Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

30 Seconds to Mars to tour SA

24 Aug 2010

5FM and Big Concerts have just announced that rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars will be returning to South Africa headlining two dates on 19 November at the Coca-Cola Dome Joburg and in Cape Town on 21 November 2010 at the Grand Arena, Grand West.

Thirty Seconds to Mars feature Jared Leto on lead vocals/guitar, Shannon Leto on drums and Tomo Milicevic on guitar. Together they've sold over 3.5 million albums worldwide and have been viewed over 100 million times on Youtube.

In 2002 they released their self titled debut album. This was followed by 'A Beautiful Lie' (2005) which produced two Top 5 Modern Rock singles in 'From Yesterday' and 'The Kill' which set a record for the longest running hit in the history of Modern Rock radio when it remained on the national airplay chart for more than 50 weeks following its No. 3 peak in 2006.

Their latest release 'This is War' (2009) has been called their strongest and most accomplished work to date, spending 12 weeks on the 5FM Top 40. For this they enlisted two of the most influential producers in the world: Flood (U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins) and Steve Lillywhite (U2, Rolling Stone, Peter Gabriel) who gave the band freedom and confidence to explore different sound, textures and ideas.

"5FM is thrilled to be welcoming 30 Seconds to Mars back to South Africa!" says Aisha Mohamed, station manager for 5FM.

Thirty Seconds to Mars have won numerous awards including an MTV Music Video Award, three MTV EMAs, MTV Latin, Asia and Australia Awards, a Fuse Award and three Kerrang! Awards. The band have played over 500 shows around the world including Lollapalooza in the US, Download in the UK, Germany's Rock Am Ring, Japans Summer Sonic and South Africa's My Coke Fest in 2008.