{"id":2025967,"date":"2025-09-16T10:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2025967"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:56:34","slug":"tool-announce-one-off-new-zealand-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tool-announce-one-off-new-zealand-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool Announce One-Off New Zealand Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tool are coming to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Announced today (September 16th), the US prog-metal icons will play Spark Arena on Saturday, November 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, September 22nd, while the Tool Army pre-sale commences on Wednesday, September 17th at 12pm NZST.<\/p>\n<p>Tool\u2019s brief Aotearoa visit will come ahead of their headline slot at Good Things 2025 in December. That will be\u00a0their first Australian festival headline slot since Big Day Out 2011, as well as their first local shows in over five years.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tool-justin-chancellor-interview-good-things-festival-82696\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em><\/a>, bassist Justin Chancellor reflected on both Tool\u2019s return and his experience performing at Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s farewell concert in Birmingham last month. The show, \u2018Back to the Beginning\u2019, staged at Villa Park, turned out to be Osbourne\u2019s swansong before his death two-and-a-half weeks later at 76.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even explain it. There\u2019s a little hard to get my head around,\u201d Chancellor said. \u201cI watched his whole set with my family out in the front when Sabbath and Ozzy played and I thought he was amazing. Obviously, he was really sick. You know, obviously he couldn\u2019t stand up, but we all knew this. The band was incredible, but he was amazing too.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOorHDvlEFZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Chancellor recalled seeing Osbourne at the backstage party afterwards. \u201cHe came out, he was in a wheelchair but he was hanging out. There were so many people talking to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news of Ozzy\u2019s passing hit hard. \u201cI didn\u2019t see it coming at all. I can\u2019t even explain it. It\u2019s a little hard to get my head around. It was very intense, because we\u2019ve been part of (the final show). And it hit me pretty hard. It was very sad, but also very amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor added: \u201cI did hear that he went off his pain medication to do the show in order to be able to hit the notes and to be more coherent. He went through quite a lot of pain to actually pull that off. It blew my mind. But it made sense when I saw the performance. It was just incredibly emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tool\u2019s own set included \u201cForty Six &amp; 2\u2033, \u201c\u00c6nema\u201d, and a cover of Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cHand of Doom\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: TOOL\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8?si=oBQG8LgKSEmrC4tSzyiUBw&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tool 2025 New Zealand Show<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ticket information available <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toolband.com\/content\/tour\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Saturday, November 22nd<\/strong><br \/>Spark Arena, Auckland, NZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tool are coming to New Zealand. Announced today (September 16th), the US prog-metal icons will play Spark Arena on Saturday, November 22nd. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, September 22nd, while the Tool Army pre-sale commences on Wednesday, September 17th at 12pm NZST. 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