The Wall Live (concert tour)

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The Wall Live
Tour by Roger Waters
Start date 15 September 2010
End date 21 September 2013 (to current date)
Legs 6
Shows 98 in North America
91 in Europe
15 in Oceania
15 in South America
219 in Total
Roger Waters tour chronology
The Dark Side of the Moon Live
(2006–2008)
The Wall Live
(2010–2013)

The Wall Live is a worldwide[1] concert tour by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd.[2][3][4] The tour is the first time the Pink Floyd album The Wall has been performed in its entirety by the band or any of its former members since Waters performed the album live in Berlin 21 July 1990. According to Cole Moreton of the Daily Mail, "The touring version of Pink Floyd's The Wall is one of the most ambitious and complex rock shows ever staged."[5] It is estimated that the tour cost £37 million ($60M) to stage.[5] The first leg of the tour grossed in North America over $89.5 million from 56 concerts. It was the second highest grossing concert tour in North America in 2010 and the 6th worldwide.[6] [7]

The tour opened 15 September 2010 in Toronto, and moved through North America before ending the first leg of the tour in Mexico City, 21 December 2010. The European tour began 21 March 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal, and ended 12 July 2011 in Athens, Greece. In 2012, the tour included Australia, New Zealand, and South America, resuming 27 January in Perth, and ending 1 April 2012 in São Paulo.[8] It was confirmed by Waters during an interview with Jimmy Fallon that he would be returning to North America for yet another leg of The Wall tour, beginning 27 April 2012 in Mexico City and ending 21 July 2012 in Quebec City on the Plains of Abraham, a former battlefield.[9][10] This last show in Quebec City was the second largest outdoor production of "The Wall" ever – the largest being the Live in Berlin show.[11] The tour returns to European stadiums again in summer 2013.[12]

Waters, a pacifist, has incorporated an increased emphasis on the show's anti-war message, and he has requested that fans send in pictures of loved ones who have died as a result of wars.[13]

Snowy White[14] (who was a session and tour musician with Pink Floyd in the 1970s, and was in the tour band for the original 1980–81 tour for The Wall) and Dave Kilminster[15] were the first musicians confirmed to be in Waters's touring band. Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon and Michael Lennon of the band Venice were confirmed for backing vocal duties,[16] but Michael Lennon withdrew from the band due to rehearsal difficulties. He was replaced by cousin Pat Lennon, also of Venice. On 23 April, the full band line-up was announced on Roger Waters's Facebook page. Following a charity gig Waters performed with his former Pink Floyd bandmate on 10 July 2010,[17] he confirmed that David Gilmour would guest on "Comfortably Numb" at one show during the tour. Gilmour appeared at the 12 May 2011 show at The O2 Arena, London playing lead guitar on "Comfortably Numb" and mandolin on "Outside the Wall", on which they were also joined by Nick Mason on tambourine.

On 24 August 2010, The Times Leader newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, reported that Waters and company were in town rehearsing for the tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Township. This venue previously hosted pre-tour rehearsals and pre-tour concerts for such performers as Elton John, the Simon & Garfunkel "Old Friends" Reunion Tour in 2003 and AC/DC rehearsals in 2008 before the band's world tour.[18] There were no rehearsals or performances; the crew used the occasion to work out technical details. On 12 September 2010, there was a rehearsal performance at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey for invited guests.[19]

Contents

Musicians [edit]

The Roger Waters Band, Kansas City, 30 October 2010 (from left to right, Kilminster, White, Joyce, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon, Kip Lennon, Wyckoff, Roger Waters, Smith, Harry Waters, Carin, Broad). Behind the band is the "rubble" from the destroyed wall

The following musicians have played on the tour:[20]

  • Roger Waters – bass, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, trumpet on "Outside the Wall"
  • Graham Broad – drums, percussion, ukelele on "Outside the Wall"
  • Jon Carin – keyboards, guitars, lap steel guitar, programming, acoustic guitar on Outside The Wall.
  • Dave Kilminster – guitars, banjo on "Outside the Wall", bass on "Mother"
  • Snowy White – guitars, bass on "Goodbye Blue Sky"
  • Harry Waters – Hammond organ, keyboards, accordion on "Outside the Wall"
  • G. E. Smith – guitars, bass, mandolin on "Outside the Wall"
  • Robbie Wyckoff – lead vocals (songs or parts of songs originally sung by David Gilmour)
  • Jon Joyce – backing vocals
  • Kipp Lennon – backing vocals
  • Mark Lennon – backing vocals
  • Pat Lennon – backing vocals
  • David Gilmour – guest guitarist and singer at Waters' London O2 show, 12 May 2011, pre-recorded harmony vocals on "Is there anybody Out There" line.
  • Nick Mason – guest percussion at Waters' London O2 show, 12 May 2011.

