Robbie Williams is an even better man now.
The Mission Concert 2023 star became a Mission superstar 13 months before the event, a second concert being quickly confirmed after the first show, slated for November next year, sold out when tickets hit the market today.
He will now appear at the famed hillside vineyard venue on the outskirts of Taradale on both the Saturday of November 11 and the Sunday of November 12, 2023, with more than 33,000 tickets sold by early afternoon on.
Concert producer James Erskine, chairman of Australian promoter Sports and Entertainment Ltd, told Hawke's Bay Today the first concert of about 25,000 tickets had sold out, and by early afternoon more than 8500 tickets had sold for the second night out.
Few would have known of the new opportunity at the time they clicked to enter the cyberqueue waiting to purchase, he says.