Armin's Unofficial 2008/2009 Tour Schedule

2008.11.20 Bankok Thailand @ KF Club
2008.11.21 Manila Phillipines @ World Trade Center
2008.11.22 Seoul Korea @ Club Volume
2008.11.23 Tokyo Japan @ Ageha
2008.11.29 Poznan Poland - Armin Only @ Hala Arena
2008.12.05 Barcelona Spain @ She Discoteca
2008.12.06 Utrecht Netherlands @ Essence Festival Jaarbeurs
2008.12.07 St Julian Malta @ Eden Arena
2008.12.19 Birmingham UK @ Air - Godskitchen Xmas Special
2008.12.19 London UK @ Ministry of Sound
2008.12.20 Prague Czech Republic @ Slovanský dům
2008.12.26 Belfast Northern Ireland @ Planet Love - King's Hall
2008.12.26 Liverpool UK @ Cream
2008.12.31 Los Angeles USA - Armin Only @ Together Arena
2009.01.03 Brisbane Australia @ Summafieldayze Festival
2009.01.04 Perth Australia @ Summadayze Festival

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Hey peeps,

I'm probably not the only one being bummed by the fact that Armin's official tour schedule is updated so infrequently and late. This subforum has proven to be a lot more informative in terms of acquiring info on future gigs. So I thought it would be handy to combine all the reported dates in one list. Please note that this list is compiled based on information that has been reported by various people on this and other sites. This is not the official gig list, which can be found here.

Here's a reader reference towards the status of the mentioned dates:

Confirmed
Likely but unconfirmed
Rumor

If you have a new entry, correction or confirmation to the list please reply to this topic or PM me, I will update it asap

Great Idea Ericc!

25th of July he will be at Sunrise Festival 2008 @ Kolobrzeg, Poland
26th of July im guessing he will be at Global Gathering @ Long Marston Airfield, Stratford Upon Avon, UK considering he is confirmed on the line-up and he will be at sunrise the day before hand.

Is Armin not going to play every week on Ibiza ?

Btw all Russian Funs a pray on book Armin for Sensation White Russia 11/06/2008 but looks like he is on tour in Australia these days....

According to Daan's interview he will play 12 of the 15 Armada @ Amnesia events. I deliberately only listed the opening party and the 12th of august because based on previous years they seem to be the most certain. But yes there will be 10 more performances added as soon as there's reliable info.


Thanks, added!

think the cleveland one is actually st louis

i could be wrong though, you guys find out about our gigs before we do

Pretty sad isn't it?

Anyway keep us posted The US tour dates come from a flyer that Ultra Records distributed in Miami during WMC. There's a few known errors on it, the worst being a WMC gig at Pawnshop on Friday that didn't happen at all.

I wonder when the tix will be public for the San diego and LA shows!?

go to groovetickets or San Diego Ticket

They haven't listed his LA gig.

good idea, its such a shame that they only post gigs 2 months before hand on this site, for people who are traveling a long distance that bit of extra time is needed to sort out flights and hotels!

I wonder if Armin will be @ Mysteryland again this year since it's almost sure Tiësto has it's own stage this year..

Armin @ Sunrise in Poland

Official site:

http://sunrisefestival.pl/

Get ticket here:

http://www.ticketonline.pl/portal/start.js...d=2877&lid=

or here

http://mdt-agency.pl/tickets/?language=en

Saturday tickets already Sold-out,
Friday tickets are still available, almost sold out

Armin @ Vision, Chicago May 24

Official site

http://www.visionnightclub.com/news/details2.php?article=514

tickets here:

http://www.wantickets.com/affiliates/affil...9220&id=367



my brother is probably going there

oh no! i hope thats not true i really want to go to mysteryland this year but im not going if theres no armin!

Tommorowland site -> http://www.tomorrowland.be/

Pre-sale on saturday from the website!

Armin @ Gatecrasher Nottingham
http://www.gatecrasher.com/nottingham/

Tickets -> http://www.epeddlers.co.uk/shop/gatecrashe...active&c=15 but shop seems to be down at the moment

Armin @ Global Gathering
http://www.globalgathering.co.uk/

Tickets -> http://globalgathering2008.trinitystreetdi...etselection.asp

31st may - Armin is @ Syndicate in bristol and timeflies in cardiff....

