Foo Fighters’ North American Concrete and Gold Tour has just added seven dates to a tour that already boasts more than a dozen sell-outs, and one of those shows is Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the new Bucks arena, currently being called the Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports center.
Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, Jan. 26 at 9 a.m. Reserved seats run $49-$99 and general admission floor tickets are $99 and will be available via Ticketmaster. There is a strict four-ticket limit.
The band's tour – in support of its hot-selling "Concrete and Gold" record – opens in Austin, Texas, on April 18 and, so far, runs through Oct. 18, when the sextet will fight foo in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fifteen of the nearly 40 shows have already sold out.
Capital One Cardholder and FF Fan Pre-Sale tickets will be available starting Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 10 a.m. The pre-sale closes exactly 48 hours later or when tickets sell out.
For more on the tour and the record, visit foofighters.com.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
