Top Gear Live: Extra 4,000 Tickets Just Released

(For immediate release)

Tuesday 13th January 2009

Don’t Miss Out on Top Gear Live Tickets Twice! Previously Sold Out, an Extra 4,000 Tickets Just Released.

Getting a ticket to the sold out Top Gear Live stage show, Auckland, February 12-15th 2009, has been harder than getting your hands on a McLaren F1 with tickets for all 10 shows racing out the door in record time!

Now, due to heavy demand and requests from enthusiastic fans, an extra 4,000 A-Reserve tickets will be released at 9am Tuesday January 13th through Ticketek – definitely your last chance to get to see those amazing superstars of motoring, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond in a stunning live performance. These are expected to sell-out within days, so fans are advised to get in quick.

Described as ‘Cirque du Soleil on Wheels’, the much anticipated Top Gear Live show is a winner with blokes and women, young and old, with sell out shows around the world and rave reviews from happy fans. There’s something to satisfy every car enthusiast and Top Gear fan with 75 minutes of breath-taking stunts and driving sequences from some of the world’s best precision drivers - plus live versions of regular formats of the Top Gear programme, all brought to life with stunning stage effects and pyrotechnics.

This will be the first time the New Zealand public has been able to get up close to the Top Gear presenters. Bringing their cheeky and irreverent humour to the show, you can expect that anything-but-modest witty banter from the guys, "We've turned your motoring television show into the most spectacular motoring theatre show in the universe," said Clarkson. "We'll be taking all the best bits of Top Gear, and ambitiously attempting them live on stage."

Greg Murphy is thrilled to be the 3rd presenter and is looking forward to building up a rapport with the guys. His cheeky summary of the Top Gear guys included Clarkson as “The Big Man with a huge head with the job most men (and women) would kill for”and Hammond as “Similar, but with obvious changes.”

For those that can’t make it to the theatre show there is also the Top Gear Live Luxury Car Exhibition on the side, tickets go on sale for this on Wednesday January 14th at 9am. For $15 entry (free for Top Gear Live show ticket holders) this is one luxury car exhibition you won’t want to miss, with a showcase of everything from the latest car gadgets to some of the most expensive, rare and stylish cars in the world. Part of the Exhibition includes the infamous Stig’s Lair - an exclusive den with all the latest and greatest racing consoles, trigger and track racing, and is your chance to really experience the thrill of the track. Challenge the rest of the Top Gear Live audience to get the best time on the interactive New Zealand trigger raceway.

The Turtle Wax Hall of Fame has some of the top marques and brands featured in the show. Mercedes, Porsche, Jaguar and Volvo are just a few of the top car brands set to wow Top Gear Live audience members as they go on display. Expect to see models such as AMG Mercedes, Jaguar XS, Range Rover Sport, Volvo XC60, and the Renault Megane R26 in all their motoring glory. More models are to be confirmed at the time of this release.

Tickets to both events are on sale from www.ticketek.co.nz
For more information please visit www.topgearlive.co.nz

Show Dates:
Thurs 12th - 6.30pm
Friday 13th - 5pm & 8pm
Saturday 14th - 11am, 2pm, 5pm & 8pm
Sunday 15th - 11am, 2pm & 5pm

ENDS

About Top Gear Live
Top Gear Live is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Brand Events UK.
The live motoring performance incorporates the drama of film and theatre with the thrills and spills of stunts and special effects. Presenters Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond team up with a local presenter in each tour destination. The tour is on course to play to a total worldwide audience of over 300,000 with a further tour planned for 2009 which is earmarked to include Germany, Netherlands, Poland and Russia.

About DMG World Media
Top Gear Live is brought to New Zealand by DMG World Media.
DMG World Media is an international exhibition and publishing company, producing more than 300 market-leading business to business exhibitions, consumer shows and fairs worldwide, with more than 30 offices around the world in countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, the United Arab Emirates, China, Australia and New Zealand.
DMG World Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Daily Mail & General Trust plc (DMGT). As a member of the FTSE 250, DMGT is ranked as one of Britain's largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.
In New Zealand, DMG World Media (NZ) Ltd stages 13 consumer and trade shows each year, servicing a total of 4000 exhibitors and 300,000 visitors. The biggest of these is the Auckland Home Show, now the largest home and garden products show in Australasia and Big Boys Toys, Australasia’s largest male lifestyle exhibition.
Visit the website at: www.dmgworldmedia.com

About BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The company exists to maximise the value of the BBC’s assets for the benefit of the licence payer and invest in public service programming in return for rights. The company has seven core businesses: BBC Worldwide Channels, BBC Worldwide Content & Production, BBC Worldwide Digital Media, BBC Worldwide Global Brands, BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution, BBC Magazines and BBC Home Entertainment. In 2007/08, BBC Worldwide generated profits of £117.7million on sales of £916.3million.

Brand Events UK
Brand Events was formed in 1999 and has launched some of the UK’s most popular shows including MPH, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, The Outdoors and Vitality shows and more recently the Taste Festivals series of events. The 'Taste' format runs in seven cities throughout the UK and Ireland and locations around the world including Johannesburg, Dubai and Sydney. In 2009 Taste will run in 19 different cities around the world.

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