Syndicate: http://www.dontstayin.com/uk/bristol/the-s.../chat/k-2540317

Time Flies: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12950337451

He's playing 12-2 in bristol and 3-5 in cardiff

wow thank u very much Eric for your time and effort on doing this and yes i am very pissed too that dates are announced so late every time... So far 3 times I had to book flights for his gigs without even having seen an official announcment for them!

But what is going wrong exactly? Does it have to do with agencies or sth?? For example why pvd has already announced his summer gigs at ibiza? Or if u check tiesto's page,u ll see that his "fixed" dates are till May but yet there are 2 more announced in July...aaah,whatever... I suppose that all these are just rhetorical questions...

I talked earlier to Armin about this. He said that they are not allowed to announce a gig before the local promoter that books him announces it himself. Which I can understand. But he agreed that often when gigs have been announced locally it still takes forever for them to be published on his own site. He said he would talk to "the guys at the office" about that. That was two months ago.

In the meantime nothing has changed. It seems the problem lies within the Armada backoffice. I hate to be a critic on this all the time but everything there seems to be targeted at releasing the umptieth 20 Trance Tunes compilation every week. The site, the forum and alike digital channels simply do not get the attention they should get. For example there's gonna be 5 more Armin Only's besides the ones in NL and Aussie. Why the hell aren't the dates announced yet? And what about the Amnesia schedule? They organize the whole thing themselves over there for crying out loud. Get those damn dates out in the open, people wanna go there and need to book their flights and their hotels. We don't wanna gamble, book some week and then end up getting stuffed with bloody Oakenfold. But what can we do? By the time Armada finally publishes the Amnesia schedule all the flights are 1000 euro and hotels ditto. And that doesn't go just for Amnesia, that goes for almost all his gigs.
For those of us who like to travel to see Armin abroad (like me and numerous other members here) that plain right sucks.

Btw I posted this unofficial list and bam within one day the official list is (though only partially) updated. Could be a coincidence of course

EDIT: It was brought to my attention that Armada itself is not responsible for publishing Armin's gig list but David Lewis Productions is. It's therefore not fair to blame Armada for the lack of information.

Don't think its a coincidence

Yes this is terrible.. For example Paul Van Dyk Ibiza schedule announced like month or more ago...

I´ll see him in Sevilla next May 3rd...AMAZING TUNES 4 THAT NIGHT!!!

B3 SEVILLA BOOOM!!!!

Excactly. But what can we do? By the time Armada finally publishes the Amnesia schedule all the flights are 1000 euro and hotels ditto. And that doesn't go just for Amnesia, that goes for a lot of his gigs. For those of us who like to travel to see Armin abroad (like me and numerous other members here) that plain right sucks. My gf and I wanna go to the 8th AO (the only one that has not been mentioned), which will be in Mexico. But we both have jobs and we need to plan this stuff way ahead. If this lack of information goes on then we will probably end up not being able to go because by the time we know the date flights and hotels will cost an arm and a leg and we can't get the time off in our work schedules anymore

So Armin + David, I'm sure I speak for others here as well: PLEASE sort this out. It really sucks and it's really easy to solve.

+1 to that with bold,red-striking,no7 letters!!!!
Those lines just express what I wanted to say too!

It really aches me that i see the flights for ibiza getting more and more expensive week by week on August cause simply we dont know yet whether to book on August 5th or 12th! or for Mykonos this year...I convinced a dutch friend of mine to book the flights for July 31st (200 euros now) cause if we had to wait till june or so flights would be like 500 euros! and many more examples......

So a huuuuuuge PLEASE from me as well to short this out asap!!

Girl... go no matter what!!! It's an amazing party

In my opinion, and it's pretty clear to see at sold-out gigs, Armada knows that no matter which gig
Armin plays it'll get sold-out 99% of the time. So it's not like their priority lies with cca. 5 people
albeit they're traveling halfway around the globe they aren't or can't be a priority, sadly.
It hasn't been any different in say past 4 years and I can't see it being any different in the future.

