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ZZ TOP Announces Summer 2024 European Tour

ZZ TOP will embark on a European tour next summer. The band's first shows on the continent in five years will consist of stops in nine countries, including festivals and indoor headline shows, starting in Sweden on June 28 before coming to Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France and the U.K., and wrapping up in Switzerland on July 16.

"It's been a while since we've been able to check in with our European fans, so it goes without saying that we're excited about coming back this summer," said ZZ TOP frontman Billy Gibbons . "We're looking forward to a good time and that goes for both those in the audience and on stage."

Tickets will go on sale on Friday, December 15 at 10 a.m.

ZZ TOP 's 2024 European tour dates are:

June 28 - Rattvik, Sweden, Dalhalla Festival June 29 - Oslo, Norway, Tons Of Rock Festival July 01 - Arhus, Denmark, Tivoli July 02 - Halle, Germany, Peissnitzinsel July 03 - Sperken, Austria, Castle Clam July 05 - Bonn, Germany, Kuntstrasen July 06 - Berlin, Germany, Zitadelle July 08 - Amsterdam, Netherlands, AFAS Live July 09 - Paris, France, La Villette July 11 - London, UK, OVO Arena Wembley July 13 - Wolfsburg, Autostadt Festival July 14 - Munich, Germany, Tollwood Festival July 16 - Sion, Switzerland, Sion Festival

"That Little Ol' Band From Texas" has been at it for well over a half century delivering rock, blues and boogie on stage and studio to millions of devoted fans. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ TOP is globally recognized with their beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language.

It was in 1969 Houston when ZZ TOP coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy Gibbons 's MOVING SIDEWALKS and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill 's AMERICAN BLUES . ZZ TOP 's 1973 release, "Tres Hombres" , catapulted them to national attention with the hit "La Grange" , still one of the band's signature pieces today. "Eliminator" , their 1983 album was something of a paradigm shift for ZZ TOP . Their roots blues skew was intact and added to the mix came their high-tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with such tracks as "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" on the nascent MTV . It was one of the record industry's first albums to have been certified diamond, far beyond gold and platinum, a reflection of sales exceeding 10 million units.

As a touring outfit, they've been without peer over the past five decades, having performed before millions of fans over four continents and have been the subject of their own Grammy -nominated documentary titled "That Little Ol' Band From Texas" . The band's line-up of the bearded Gibbons and Hill and Beard , who ironically is clean shaven, remained intact for more than 50 years. When Dusty temporarily departed the tour in the summer of 2021, Elwood Francis entered the picture accepting the directive from Dusty to be the perfect choice to stand in on the bass-guitar and now handles the low-end duties for the band for the present as well as into the future.

The elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring can be summed up in the three words of the band's internal mantra: "Tone, Taste and Tenacity". As genuine roots performers, they have few peers. Their influences are both the originators of the form — Muddy Waters , B.B. King , Jimmy Reed , et al – as well as the British blues rockers and Jimi Hendrix who emerged generations before ZZ 's ascendance.

They have sold hundreds of millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes Of The State Of Texas, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (by Keith Richards , no less) and have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms. They are true rock icons and, against all odds, they're really just doing what they've always done. ZZ TOP abides!

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ZZ Top announce first UK and European tour dates in five years for 2024

The tour includes a stop at Wembley Arena next summer

ZZ Top will be touring the UK and Europe for the first time in five years in 2024.

The band will be performing in nine countries across the continent next summer, including festivals and indoor headline shows, starting in Sweden on June 28 before coming to Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France and the UK before signing off in Switzerland on July 16. The only UK date on the tour will be in London at the OVO Arena Wembley on July 11.

“It’s been a while since we’ve been able to check in with our European fans, so it goes without saying that we’re excited about coming back this summer,” said frontman Billy Gibbons in a press release. “We’re looking forward to a good time and that goes for both those in the audience and on stage.”

Tickets will go on sale on Friday (December 15) at 10am – you can buy yours here and see the full list of dates below.