Concert overview [edit]

Pre-show [edit]

The schoolmaster puppet in Kansas City, 30 October 2010

During the pre-show, in the American part of the tour, a man who appears to be homeless pushes a shopping cart around the aisles around the floor seats. He wears a flannel jacket and a cowboy hat, and makes small talk with the fans as he makes his way around the floor. His cart is full of empty soda cans and rubbish and a sign that reads different sayings that vary from show to show, including, "No thought control" on one side and, "Homeless people need money for booze and hookers" on the other. His cart also contains the original stuffed "Pink" doll from 1979. In order, the music that plays during the pre-show are "Mother" by John Lennon, "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan, "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke, "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin and "People Get Ready" by The Impressions. The walk-in audio has differed from city to city ranging from Neil Young tracks to George Carlin comedy routines.

The show [edit]

During the homeless man's tour through the crowd, the pre-show music stops and the sounds of channel surfing can be heard. When the homeless man reaches the stage, the climax of the movie Spartacus is played. A spotlight shines on him and his cart as the sounds of the slaves each claiming to be Spartacus are heard. After which, the man throws "Pink" onto the stage.

For the European shows and all shows in 2012, the homeless man is replaced with two "soldiers", bearing the crossed hammer uniform, who bring the "Pink" puppet onto the stage and hold him throughout the Spartacus clip, before dumping him on the ground and marching off the stage.

As he does this, the audio transitions to a trumpet (later revealed to be Roger Waters) playing the melody of "Outside the Wall".[2] The trumpet playing lingers unaccompanied for about a minute, until the band bursts into "In the Flesh?" with no warning. Fireworks explode across the stage during the opening chords and stage hands with arm bands and flags bearing the marching hammers emblems rise up above the band on lifts hidden in the stage floor. At about mid-song, Waters emerges from the back of the stage, dressed in black. During the climax of the song, a scaled down Stuka Dive Bomber, suspended by a guide wire, flies into the wall and explodes in a fiery ball. During "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" there is a giant inflated puppet schoolmaster, an icon from the original show, which plunges up and down and appears to walk via suspending guide wires. Local school children are brought out onto the stage to lip-sync and dance. From the Berlin 16 June show onwards, Waters sings an acoustic reprise of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" with lyrics referring to the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes before finally greeting the audience and telling them about the filming of the original Wall Tour shows. He then sings "Mother" to a video of him playing the song from the original 1980 tour. He refers to the video as "miserable little Roger." A giant mother blow-up designed on the look of the animated version is featured as well. The song has more of a political message than before, the words "Big Brother Is Watching You" are written on the wall, with the "Br" crossed off and replaced with an "M". After the line "Mother, should I trust the government?" the words "No fucking way" are projected on the wall, as well as a local translation in non-English speaking countries.

The initial projections shown during "Goodbye Blue Sky" caused some controversy. During the song, aeroplanes are shown dropping bombs shaped like Latin crosses, hammer and sickles, dollar signs, star and crescents, Stars of David, the Shell logo, and the Mercedes-Benz logo, with the addition of the McDonald's logo in later shows. The plane dropping dollar signs appeared directly after the plane dropping the Star of David. Although Waters said in Rolling Stone that there was no relevance to the order of the bombs, he changed the order after Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, complained.[21] Waters stated, "Contrary to Mr Foxman's assertion, there are no hidden meanings in the order or juxtaposition of these symbols."[22] These visuals were changed at Waters' request for all future shows, to avoid any sensitive juxtapositions of the symbols used in the video. At the first show of the tour, while these symbols dropped from the plane they also dropped from the ceiling of the Air Canada Centre in little cut-out shapes of confetti that looked like the symbols from the plane. During the song "Don't Leave Me Now" the production features a giant wife puppet similar in design and execution as the Schoolmaster. During the first half on the show, The Wall is slowly built up brick by brick and as with the eighties tour, an instrumental called "The Last Few Bricks" that doesn't appear on the original album is played to give the stage hands extra time to build the wall. At the end of "Goodbye Cruel World", the last brick is put in place and the wall is completed across the stage. An intermission follows with photos and short bios of people lost in conflicts are projected on the wall.

