TSB Bank Arena
# TSB Bank Arena

The TSB Bank Arena (formerly known as the Queens Wharf Events Centre) is an indoor arena in Wellington.

## About

The arena hosts mainly basketball games and is the home arena for the Century City Saints and part-time home arena of the New Zealand Breakers when they play in Wellington. It was also the home arena for the Richter City Roller Derby, which started to play here in the middle of their 2009 season.

It also hosts expositions and conventions like the Armageddon Pulp Expo and the DCM Book Fair. Built in 1995, it originally held 3,635 people. In 2005, the number of seats was upgraded to 4,570 as part of a redevelopment and expansion plan. There were further plans to carry out upgrades to the Events Centre in 2007 although it is unknown if these plans went ahead.

It also operates as a music venue, but does not have ideal acoustics and professional sound treatment; for example, the retractable stadium traps all reflections (early and late) also acting as a bass trap (wanted or unwanted), thus impairing a clear sound. As a live venue, it is still able attract overseas acts.

In 2005, the annual World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW) show moved from Nelson to Wellington, to the TSB Arena.

In a feature article from 11 April 2007 edition of the Dominion Post, the Wellington Architectural Centre rated TSB Arena as Wellington's second worst building. Also in 2007 the first Māori Art Market was held in the arena before moving to the suburban Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua City.

In July 2011 Venues Wellington (formally Positively Wellington Venues), an integration between the Wellington Convention Centre and the St James Theatre Trust, began managing the arena along with five other venues in the capital city.

## Concerts

Concerts held at TSB Arena :

| Date | Artists | Events |
| - | - | - |
| 1996 |||
| 4 May | Red Hot Chili Peppers | One Hot Minute Tour |
| 1997 |||
| 9 April | Tina Turner | Wildest Dreams Tour |
| 10 April | Tina Turner | Wildest Dreams Tour |
| 1998 |||
| 29 January | Radiohead | OK Computer Tour |
| 23 February | Robbie Williams | Talk on Corners World Tour |
| 26 February | Pearl Jam | Yield Tour |
| 10 March | Oasis | Be Here Now Tour |
| 10 April | Van Halen | III Tour |
| 17 April | Metallica | Poor Re-Touring Me Tour |
| 10 September | Bob Dylan | Never Ending Tour 1998 |
| 30 November | Janet Jackson | The Velvet Rope Tour |
| 1 December | Janet Jackson | The Velvet Rope Tour |
| 3 December | Janet Jackson | The Velvet Rope Tour |
| 1999 |||
| 2 October | Alanis Morissette | Junkie Tour |
| 2002 |||
| 25 November | Pink | Party Tour |
| 2008 |||
| 10 May | Westlife | Back Home Tour |
| 10 September | Disturbed | Indestructible Tour |
| 29 October | Rihanna | Good Girl Gone Bad Tour |
| 2 December | Kanye West | Glow in the Dark Tour |
| 7 December | Alicia Keys | As I Am Tour |
| 2009 |||
| 20 January | Leonard Cohen | 2008 - 2010 World Tour |
| 2010 |||
| 30 January | Them Crooked Vultures | Deserve the Future Tour |
| 27 April | John Mayer | Battle Studies World Tour |
| 14 August | Tiësto | Kaleidoscope World Tour |
| 7 October | Paramore | Brand New Eyes World Tour |
| 31 October | Leonard Cohen | Leonard Cohen Tour 2008-2010 |
| 1 November | Leonard Cohen | Leonard Cohen Tour 2008-2010 |
| 2011 |||
| 4 May | Disturbed | Asylum Tour |
| 10 May | Katy Perry | California Dreams Tour |
| 26 October | Meat Loaf | Guilty Pleasure Tour |
| 2012 |||
| 2 February | Sharon Corr | Dream of You Tour |
| 12 April | Reece Mastin | Live in New Zealand |
| 5 November | The Black Keys | El Camino Tour |
| 2013 |||
| 21 February | Reece Mastin | Beautiful Nightmare Tour |
| 17 November | OneRepublic | Native Tour |
| 17 December | Leonard Cohen | Old Ideas World Tour |
| 18 December | Leonard Cohen | Old Ideas World Tour |
| 2014 |||
| 20 March | Nine Inch Nails | Twenty Thirteen Tour |
| 3 May | Arctic Monkeys | AM Tour |
| 2015 |||
| 18 February | Slash | World on Fire World Tour |
| 10 April | Ed Sheeran | x Tour |
| 18 April | Ricky Martin | One World Tour |
| 2017 |||
| 24 March | Twenty One Pilots | Emotional Roadshow World Tour |
| 21 November | Take That | Wonderland Live |
| 2018 |||
| 23 May | Imagine Dragons | Evolve World Tour |
