Chemical Romance	The Black Parade World Tour^[31]^[32]^[33]
2008
January 4	The Summadayze Festival^[34]^[35]	N/A
January 12	Kings of Leon	Because of the Times Tour^[36]^[37]^[38]
February 18	Rod Stewart	Rocks His Greatest Hits Tour^[39]
February 19	Rod Stewart	Rocks His Greatest Hits Tour^[39]
February 28	The Chemical Brothers
March 4	Santana
March 22	The Smashing Pumpkins
March 26	Duran Duran
March 28	Split Enz	N/A
March 29	Split Enz	N/A
April 8	Matchbox 20
April 24	KoЯn	N/A
April 30	James Blunt	N/A
May 5	Foo Fighters
May 6	Foo Fighters
May 10	Westlife	Back Home Tour
May 14	Elton John	Rocket Man: Greatest Hits Live
June 16	Mary J. Blige	N/A
August 20	Andrea Bocelli	N/A
August 30	Panic! at the Disco
September 9	Music as a Weapon Festival	N/A
October 27	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad Tour
October 28	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad Tour
October 30	Stevie Wonder
November 8	Seether
November 14	Def Leppard
December 1	Kanye West	Glow in the Dark Tour
December 3	John Mellencamp	N/A
December 6	Alicia Keys	As I Am Tour
December 8	Kylie Minogue	KylieX2008
December 9	Kylie Minogue	KylieX2008
December 11	The Yellow Pages Homemade Jam	N/A
December 14	Billy Joel
December 16	Billy Joel
2009
January 10	The Summadayze Festival	N/A
January 22	Leonard Cohen	2008 - 2010 Tour
February 17	Nine Inch Nails	Wave Goodbye Tour
February 23	Fall Out Boys
March 4	Eric Clapton
March 18	Coldplay	Viva la Vida Tour
March 19	Coldplay	Viva la Vida Tour
March 25	Kings of Leon	Only by the Night World Tour
March 28 ( 4 Shows)	The Wiggles	N/A
March 29	The Wiggles	N/A
March 31	Duffy
May 16	The Pussycat Dolls	Doll Domination Tour
June 13	Simon & Garfunkel	N/A
June 14	Simon & Garfunkel	N/A
October 2	Il Divo
October 13	The Black Eyed Peas	The E.N.D. World Tour
October 19	The Samoa Relief Concert	N/A
October 24	Johann Strauss Orchestra	N/A
October 25	Johann Strauss Orchestra
November 7	Nickelback	Dark Horse Tour
December 18	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown World Tour
December 19	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown World Tour
2010
January 30	Them Crooked Vultures	Deserve the Future Tour
February 18	Faith No More	The Second Coming Tour
February 24	Cliff Richard
February 25	Cliff Richard
March 5	Boz Scaggs	N/A
March 11	Backstreet Boys	This Is Us Tour
March 12	The Pixies	N/A
March 13	Lady Gaga	The Monster Ball Tour
March 14	Lady Gaga	The Monster Ball Tour
March 19	Burt Bacharach	N/A
March 25	Massive Attack	N/A
March 27 (4 Shows)	The Wiggles
March 28
April 10	James Taylor Carole King	Troubadour Reunion Tour
April 11	Kelly Clarkson	All I Ever Wanted Tour
April 28	John Mayer
April 29	Spandau Ballet	N/A
June 29	Yusuf Islam	N/A
October 8	Paramore	Brand New Eyes World Tour
October 13	Metallica	World Magnetic Tour (Metallica) Wrath Tour (Lamb of God)
October 14	Metallica	World Magnetic Tour (Metallica) Wrath Tour (Lamb of God)
October 17	Simply Red	N/A
November 8	Robin Gibb	An Evening of the Bee Gees Greatest Hits Tour
November 19	George Benson	N/A
December 2	Jack Johnson	N/A
December 5	Bon Jovi	The Circle Tour
December 8	Robin Gibb	An Evening of the Bee Gees Greatest Hits Tour
December 16	Blondie	N/A
December 21	Gorillaz	Escape to Plastic Beach Tour

2011 - Present

Entertainment events at Vector Arena
Date	Artists	Events
2011
January 21	Kenny Rogers
January 27	Joe Cocker
February 26	Neil Diamond
February 28
March 1
March 2	The Chemical Brothers
March 26	Stone Temple Pilots	N/A
April 5	Usher	OMG Tour
April 18	Bruno Mars	The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour
April 21	deadmau5
April 23 (4 Shows)	The Wiggles	N/A
April 24	The Wiggles	N/A
April 30	Bob Dylan	Never Ending Tour 2011
