US band Train to tour South Africa in 2024

Dubbed I Know, It’s Been a Long Time Coming, the concert follows the group’s summer headline tour that was held in nearly 50 US cities. It is expected to bring fans across the globe to an epic night of music filled with the band’s most iconic hits spanning three decades.

The international tour will kick-off on 26 April in Manchester and will mark the Train’s first UK show in seven years, and will travel through cities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. The will also include Train’s first-ever performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 30 April and thereafter, in May, the band will make its way down to South Africa for their first-ever live performance on Mzansi soil.

“After 25 years of releasing Train’s first album, we are finally going to South Africa, a place we’ve all dreamt of since we were little kids,” Train frontman Pat Monahan said. “What a beautiful and treasured gift music has been for us. We can’t wait to be there and perform for what we know will be an incredible and beautiful group of people.”

Since its formation in 1994, Train has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100, 13 albums on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide. The band’s global hit ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ continues to reach new milestones – it was the No 1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, achieved RIAA Diamond status in 2021 and is now 11 times platinum. In 2022, it surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.

The band is comprised of frontman Pat Monahan (lead vocals), Hector Maldonado (bass, vocals), Jerry Becker (keyboards, vocals), Taylor Locke (guitar, vocals), Matt Musty (drums), Sakai Smith (backup vocals), and Nikita Houston (backup vocals).

Tickets to the Cape Town and Johannesburg gigs can be purchased here from 29 September.