SIMON JONES
Senior Vice President, International Touring
AEG Presents,
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Have worked with and promoted many internationally successful touring artists such as:
Ed Sheeran / Justin Bieber / Shawn Mendes / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / BLACKPINK / Taylor Swift / Khalid / Fred Again.. / Quentin Tarantino / London Grammar / Sam Ryder / Anne-Marie / Father John Misty / The National / The Vamps / Wallows / Passenger / Summer Walker / Tyler The Creator / Kid Cudi / Tom Odell / Ry X / Flyte / Drive By Truckers / Jason Isbell / Lauv / Jeremy Zucker / Rex Orange County / Brittany Howard / Bears Den / The Bootleg Beatles / Bruno Major / Editors / Public Service Broadcasting / Emily King / Honne / Illenium / Jain / JP Saxe / JP Cooper / JoJo Siwa / Kevin Smith / YOLA / Rupi Kaur / Stuff You Should Know / Leftfield / Lindsey Stirling / Bianca Del Rio / Lucius / Weird Al Yankovic / Lucy Rose / Mathilda Homer / Thomas Headon / Gracey / Jess Glynne / Jade Bird
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Was awarded ILMC's 2022 'Promoter's Promoter'.
And named in Billboards International Power Players in 2021, and 2022.
TOURS / EVENTS
BRITS WEEK 2015 - PRESENT
Working with the BPI, and each major label to curate the established industry fixture that is BRITs Week, raising millions of pounds in the process for War Child.
JUSTIN BIEBER JUSTICE WORLD TOUR 2022/23
International Stadium & Arena dates of the Justice World Tour announced in Nov 2021, spanning 10 months, and selling over 2m tickets on launch.
ED SHEERAN 'DIVIDE WORLD TOUR' 2019/20
Promoted over 30 stadium shows in 20 different countries, selling well in excess of 1.3m tickets around the world. Setting records along the way for the biggest ever stadium shows in South Africa, Iceland, and the biggest ever international artist to play shows in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Shows in:
Glasgow / Lisbon / Moscow / Reykjavik / Cape Town / Johannesburg / Dubai / Mumbai / Tokyo / Osaka / Manilla / Bangkok / Taipei / Singapore / Hong Kong / Incheon / Jakarta / Kuala Lumpur
TOURS/EVENTS
ED SHEERAN '+-=÷X' WORLD TOUR, GLASGOW 2022
Promoting the biggest ever capacity achieved at Glasgow Hampden Park with 2 sold out shows in the round, making that Ed's fifth sold out show at Scotlands National Stadium.
BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR 'EUROPE' 2022
BLACKPINK made history with the biggest arena tour by a female K-pop group, including 2 sold out shows at The O2, which was lit up in their honour. 8 other sold out arena shows across Europe including:
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2 nights at Berlin Mercedes Benz Arena
2 nights at Paris Accor Hotel Arena
1 night at Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi
1 night at Copenhagen Royal Arena
1 night at Cologne Lanxess Arena
1 night at Amsterdam Ziggo Dome
KID CUDI EUROPE TOUR 2022
Kid Cudi's first European tour ever, with a sold out 8 date tour across the continent.
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Including:
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The O2, London
Verti Music Hall, Berlin
Le Zenith, Paris
AFAS Live, Amsterdam
Palais 12, Brussels
Fabrique, Milan
TOURS / EVENTS
TAYLOR SWIFT - LOVER IN PARIS
Launch show for Taylor Swift, 'Lover' in Paris at L'Olympia. Â Taylor's most intimate show in years, and due to the pandemic, the only show of hers in her 'Lover' campaign.
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS UK/EU TOUR 2021
After this unfortunate cancellation of the biggest ever selling Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds arena tour in 2020, due to COVID, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis set out on a 30 date UK/EU theatre tour, in the most ornate and beautiful theatres in each city, in a brave new world of a pandemic and strict bubbles, the tour sold 50,000 tickets with zero positive covid cases amongst the crew.
SHAWN MENDES UK/EU TOUR 2017 / 2019
Shawn Mendes Illuminate and Shawn Mendes: The Tour were two hugely successful, completely sold out European arena tours. 750,000 tickets sold across both tours.
BLACKPINK 2022 EUROPE TOUR PHOTO DUMP
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