Hip-hop legend, entrepreneur, TV star, and pop culture icon, Snoop Dogg, is booked to perform in New Zealand for one night only during Labour Day weekend. Snoop, along with rap superstar Ice Cube and Bones Thugs-n-Harmony will be at TSB Bank Arena in Wellington on 27 October as part of their Australasian "Smoked Out" tour. This will be a weekend packed with visiting U.S. hip-hop, R&B and rap artists.
Rihanna and Chris Brown will be performing on 27 October in Auckland at Vector Arena and will follow that with a night in Wellington on 29 October at the TSB Arena. This duo is making headlines world-wide and Rihanna's latest single, Disturbia, currently sits at the top of the NZ singles chart.
Tickets to all of these shows will be available 15 September. See the event pages for details.
And one for the rumour mill--the Australian press is reporting that Neil Young will be a Big Day Out headliner. More news to follow as it's offically released.