Guns N’ Roses will not be allowed to perform late while on tour in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
The band is slated to perform at the Gillette Stadium on July 19 and 20, but unfortunately for them the town has a curfew of 11:15 p.m. for live music. Management’s request for the curfew to be prolonged until 11:40 p.m. has officially been denied.
Ginny Coppola, who serves as a town councilor in Foxboro, said in a statement to The Sun Chronicle, “This is on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. If this was a weekend, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But it’s a work night. This isn’t going to be an acoustic evening. It’s going to be loud.”
According to NME, Taylor Swift received an extended curfew until 11:40 p.m. when she performed at the Gillette Stadium in 2015. But the town councilors claim that this was a different matter entirely since her show was on a weekend.
Apparently the stadium’s advisory committee had approved the later show, but their approval was drowned out by the town councilors.
Their summer reunion tour is slated to run from June 23 to Aug. 22, and all dates willl be occurring in North America. Axl Rose is additionally on tour with AC/DC and performed his first concert with the group at London’s Olympic Stadium this past weekend.
Guns N’ Roses also has some special guests for their Not In This Lifetime Tour, including Alice In Chains, who will perform with them on opening night in Detroit, Michigan until their date in Chicago on July 3. Lenny Kravitz will be joining the band for their date in Foxboro on July 19, and will then perform again with them in New Jersey on July 24.
“I don’t normally do gigs like this,” Kravitz recently said to Rolling Stone. “But sometimes you’ve got to do things for the fun of it, for the experience. I’m looking forward to playing with them and celebrating them coming back together.”
