Snoop Dogg and
Sean "Diddy" Combs have announced a major European concert tour, that
will feature the former foes as co-headliners of the Snoop/Diddy Tour. The
18-city tour kicks off March 12 in Oslo, Norway and wraps up with a performance
at the Nottingham Arena in the United Kingdom in April. The rappers will visit
numerous cities, including Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Belgium, Holland
and Ireland. Diddy
will perform selections from his latest album Press Play, while Snoop and
his backing band The Snoopadelics, will hit the road in support of his latest
album, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.The
announcement marks Snoop’s first major appearances in the United Kingdom, since
the rapper was involved in an airport brawl in April in London’s Heathrow Airport.Snoop
and an entourage of almost 30 people were en route from Los Angeles to Johannesburg,
South Africa, to perform at a major festival, when certain members were denied
entry into British Airways’ first-class lounge. A
huge brawl ensued, resulting in seven officers being injured. As a result of the
brawl, Snoop was banned from flying British Airways. The
rapper was then allegedly banned by the UK’s Home Office, because of his previous
criminal record in the United States.Any
alleged ban on Snoop Dogg appearing in the United Kingdom has been lifted, as
the tour calls for stops in London, Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow and Nottingham.
Snoop
and Diddy were one time rivals and central figures in a feud between Death Row
Records and Bad Boy Entertainment. The bad blood between the two labels resulted
in an "East coast/West coast" feud, which climaxed with the tragic,
unsolved murders of Death Row rapper Tupac Shakur and Bad Boy artist The Notorious
B.I.G. Tour
dates for the Diddy/Snoop Dogg European Tour are listed below:MARCH12
Oslo, Norway Spektrum13 Copenhagen, Denmark The Forum14 Berlin, Germany
Max Schmelling Halle15 Stuttgart, Germany Schleyerhalle16 Hamburg, Germany
Sporthalle17 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle18 Munich, Germany Olympiahalle19
Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion21 Paris, France Bercy22 Paris, France
Bercy23 Dusseldorf, Germany Philipshalle24 Brussels, Belgium Forest National25
Amsterdam, Holland Heineken Music Hall27 London, UK Wembley Arena28 Cardiff,
UK Cardiff International Arena29 Manchester, UK MEN Arena30 Glasgow, UK
SECC (Hall 4)31 Dublin, Ireland The PointAPRIL1
Dublin, Ireland The Point2 Nottingham, UK Nottingham Arena