May 3	Music as a Weapon Festival	N/A
May 6	Johann Strauss Orchestra
May 7	Katy Perry	The California Dreams Tour
May 8	Katy Perry	The California Dreams Tour
August 25	Cirque du Soleil	Saltimbanco
September 15	Joe	N/A
September 29	The R&V Soundcheck Festival	N/A
October 12	Def Leppard	Mirror Ball Tour
October 29	Meat Loaf	Guilty Pleasure Tour
November 4	Steely Dan	N/A
November 10	Portishead
December 3	Cold Chisel	N/A
2012
January 31	Incubus
February 18	Roger Waters	The Wall Live
February 20
February 22
February 23
February 25	The Game
February 27	New Order
March 2	Fatboy Slim
March 16	Taylor Swift	Speak Now World Tour
March 17
March 18
March 31	Evanescence	Evanescence Tour
April 1	Yes
April 5	Frankie Valli The 4 Seasons
April 14	Reece Mastin	Australia and New Zealand Tour
May 3	David Guetta
May 28	Florence + The Machine	Ceremonials Tour
June 7	Lady Gaga	Born This Way Ball Tour
June 8
June 10
June 29	Flight of the Conchords
June 30
July 1
July 28	Kimbra
August 4	The Smashing Pumpkins
August 12	Kenny Rogers
August 17	Slash	Apocalyptic Love World Tour
September 15 (5 Shows)	The Wiggles	N/A
September 16	The Wiggles	N/A
October 5	The R&V Soundcheck Festival	N/A
October 23	Hot Chelle Rae
November 2	Mumford & Sons
November 3	The Black Keys	El Camino Tour
November 6	Radiohead
November 18	Emmylou Harris	N/A
November 24	Nicki Minaj	Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Tour
November 30	Nickelback	Here and Now Tour
December 15	Morrissey
2013
January 13	Weezer	N/A
January 14	Red Hot Chili Peppers	I'm with You World Tour
January 15	Red Hot Chili Peppers	I'm with You World Tour
January 26	Cliff Richard	N/A
February 9	Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band	N/A
February 21	Linkin Park	Living Things World Tour
February 22	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
February 24	Deep Purple	Now What? World Tour
February 26	The Stone Roses	Reunion Tour
February 27	The Offspring	Days Go By Tour
March 9	Ed Sheeran	+ Tour
March 10	Glenn Frey
March 19	Santana	Steve Miller Band
March 21	Neil Young Crazy Horse
March 26	The Jacksons	Unity Tour
April 8	Paul Simon
April 10	Robert Plant
April 12	The Script	3 World Tour
April 13	Josh Groban	All That Echoes World Tour
April 20	Black Sabbath	Reunion Tour
April 22	Black Sabbath	Reunion Tour
May 8	Tool	2013 Tour
May 9	Tool	2013 Tour
June 29	Engelbert Humperdinck
July 2	Manic Street Preachers
September 7	Lorde	Mt Eden
October 6	Rihanna	Diamonds World Tour
October 7
October 8
October 12	One Direction	Take Me Home Tour
October 13	One Direction	Take Me Home Tour
October 16	Beyoncé	The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour
October 17
October 18
October 19
October 25	Johann Strauss Orchestra	N/A
October 30	Cirque du Soleil	Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour
October 31
November 1
November 2
November 3
November 16	OneRepublic	Native Tour
November 23	Justin Bieber	Believe Tour
November 29	Taylor Swift	Red Tour
November 30
December 1
December 19	Alicia Keys	Set The World On Fire Tour
December 21	Leonard Cohen	Old Ideas World Tour
2014
January 19	Paramore	The Self-Titled Tour
February 3	UB40
February 4	The National
February 7	Dolly Parton	Blue Smoke World Tour
February 8	Dolly Parton	Blue Smoke World Tour
February 14	Ed Kowalczyk
February 19	The WestFest
February 20
March 15	Bruno Mars	The Moonshine Jungle Tour
March 16	Bruno Mars	The Moonshine Jungle Tour
March 19	Nine Inch Nails	Twenty Thirteen Tour
March 23	Lionel Richie	All the Hits, All Night Long
April 24	Jason Derulo	Tattoos World Tour
April 25	United Kingdom	Joss Stone
April 26	John Mayer	Born and Raised World Tour
May 2	Arctic Monkeys	AM Tour
May 21	Michael Bublé	To Be Loved Tour