ZZ Top’s 2024 tour dates are:

JUNE 28 – Rattvik, Sweden, Dalhalla Festival 29 – Oslo, Norway, Tons Of Rock Festival

JULY 1 – Arhus, Denmark, Tivoli 2 – Halle, Germany, Peissnitzinsel 3 – Sperken, Austria, Castle Clam 5 – Bonn, Germany, Kuntstrasen 6 – Berlin, Germany, Zitadelle 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, AFAS Live 9 – Paris, France, La Villette 11 – London, UK, OVO Arena Wembley 13 – Wolfsburg, Autostadt Festival 14 – Munich, Germany, Tollwood Festival 16 – Sion, Switzerland, Sion Festival

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Meanwhile, Gibbons teamed up with Slash and Myles Kennedy for a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s   ‘Simple Man’ with Warren Haynes’ band Gov’t Mule at Haynes’ 2023 Christmas Jam at the weekend. The cover featured vocals from Haynes and Kennedy, along with an extended guitar solo from Slash.

The concert marks the 32nd edition of Haynes’ annual Christmas Jam, and took place at the Exploreasheville.com Arena in Asheville, North Carolina. The charity event raised funds to benefit local non-profits, Asheville Area Habitat For Humanity and BeLoved Asheville.

Besides Slash, Kennedy, Gibbons and Gov’t Mule, the event also featured Jason Bonham on drums, and acts including American Babies and Clutch.

Elsewhere in the concert, Billy Gibbons played a set of ZZ Top songs, including ‘Jesus Just Left Chicago’, ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ and ‘La Grange’.

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ZZ Top announce first European tour in five years

"It's been a while since we've been able to check in with our European fans": ZZ Top's 2024 European shows will be their first on the continent with new bassist Elwood Francis

ZZ Top have announced a European tour for 2024. The shows will be the band's first on the continent since 2019, and their first on the European side of the Atlantic with new bassist Elwood Francis, who replaced the late Dusty Hill in 2021. 

The run of 13 shows kicks off at the Dalhalla Festival in Rattvik, Sweden, on June 28, and concludes a little over two weeks later at the Sion Festival in Switzerland. They've got just one UK show lined up, at Wembley Arena in London on July 11. Tickets will go on sale on December 15 at 10 AM.

"It’s been a while since we’ve been able to check in with our European fans," says Billy Gibbons. "So it goes without saying that we’re excited about coming back this summer. We’re looking forward to a good time and that goes for both those in the audience and on stage."

ZZ Top's European dates are scheduled between two legs of their Sharp Dressed Simple Man co-headlining tour of the US with Lynyrd Skynyrd , which kicks off in March and concludes in September. Full dates below.  

ZZ Top Tour 2024

Mar 08: Savannah Enmarket Arena, GA Mar 09: Estero Hertz Arena, FL Mar 14: Greenville Bon Secours Wellness Arena, SC Mar 15: Knoxville Thompson-Boiling Arena at Food City Ctr, TN Mar 16: Colonial Life Arena Columbia, SC Mar 22: Bossier City Brookshire Grocery Arena, LA Mar 23: Southhaven Landers Center, MS Mar 24: Macon Macon Amphitheater, GA Mar 28: Lexington Rupp Arena, KY Mar 29: Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum, NC Mar 30: Charleston Charleston Coliseum, WV Apr 04: Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum, MS Apr 05: Tallahassee Donald L. Tucker Civic Center, FL Apr 06: Huntsville Propst Arena at the Von Braun Center, AL Apr 12: Evansville Ford Center, IN Apr 13: Moline Vibrant Arena, IL Apr 14: Green Bay Resch Center, WI Apr 18: North Little Rock Simmons Bank Arena, AR Apr 19: Lafayette Cajundome, LA Apr 20: Corpus Christi American Bank Center, TX

Jun 28: Rattvik Dalhalla Festival, Sweden Jun 29: Saturday Oslo Tons of Rock Festival, Norway Jul 01: Tivoli Arhus, Denmark Jul 02: Halle Peissnitzinsel, Germany Jul 03: Sperken Castle Clam, Austria Jul 05: Bonn Kunst!rasen, Germany Jul 06: Berlin Zitadelle, Germany Jul 08: Amsterdam AFAS Live, Holland Jul 09: Paris Zenith, France Jul 11: London OVO Arena Wembley, UK Jul 13: Wolfsburg Autostadt Summer Festival, Germany Jul 14: Munich Tollwood Festival, Germany Jul 16: Sion Festival, Switzerland