Waters performing in front of The Wall during the guitar solo to "Comfortably Numb"

The second act begins with "Hey You" and is played with minimal visuals on the wall. The band performs, now hidden from the audience's view, from behind the wall. For the acoustic guitar solo piece "Is There Anybody Out There?" a brick is removed so that guitarists Dave Kilminster and G.E. Smith are visible. As "Nobody Home" begins, a section folds out of the wall revealing a small mock hotel room complete with a television, chair, lamp and unmade bed. Waters, in character as "Pink", sings the song while seated on a comfy chair that is on a platform extending from the wall. During "Vera" images of Vera Lynn are displayed on the wall, along with videos of young children being reunited with their veteran fathers. "Bring the Boys Back Home" features Dwight D. Eisenhower's American Society of Newspaper Editors speech. During "Comfortably Numb", Robbie Wyckoff and Dave Kilminster stand on top of the wall as David Gilmour did in the original tour – a performance reprised by Gilmour himself during a one-off appearance at the London O2 show on 12 May 2011. At the end of the song, the projection of the wall explodes and cinematic pillars rise.

The band plays "The Show Must Go On" dressed in black fascist attire complete with the Marching Hammers armbands.[2] Waters' trademarked inflatable pig is released, untethered, during "In the Flesh", and guided by remote control, floats around the venue.[2] Spotlights shine on the audience as Waters interrogates them, pointing out the "riff raff" in the room. Waters is projected onto the wall with a machine gun shooting the audience. During "Run Like Hell", images are displayed on the wall parodying the iPod lowercase "i" fad. Pictures of pigs are shown next to the words "iLead", dogs next to "iProtect", sheep next to "iFollow" (pigs, dogs, and sheep indicating their roles on the Pink Floyd album Animals), George Bush and other leaders next to "iBelieve", Hitler next to "iPaint", children next to "iLearn", and gravestones next to "iPay" among others. In all of the pictures, the subjects are wearing iPods. After this montage, the leaked footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike is played, displaying captions of the American pilots speaking and pointing out Reuters employees Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, whose cameras were mistaken for weapons; after the attack, a banner is projected onto the wall: "Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, We Will Remember You." A burst of gunfire sends it to the ground.

"Waiting for the Worms" features more of Gerald Scarfe's original animation from the film adaptation and tour, except that the infamous sequence of marching hammers has now been replaced with a new computer-generated, cel-shaded version. "Stop" abruptly blacks out the entire wall, with a lone spotlight shining upon the Pink doll from the beginning of the program, which is sitting atop the wall; it is then thrown off of its high perch to the ground.

Gerald Scarfe's animated sequence is displayed during "The Trial". As the song reaches its steady climax and with the crowd shouting "Tear down the Wall", the wall crumbles violently from the top down amid smoke while a flurry of red paper confetti (in the shape of the bomb symbols from earlier in the show) drops on to the audience. The band emerges from behind the rubble and plays "Outside the Wall" with a variety of acoustic instruments. (At certain shows on the Australian leg, the band plays a complete acoustic version of "Waltzing Matilda" immediately after "Outside the Wall" as a rare encore. Similarly, at the shows in Mexico, the band performed "Las Mañanitas" to the tune of "Another Brick in the Wall") Waters introduces the band to the crowd, they bow and then exit the stage.

Critical reception [edit]

Kevin Coffey of the Omaha World-Herald wrote:

Roger Waters and a cast of supporting musicians ... perform[ed] from start to finish one of the most commercially successful, beloved and ambitious art-rock albums in history ... as the show begins, the famous and enormous white wall is erected on stage, brick by brick, until it obscures the band and becomes a screen upon which a dazzling array of videos and visuals are projected. Technically, this was a nearly flawless show. The sound was clean and true. The original album and tour was about isolation. This time around, it was more anti-war, anti-capitalism and anti-poverty than about any kind of psychological issue. In addition to wild and slightly creepy animations from Gerald Scarfe, projections on the wall and video screens showed images of poverty, soldiers and others who died in conflicts as well as video of planes bombing areas with crosses, dollar signs, Shell Oil logos and others.[23]

J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters wrote:

As an immersive concert experience, however, The Wall is an entirely different beast. Its harsh, theatrical nature pulls the audience deep into its storyline and its visuals create the illusion of actually being inside a dynamic, frightening and engrossing movie. Yes, The Wall live is every bit as cinematic as its actual cinema-released counterpart film Pink Floyd – The Wall and will remain a milestone in Pink Floyd and Roger Waters history. The Wall Live has truly been more than a concert tour, but an anti-war, pro-music, theatrical, cinematic, brilliant, inspiring truly immersive, multi-media experience that compliments the history of The Wall and, perhaps, brings it one step farther in its story.[2]

Steve Pick of Stltoday.com said:

