Heading to Bryan Adams Auckland show? Here's everything you need to know

It's the summer of '25, and Bryan Adams’ will be wrapping up the NZ leg of his So Happy It Hurts tour in Auckland on Tuesday. 

If you're lucky enough to be heading along, here's everything you need to know.

TIMES:

7pm: Doors open
7:45pm: James Arthur
9pm: Bryan Adams

SETLIST:

Here's the setlist Bryan played in Christchurch over the weekend:

Kick Ass
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
Somebody
18 til I Die
Please Forgive Me
Shine a Light
Take Me Back
Heaven
Go Down Rockin'
It's Only Love (with snippets of 'The Best' and 'What's Love Got To Do With It'; tribute to Tina Turner)
You Belong to Me
Rock and Roll Hell (KISS cover)
The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You
Here I Am
When You're Gone
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
Always Have, Always Will
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
Back to You
So Happy It Hurts
Run to You
Summer of '69
Cuts Like a Knife

Encore:
Straight From the Heart
All for Love (Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting cover)

What you can bring into Spark Arena:

Please leave all large bags at home! There will be patdowns, security wanding, and a full bag search on entry, so don't bring backpacks or any large handbags.

All bags larger than 30cm x 30cm will not be allowed inside the venue and will need to be left at the external bag check area for the duration of the show.

Cameras with a detachable lens, iPads, GoPro's, and selfie sticks are also not allowed.

You can purchase food from the bar that you can take into the show. Free water coolers are available around the arena, too. Please note that Spark Arena is cashless.

Spark Arena is a smokefree and vapefree venue.

MERCHANDISE:

The merch caravan will be open by 6pm selling official merchandise items. The caravan is located outside the arena on the main plaza.
A merchandise outlet on the upper level will be open to bowl-seated ticketholders once the external doors open.

GETTING THERE:

If you're being dropped off or picked up, the best meeting point is by the footbridge on Quay Street.

There are some parking facilities in surrounding streets, but if you park somewhere that is later subject to road closures or parking restrictions, you may be towed or delayed leaving.

The closest parking facilities are:

• Arena Car Park (Dockside Lane, off Tapora Street, about 5 min walk)
• Britomart Car Park (Corner of Quay Street and Britomart Place, about 8 min walk)
• Railway Car Park (Te Taou Crescent, off Beach Road, about 5 min walk)
• Tangihua Street Car Park (Tangihua Street, about 6 min walk)

There is limited onsite mobility parking for patrons holding a current mobility parking permit, but these spaces must be pre-booked as they fill up quickly. Spaces are allocated on a first come first served basis.

For all transport details visit https://at.govt.nz/.

TICKET INFO:

All Tickets are Mobile Ticket Only. Mobile Tickets are like Print-at-Home tickets but instead of having to print off the tickets yourself, you can just show the barcode on your mobile phone.

Only tickets purchased via the respective approved ticketing agent (Ticketmaster) are valid for entry to the show.

Tickets purchased via reseller sites such as Viagogo, The Ticket Merchant, Ticketblaster, Queen of Tickets, E-Bay or Gumtree are not guaranteed to gain entry into the event.

Your bay, row, and seat number can be found on your ticket. Please only enter via the gate specified on your ticket. 

If you find yourself unable to access your ticket on your mobile phone at the venue, please visit the Ticketmaster Box Office next to Entry B. You will need to provide some form of ID so that the Box Office staff can access your Ticketmaster account details.