Aug 09: Mount Pleasant Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort, MI Aug 15: Syracuse Empower FCU Amphitheater at Lakeview, NY Aug 16: Bethel Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, NY Aug 17: Mansfield Xfinity Center, MA Aug 22: Wantagh Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater, NY Aug 23: Gilford BankNH Pavilion, NH Aug 24: Hartford Xfinity Theatre, CT Sep 05: Alpharetta Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, GA Sep 07: Virginia Beach Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheter, VA Sep 08: Bristow Jiffy Lube Live, VA Sep 12: Darien Center Darien Lake Amphitheater, NY Sep 13: Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre, MI Sep 14: Noblesville Ruoff Music Center, IN Sep 19: Concord Toyota Pavilion at Concord, CA Sep 21: Auburn White River Amphitheatre, WA Sep 22: Ridgefield RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater, WA

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ZZ Top have announced they’re finally returning to the UK in 2024 after five years.

“It’s been a while since we’ve been able to check in with our European fans, so it goes without saying that we’re excited about coming back this summer,” frontman Billy Gibbons enthused in a press release.

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The grand return comes two years after the passing of ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, and the show is sure to honour him. “We’re looking forward to a good time,” Gibbons says. “That goes for both those in the audience and on stage.”

The band will be hitting the UK just once to play the OVO Arena Wembley on 11 July, as well as a plethora of European countries in June and July, starting in Sweden before moving to Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

While the group haven’t released a fresh album officially since 2012, ZZ Top have been powerfully revisiting their roots. Their Grammy nominated 2019 documentary, ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas , highlighted the true charm of the band, a heart-warming foray into their history.

Soundtrack RAW saw the group re-recording classic tracks, breathing a breath of fresh life into them. Gibbons noted that the sessions were “a return to [ZZ Top’s] roots.”

“It was just us and the music, no audience of thousands, no concession stands, no parking lot social hour, no phalanx of tour buses,” he reflects. “Just us.”

“The Director suggested we find a way to illustrate the early style from the start of our five-plus decades run,” he continues. “Gruene Hall, the oldest dance hall in Texas, was selected as a fitting backdrop to replicate the look of the band’s very beginnings. When we arrived… we picked up the instruments and commenced an unplanned jam session. Fortunately, our stage engineers were on hand with tape machines in place to capture the performances that went down. That became, in essence, the soundtrack to the film and now it’s also an audio document of ZZ Top’s early beginnings.  Still going strong today.”

Tickets for ZZ Top’s will go on sale on 15 December. For more info, head to the band’s official website .

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ZZ TOP ANNOUNCE FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR IN FIVE YEARS

For the first time since 2019, ZZ Top is set to play a slate of tour dates in Europe and the UK. The trio, famously known as “That Little Ol’ Band From Texas,” have concert and festival dates in nine countries starting June 28th at the Dalhall Festival in Rattvik, Sweden. Over the course of the three weeks that follow, the band will make tour stops in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, UK, and Switzerland. They’ll be playing a total of five dates in Germany with a stop at London’s OVO Arena Wembly as well as Le Zenith at Parc La Villette in Paris. Tickets will go on sale on December 15, 2023, at 10 AM.

Since the founding of ZZ Top on the last day of 1969, they have gone on to become one of the top concert and recording attractions in the world, highlighted by a string of hit records including their 1973 breakthrough “La Grange” as well as “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Legs” and many more. Their album catalog including Tres Hombres, Deguello, Eliminator and others has sold more than 60 million units worldwide and their status as a top tier in-person attraction remains undiminished. ZZ Top’s concert audiences are typically multi-generational, reflecting their enduring role as blues rock standard bearers for more than half a century. Their ability to seamlessly blend grungy guitar-based blues with synth-pop solidified their place as rock icons as has their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by none other than Keith Richards.

In 2021, ZZ TOP faced a significant loss with the passing of Dusty Hill. At his urging, Elwood Francis stepped up to fill the void, bringing exceptional musicianship and coincidental facial hair, making him a worthy successor to the legendary bassist. Fronted by the legendary Billy F Gibbons and underpinned by rhythmic force of Frank Beard (a/k/a “The Man With No Beard”) with Elwood on bass for the past few years, the group continues to redefine their sonic approach.