"Roger Waters did not put on just an ordinary concert Friday night at the Scottrade Center — he created a huge, technologically complex and metaphorically dense theatrical spectacle."[24] Timothy Fin of the Kansas City Star has this to say about the show, " ... Waters accordingly turned the performance into a[n] epic, gaudy and extravagant piece of theatre – an onslaught of sights, sounds and socio-political themes. Some of it was poignant, some of it was bombastic, some of it was viscerally thrilling, like a great rock show ought to be. But all of it was entertaining."[25]

Kevin Stevens of The Setonian stated:

A hail of firework explosions, hundreds of large rectangular bricks, crashing planes, enormous puppets, 3D effects. Surely, this is not your average concert. Roger Waters' tour of his seminal album, "The Wall," lavishes in this Broadway-esque pomp, but never compromises its music for theatrics. This is a rock concert, one that succeeds in transforming Pink Floyd's brilliant 1979 opus into a compelling aesthetic and auditory experience.[26]

A.D. Amorosi of the Philadelphia City Paper wrote:

"If epic paranoia over monster themes such as megalomania, mother fixation, loneliness, television, the warring industrial complex and the uselessness of fans and celebrity, accompanied by the sounds of unsettling bombast, is what you seek as entertainment, there’s a bridge I can sell you. Or rather, a wall — The Wall, Roger Waters’ semi-autobiographical 1979 magnum opus ...[27]

According to Matt DeMarco of The Hofstra Chronicle online:

Pyrotechnics were used throughout the show, as were massive marionette puppets, representative of several of the opera's supporting characters. The technological aspect of this show was astounding. Musically, the show was just as phenomenal. Waters brought an impressive touring band with him, including lead guitarist Dave Kilminster, who was just spectacular. The solo he delivered during "Comfortably Numb" was absolutely mind-blowing. Waters, himself, proved that rock ‘n roll has no age limit. At 67 years old, the rock icon played a flawless show, hitting notes that he was hitting 30 years ago. His energy was visibly present; he was truly excited to be performing this album for a live crowd again.[28]

Set list [edit]

The Wall album is played in its entirety and two songs not in the original release are included—"What Shall We Do Now?" and "The Last Few Bricks"[29]—both of which were also played at every concert during The Wall Tour in 1980–1981, and documented on the album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81, released in 2000. "One of My Turns", "Don't Leave Me Now" and "Run Like Hell" are all transposed one key down to accommodate Waters' vocal range.

A change was made in the setlist from the Berlin 16 June 2011 show onwards, when Waters added an acoustic coda to "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" with brand new lyrics referring to the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. There has been no official announcement yet, but this is being nicknamed "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) Reprise". This is the first time ever a new song has been added to The Wall—all previous additions to the setlist of the original album either restored unused material (in The Wall film) or added existing songs from Waters' work (in The Wall – Live in Berlin).

Set one [edit]

  1. "In the Flesh?"
  2. "The Thin Ice"
  3. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)"
  4. "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"
  5. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
  6. "The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes" (June 2011 onwards)
  7. "Mother"
  8. "Goodbye Blue Sky"
  9. "Empty Spaces"
  10. "What Shall We Do Now?"
  11. "Young Lust"
  12. "One of My Turns"
  13. "Don't Leave Me Now"
  14. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)"
  15. "The Last Few Bricks"
  16. "Goodbye Cruel World"

Set two [edit]

  1. "Hey You"
  2. "Is There Anybody Out There?"
  3. "Nobody Home"
  4. "Vera"
  5. "Bring the Boys Back Home"
  6. "Comfortably Numb"
  7. "The Show Must Go On"
  8. "In the Flesh"
  9. "Run Like Hell"
  10. "Waiting for the Worms"
  11. "Stop"
  12. "The Trial"
  13. "Outside the Wall"

Tour dates [edit]

