Nickelback to perform in Alabama on âGet Rollinââ tour: How to get tickets
Nickelback: Love ‘em or hate ‘em? Either way, you’ll want to know that the Canadian rock band is touring to support its “Get Rollin’” album — and one of the stops is in Alabama.
Nickelback is set to play on Sept. 16 at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Pelham, promoter Red Mountain Entertainment announced on Thursday. Tickets for the 6:30 p.m. show go on sale Tuesday, June 13, at 10 a.m. CT via Ticketmaster/Live Nation. Prices are TBA. The bill also includes Brantley Gilbert and Austin Snell.
Various pre-sales start on Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m. CT, according to the Ticketmaster listing, and run through Monday, June 12, at 10 p.m. CT.
Nickelback previously announced 37 concert dates, June 12-Aug. 27, to support “Get Rollin’,” which was released in November 2022. Earlier this week, Nickelback teased additional shows for the tour, along with the creation of a “six wheeled, ridiculous boogie van” inspired by the cover art for “Get Rollin’.”
The custom van, painted yellow with a red stripe, will be parked at Nickelback’s tour stops, Nickelback’s frontman, Chad Kroeger, said in a Monday video on social media. The idea, he said, is for fans to take photos with the van and post the images to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and the like.
Although the Pelham show wasn’t confirmed until Thursday, Oak Mountain Amphitheatre teased the concert announcement on Wednesday with a social media post of its own. The post featured — you guessed it — a photo of a yellow-and-red van. “Look at this photograph … and check back tomorrow,” the post said.
Nickelback, formed in the mid-1990s, reached its greatest fame in the 2000s with albums such as “Silver Side Up” (2001), “The Long Road” (2003), “All the Right Reasons” (2005) and “Dark Horse” (2008). The band became known for hit singles including “How You Remind Me,” “Someday,” “Photograph,” “Rockstar” and more.
Nickelback also has several accolades to its credit, including Billboard Music Awards, Juno Awards, MTV Video Music Awards and American Music Awards. The band’s current lineup features lead singer Chad Kroeger, bassist Mike Kroeger, guitarist/keyboard player Ryan Peake and drummer Daniel Adair.
Nickelback has performed in the Birmingham area in the past, appearing in 2006 at the BJCC Arena (now called Legacy Arena at the BJCC) and in 2009 at Oak Mountain (then called the Verizon Wireless Music Center).
Although Nickelback has achieved mainstream success, the band has been a polarizing force in the music world. Fans cheer for Nickelback with enthusiasm; detractors slam the music as mediocre, derivative or deeply uncool.
Nickelback keeps on rolling, however, as evidenced by the new album and tour. In recent radio interviews, Chad Kroeger has even mentioned benefits to the backlash, saying it keeps the band in the public eye.
“All the detractors, all the haters, all the keyboard heroes, they have no idea how much they keep us in the press loop,” Kroeger said, according to a report from Blabbermouth. “It’s hilarious. Those people that would love to see us go away, if they really wanted to see us go away, they would just shut up. Because all those bands that came out with us at the same time are all gone, because nobody said anything about them. They all just sort of disappeared. But we’ve really kind of spun this whole negative thing into a positive thing. And here we are.”