ZZ TOP’s latest album, RAW, released in July 2022, pays homage to their roots, and serves as a poignant tribute to the late Dusty Hill. The album, recorded at the historic Gruene Hall in Texas, captures the essence of the band’s 2019 Grammy-nominated documentary, ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas. Fans can expect a journey through their career-spanning tunes, marking a significant return to their musical origins.

Billy Gibbons commented on the tour announcement, “It’s been a while since we’ve been able to check in with our European fans, so it goes without saying that we’re excited about coming back this summer. We’re looking forward to a good time and that goes for both those in the audience and on stage.”

ZZ Top Summer 2024 Tour dates

28-Jun Friday Rattvik, Sweden Dalhaxlla Festival

29-Jun Saturday Oslo, Norway Tons of Rock Festival

01-Jul Monday Arhus, Denmark Tivoli

02-Jul Tuesday Halle, Germany Peissnitzinsel

03-Jul Wednesday Sperken, Austria Castle Clam

05-Jul Friday Bonn, Germany Kunst!rasen

06-Jul Saturday Berlin Germany Zitadelle

08-Jul Monday Amsterdam, Holland AFAS Live

09-Jul Tuesday Paris, France Zenith Paris - La Villette

11-Jul Thursday London UK OVO Arena Wembley

14-Jul Sunday Munich, Germany Tollwood Festival

16-Jul Tuesday Sion, Switzerland Sion Festival

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ZZ Top to embark on first European tour in 5 years in 2024

ZZ Top is set to embark on a European tour in 2024, its first since 2019.

The band has concert and festival dates in nine countries starting 28th June at the Dalhall Festival in Rattvik, Sweden. Over the course of the three weeks that follow, the band will make tour stops in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, UK, and Switzerland.  They’ll be playing a total of five dates in Germany with a stop at London’s OVO Arena Wembly as well as Le Zenith at Parc La Villette in Paris. 

ZZ Top was founded on the last day of 1969 and they've gone on to become one of the biggest concert and recording attractions in the world. They have had a string of hits including ‘La Grange', ‘Sharp Dressed Men' and ‘Legs'. Across their career the band has sold more than 60 million units worldwide.   ZZ Top’s concert audiences are typically multi-generational, reflecting their enduring role as blues rock standard bearers for more than half a century.  Their ability to seamlessly blend grungy guitar-based blues with synth-pop solidified their place as rock icons as has their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by none other than Keith Richards.   In 2021, the band faced a significant loss with the passing of Dusty Hill.  At his urging, Elwood Francis stepped up to fill the void, bringing exceptional musicianship and coincidental facial hair, making him a worthy successor to the legendary bassist. Fronted by the legendary Billy F Gibbons and underpinned by rhythmic force of Frank Beard (a/k/a “The Man With No Beard”) with Elwood on bass for the past few years, the group continues to redefine their sonic approach.   ZZ Top's latest album, ‘RAW', released in July 2022, pays homage to their roots, and serves as a poignant tribute to the late Dusty Hill. The album, recorded at the historic Gruene Hall in Texas, captures the essence of the band's 2019 Grammy-nominated documentary, ‘ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas'.   Billy Gibbons commented on the tour announcement, “It’s been a while since we’ve been able to check in with our European fans, so it goes without saying that we’re excited about coming back this summer.  We’re looking forward to a good time and that goes for both those in the audience and on stage.”   The 2024 dates are:   28-Jun Friday Rattvik, Sweden Dalhalla Festival 29-Jun Saturday Oslo, Norway Tons of Rock Festival 01-Jul Monday Arhus, Denmark Tivoli 02-Jul Tuesday Halle, Germany Peissnitzinsel 03-Jul Wednesday Sperken, Austria Castle Clam 05-Jul Friday Bonn, Germany Kunst!rasen 06-Jul Saturday Berlin Germany Zitadelle 08-Jul Monday Amsterdam, Holland AFAS Live 09-Jul Tuesday Paris, France Zenith Paris – La Villette 11-Jul Thursday London UK OVO Arena Wembley 13-Jul Saturday Wolfsburg, Germany Autostadt Summer Festival 14-Jul Sunday Munich, Germany Tollwood Festival 16-Jul Tuesday Sion, Switzerland Sion Festival   Tickets are on sale from 15th December 2023 at 10am livenation.co.uk .

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