May 22	Michael Bublé	To Be Loved Tour
June 7	Ellie Goulding	The Halcyon Days Tour}
September 3	Queen + Adam Lambert	2014 - 2015 Tour
September 4	Queen + Adam Lambert	2014 - 2015 Tour
September 11	Andrea Bocelli
October 8	Miley Cyrus	Bangerz Tour
October 12	Justin Timberlake
October 13
October 15
November 13	Mariah Carey	The Elusive Chanteuse Show
December 12	John Legend
2015
January 15	The Kooks
January 30	Paul Simon
February 7	Roxette	RoXXXette The 30th Anniversary Tour
February 13	Drake	Jungle Tour
March 11	Jessie J	Sweet Talker Tour
April 11	Ed Sheeran	x Tour
April 12	Ed Sheeran	x Tour
April 17	Ricky Martin	One World Tour
April 22	Sam Smith	In the Lonely Hour Tour]
April 23	Sam Smith	In the Lonely Hour Tour]
April 26	Demi Lovato	Demi World Tour
May 5	The Script	No Sound Without Silence Tour
May 9	Mötley Crüe	The Final Tour
June 18	5 Seconds of Summer	Rock Out with Your Socks Out Tour
July 2	Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
September 8	Imagine Dragons	Smoke + Mirrors Tour
October 3	Maroon 5	Maroon V Tour
October 4	Maroon 5	Maroon V Tour
October 13	Eason Chan
October 14	Russell Brand	Trew World Order Tour
October 16	Kiss	The KISS 40th Anniversary World Tour
October 19	Neil Diamond	Melody Road Tour
October 21	Neil Diamond	Melody Road Tour
November 3	Robbie Williams	Let Me Entertain You Tour
November 5	Hozier	N/A
November 7	Burt Bacharach	An Evening with Burt Bacharach
November 10	Mumford & Sons	Wilder Mind Tour
November 19	50th Annual Vodafone NZ Music Awards^[40]^[41]^[42]^[43]^[44]
November 21	Florence + The Machine	How Big Tour^[45]^[46]^[47]^[48]
December 4	Lucinda Williams^[49]^[50]^[51]^[52]
December 16	Oprah Winfrey	An Evening with Oprah Winfrey^[53]^[54]
2016
February 5	Cirque du Soleil	Quidam^[55]^[56]^[57]^[58]^[59]
February 6
February 7
February 8
February 9
February 10
February 11
February 12
February 13
February 14
February 24	ASAP Rocky^[60]^[61]^[62]	N/A
February 27	Simply Red	Big Love Tour^[63]^[64]
March 5	Madonna	Rebel Heart Tour^[65]^[66]^[67]^[68]^[69]
March 6	Madonna	Rebel Heart Tour^[65]^[66]^[67]^[68]^[69]
March 11	Sole Mio	2016 Nationwide Tour^[70]^[71]^[72]
March 14	Jerron Paxton^[73]	N/A
March 19	Tom Jones	Tom Jones Live^[74]^[75]^[76]^[77]^[78]^[79]
March 25	Mrs. Brown's Boys	Good Mourning Mrs. Brown^[80]^[81]
March 26 (2 Shows)
March 27
April 18	Twenty One Pilots	Blurryface Tour^[82]^[83]^[84]^[85]
April 28	Black Sabbath	The End Tour^[86]^[87]
May 1	Iron Maiden	The Book of Souls World Tour^[88]^[89]^[90]^[91]^[92]
May 4	Rudimental^[93]^[94]^[95]
May 13	Ice Age Live^[96]^[97]^[98]^[99]
May 14
May 15
July 15	Broods	Conscious Tour^[100]^[101]^[102]^[103]^[104]
July 21	The Cure	The Cure Tour 2016^[105]^[106]^[107]^[108]
July 22	Flume^[109]^[110]^[111]^[112]
July 28	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	This Unruly Mess I've Made Tour^[113]^[114]^[115]^[116]^[117]
August 4	Disney On Ice^[118]^[119]^[120]
August 5
August 6
August 7
August 13	Selena Gomez	Revival Tour^[121]^[122]^[123]^[124]^[125]
September 10	Pentatonix	2016 World Tour^[126]^[127]
October 1	Ellie Goulding	Delirium World Tour^[128]^[129]
October 19	Michael McIntyre	Happy & Glorious New Zealand Tour^[130]
October 26	Slipknot	The Gray Chapter Tour^[131]^[132]^[133]
November 1	André Rieu	2016 Arena Tour^[134]
November 26	TLC	Return of TLC Tour
December 2	Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals	Call It What It Is Tour^[135]^[136]^[137]
2017
January 29	Money $hot	Round Under Tour
February 2	Panic! at the Disco	Death Of A Bachelor Tour^[138]
March 25	Twenty One Pilots	Emotional Roadshow World Tour^[139]

References

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