Unfortunately you are right. Spending 5 minutes a day on website content management obviously is a heavy burden.

Well Armin did however mention that he'd try and sort out better conditions for some fans in question,
however after paying cca. $2000 for these long trips there's only so much he can do to console you.

I just want to know when and where his gig are, not just the ones for tomorrow or next week.

But yes if he can do something that prevents us from getting stuck in stupid 3.5 hour entry line rows that would be really appreciated as well.

Update

Mmmm, sweet! Sorting out the flights atm

Good idea!

Add this as well: Armin plays at the biggest electronic music festival in Hungary, near the beautifull lake of Balaton. Festival on the beach!

July 11 - Armin van Buuren @ Balaton Sound Festival

http://www.sziget.hu/balatonsound

movie from last year:
http://www.sziget.hu/balatonsound/hirek/107113.html

i think the may 7th gig (5/7) is really supposed to be july 5th (7/5) in nyc

Hmz yeah you might be right. It's not on May 7th that's for sure. Another error on that Ultra flyer from Miami...

Any reference to 5th of July?

Probably www.madeevent.com has info soon.

rumor has it that the july 5th gig will be announced soon and be an outdoor event

Various updates!


Thanks Blake, you were right

What´s about citymoves in Enschede?
http://citymoves.nl/enschede_index.html

translating:
Citymoves in Enschede!

The location is still unknown, but it's sure that Citymoves comes to Enschede. No matter at what place it's gonna be, it's certain that there's gonna be a great party starting at 14.00 hours on june 1st. The most popular DJ of 2007, Armin van Buuren and ATB will be there with some other DJs to let you hear their sound. To make sure the day is going to be perfect there will be lockers available on the field, als toilets and sdiverse food stands plus a big bar will be there.

Good find

Armin Only in Bucharest on 28.6 now officially confirmed on arminonly.com

I really appreciate youre efforts here Eric, but isn't this armada's work?

What the hell are they doing with this forum?

Seems nothing to me and it is run by, fortunatly, a group of real AvB Fans.

Well done to you , but not for Armada

Technically it's David Lewis Productions' work, not Armada's. DLP is Armin's booking agent and therefore also the publisher of his gigs.

But regardless whose responsibility it is they're doing a lousy job. They just don't seem to get that not everybody on this planet has their own booking agency for a famous DJ and therefore the time and money to do whatever they want and go where ever they want whenever they want. A lot of Armin's fans need to travel to see him but also have jobs and responsibilities. They need to know stuff in advance to make proper arrangements with employers to get days off and find affordable prices for flights and hotels.

Oh well I don't think I need to explain this anymore. We all know it. The problem is that they don't seem to care

July 5: http://www.madeevent.com/

He's playing at the McCarren pool again in Brooklyn. Kind of a nice location, too bad it's in the middle of a living area so the music can't go loud. Ah well, I won't be there anyway.

Last year was awful there. One of my worst Armin gigs for 2007... not because of Armin, either.

the only good thing is that the party is on a saturday this year, so maybe armin will spin at an afterhours

Hey Every1..
I am a new member on this forum.. I am a great fan of Armin van Buuren...
Can any1 tell me when the 'maestro' is to wow the crowds of South Africa?

Probably not anytime soon if you look at his current schedule. And for the rest, just make sure he get's booked again http://forum.arminvanbuuren.com/index.php?showtopic=6595

i just hope he'll get booked for this summer in Montréal or else i'm getting mad
or i just might go to New York

He probably won't because there's gonna be a full blown Armin Only show in Canada right after the summer

Ok, so i called the MYST club, and Armin is NOT playing there.. Armada/DLP is a **** joke... he is playing at AXIS/RADIUS..

here is the flyer and here is the website for the club... probably one of the best clubs i have seen online...

Modertator please inform ARMADA/DAVID LEWIS, and tell them to change it to ARMIN @ AXIS-RADIUS and NOT MYST.. THANK YOU...

least someone here gives a damn about this....

Tickets already on sale...


http://www.axis-radius.com/

Small but not unimportant change to the list:

The Amnesia Closing Party is now officially announced to be on September the 16th, instead of the 23rd.