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TLC Announce 2024 30th Anniversary of ‘CrazySexyCool’ Tour in Australia and New Zealand with Busta Rhymes and En Vogue

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The best-selling American female group of all time, TLC announce their 2024 CrazySexyCool 30th Anniversary Australia Tour Dates presented by iHeartRadio.

The tour will kick off just after Chilli‘s birthday (February 27th) on February 29th at Trusts Arena Auckland, followed by Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on March 2nd, Adelaide Entertainment Centre on March 3rd, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on March 5th, Brisbane Entertainment Centre on March 7th, concluding with RAC Arena Perth on March 9th.

TLC – Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas – will perform selections from their 1994 Diamond-certified album, 30 years after its release plus additional hits. The ‘90s themed shows will feature fan interaction, 90s fashion, and more surprises. Joining TLC are Busta Rhymes and En Vogue.

General public tickets go on sale on Thursday, December 7th at 1pm (All times local).

Chilli says, “I’m so excited to return to Australia! This is the album that put us on the map with Aussie fans and showed the world who we really are. And to mark 30 years, this will be quite the celebration!”

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‘CrazySexyCool‘ is TLC’s second studio album that featured the #1 singles “Waterfalls” and “Creep” and received a Diamond certification from the RIAA. In Australia, the album was a massive success, reaching the top 5 and remaining in the top 100 for 76 weeks with sales in excess of double platinum.

With over 85 million records sold worldwide, TLC is not only the best-selling American girl group of all time; with 4 Grammy Awards, 4 multi-platinum albums (two of which went Diamond), four number one singles and ten Top 10 singles, theirs is an influence – across pop, hip-hop, R&B, fashion, and female empowerment – which defines generations. In 2017, TLC released a self-titled album, their first in over fifteen years, which hit #1 on Billboard’s Independent Album Chart.

A two-hour Documentary “TLC Forever” premiered simultaneously on Lifetime and A&E in 2023, chronicling the group’s powerful, emotional journey and their survival against all odds as T-Boz and Chilli revealed their story for the first time in a feature documentary. Directed by Matt Kay, executive-produced by Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-Winning director Roger Ross Williams (“The Apollo”) and executive producers Tionne Watkins, Rozonda Thomas, and Bill Diggins.


TLC CRAZYSEXYCOOL 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
AUSTRALIA 2024
Presented by iHeartRadio


Tickets available via livenation.com.au or livenation.co.nz

Thursday, February 29th
Trusts Arena, Auckland, NZ

Saturday, March 2nd
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC

Sunday, March 3rd
Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA

Tuesday, March 5th
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW

Thursday, March 7th
Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD

Saturday, March 9th
RAC Arena, Perth, WA

Live Nation pre-sale: Wednesday, December 6 at 1pm, – Thursday, December 7 at 12pm.

General public tickets go on sale on Thursday, December 7 at 1pm (All times local).

This will also mark the 10th anniversary since TLC first toured in Australia back in 2014. The ladies have been touring consistently ever since due to popular demand.

TLC last performed in Australia in November 2022 as part of Fridayz Live, joining a line-up of artists including Macklemore, Akon, Ashanti, Craig David and more for the event’s return after a two-year absence.

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TLC Announce Australian Tour and Talk 30th Anniversary on Today Show

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TLC are celebrating their 30th anniversary in style this year. Fresh from an overseas tour in UK & Europe earlier this year, and a sold out tour in Hawaii last week, T-Boz and Chilli are ready to return down under in sunny Australia!

Ever since their first Australian venture back in 2014, the girls have become regulars in Oz, performing sold shows both solo and as part of the RNB Fridays lineups over the years. Their last Australian tour was as recent as 2018 for RNB Vine Days.

RNB Fridays has undergone a bit of a makeover this year and has changed the name of ‘Australia’s biggest party’ to Fridayz Live! TLC will be joining the party down under this November on the 4, 5, 6, 11 and 12. Tickets went on sale on August 12.

Joining TLC on the tour will be Macklemore, Shaggy, Ashanti, Craig David, Jay Sean, Lumidee, Dru Hill and Akon amongst others. Hosted by Fatman Scoop and radio personality Abbie Chatfield, whilst Havana Brown and Yo! Mafia will be behind the DJ decks.

Speaking to the Today Show this morning, Chilli explained how much she loves seeing a new generation of younger fans enjoying their music, 30 years later. “It touches both of us in a way, it’s hard to explain, it just pulls at your heartstrings to see little one’s [enjoying TLC music]”, Chilli said. “They weren’t even born when we first came out, in fact, they weren’t even thought about! It’s amazing.”

T-Boz explained how she feels when the reality sinks in that they have been rocking TLC for 30 years. “Everytime someone says it out loud it’s sounds like a whole other lifetime, like wow, three decades”, T-Boz exclaims. “But it’s still a blessing, to still be here selling out tours, doing shows and living life the way that we are, it’s a blessing”.

One of the many highlights in their 30 year career was being the focal point of fashion during the 90’s. “When we set out to do this originally in the beginning we would say things like, ‘we’re gonna be trendsetters, people are gonna dress like us’, but to see it actually come to fruition and happen is a whole other level”, T-Boz states. “We kinda ran the 90’s with the fashion. We would have Donna Karen and people like that would have our silk pajamas [from the ‘Creep’ video] up there like, this is where fashion is going. Just hearing things like that is amazing”.

“Even like the Spice Girls and Scary Spice [Mel B]”, Chilli adds, “it’s an honor that people want to dress like you or be inspired by you”.

Fridayz Live 2022 dates are:

NOVEMBER
Friday 4 – Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
Saturday 5 – Perth, HBF Park
Sunday 6 – Adelaide, Entertainment Centre
Friday 11 – Brisbane, Showgrounds
Saturday 12 – Sydney, Giants Stadium

For more details and ticket information head over to https://fridayz.live

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TLC set to premiere new songs on overseas tour

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T-Boz has hinted that TLC may do some new songs from the long awaited 5th album on their Australian tour in November!

This hope was further solidified when she gave fans a glimpse of her discussing visuals for the revamped tour to feature new songs like No Introduction as part of the set!

Something for all fans to look forward to! Especially those of you lucky enough to be attending the new shows!

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