Date City Country Venue
North America
15 September 2010 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre
16 September 2010
18 September 2010
20 September 2010 Chicago United States United Center
21 September 2010
23 September 2010
24 September 2010
26 September 2010 Pittsburgh Consol Energy Center
28 September 2010 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena
30 September 2010 Boston TD Garden
1 October 2010
3 October 2010
5 October 2010 New York City Madison Square Garden
6 October 2010
8 October 2010 Buffalo First Niagara Center
10 October 2010 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center
12 October 2010 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
13 October 2010
15 October 2010 Hartford XL Center
17 October 2010 Ottawa Canada Scotiabank Place
19 October 2010 Montreal Bell Centre
20 October 2010
22 October 2010 Columbus United States Value City Arena
24 October 2010 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills
26 October 2010 Omaha Qwest Center Omaha
27 October 2010 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center
29 October 2010 St. Louis Scottrade Center
30 October 2010 Kansas City Sprint Center
3 November 2010 East Rutherford Izod Center
4 November 2010
6 November 2010 New York City Madison Square Garden
8 November 2010 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
9 November 2010
11 November 2010
13 November 2010 Sunrise BankAtlantic Center
14 November 2010
16 November 2010 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum
18 November 2010 Atlanta Philips Arena
20 November 2010 Houston Toyota Center
21 November 2010 Dallas American Airlines Center
23 November 2010 Denver Pepsi Center
26 November 2010 Paradise MGM Grand Garden Arena
27 November 2010 Phoenix US Airways Center
29 November 2010 Los Angeles Staples Center
30 November 2010
3 December 2010 Oakland Oracle Arena
5 December 2010 Los Angeles Staples Center
7 December 2010 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose
8 December 2010
10 December 2010 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
11 December 2010 Tacoma United States Tacoma Dome
13 December 2010 Anaheim Honda Center
14 December 2010
18 December 2010 Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes
19 December 2010
21 December 2010
Europe
21 March 2011 Lisbon Portugal Pavilhão Atlântico
22 March 2011
25 March 2011 Madrid Spain Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid
26 March 2011
29 March 2011 Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi
30 March 2011
1 April 2011 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum
2 April 2011
4 April 2011
5 April 2011
8 April 2011 Arnhem Netherlands GelreDome
9 April 2011
11 April 2011
13 April 2011 Zagreb Croatia Arena Zagreb
15 April 2011 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena
16 April 2011
18 April 2011 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena
19 April 2011
23 April 2011 Moscow Russia SK Olimpiyskiy
25 April 2011 Saint Petersburg SKK Peterburgskiy
27 April 2011 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Areena
28 April 2011
30 April 2011 Bærum Norway Telenor Arena
1 May 2011
4 May 2011 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe
5 May 2011
7 May 2011 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadion
11 May 2011 London England The O2 Arena
12 May 2011
14 May 2011
15 May 2011
17 May 2011
18 May 2011
20 May 2011 Manchester Manchester Evening News Arena
21 May 2011
23 May 2011 Dublin Republic of Ireland The O2
24 May 2011
27 May 2011 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
28 May 2011
30 May 2011 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
31 May 2011
3 June 2011 Mannheim Germany SAP Arena
4 June 2011
6 June 2011 Zurich Switzerland Hallenstadion
7 June 2011
10 June 2011 Hamburg Germany O2 World Hamburg
11 June 2011
13 June 2011 Herning Denmark Jyske Bank Boxen
15 June 2011 Berlin Germany O2 World Berlin
16 June 2011
18 June 2011 Düsseldorf Esprit Arena
20 June 2011 Munich Olympiahalle
22 June 2011 Budapest Hungary Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
24 June 2011 Zurich Switzerland Hallenstadion
25 June 2011
27 June 2011 Birmingham England National Indoor Arena
28 June 2011 Manchester Manchester Evening News Arena
30 June 2011 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
1 July 2011
3 July 2011 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum
4 July 2011
8 July 2011 Athens Greece OAKA Olympiakó Kleistó Gymnastírio
9 July 2011
12 July 2011
Oceania
27 January 2012 Perth Australia Burswood Dome
28 January 2012
1 February 2012 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
2 February 2012
4 February 2012
7 February 2012 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
8 February 2012
10 February 2012
11 February 2012
14 February 2012 Sydney Allphones Arena
15 February 2012
18 February 2012 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena
20 February 2012
22 February 2012
23 February 2012
South America
2 March 2012 Santiago Chile Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos
3 March 2012
7 March 2012 Buenos Aires Argentina Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti
9 March 2012
10 March 2012
12 March 2012
14 March 2012
15 March 2012
17 March 2012
18 March 2012
20 March 2012
25 March 2012 Porto Alegre Brazil Estádio Beira-Rio
29 March 2012 Rio de Janeiro Estádio Olímpico João Havelange
1 April 2012 São Paulo Estádio do Morumbi
3 April 2012
North America (second leg)
27 April 2012 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol
28 April 2012
1 May 2012 Houston United States Toyota Center
3 May 2012 Austin Frank Erwin Center
5 May 2012 Tulsa BOK Center
7 May 2012 Denver Pepsi Center
11 May 2012 San Francisco AT&T Park
13 May 2012 San Diego Valley View Casino Center
15 May 2012 Phoenix US Airways Center
19 May 2012 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
22 May 2012 Portland Rose Garden
24 May 2012 Seattle KeyArena
26 May 2012 Vancouver Canada BC Place
28 May 2012 Edmonton Rexall Place
29 May 2012
31 May 2012 Winnipeg MTS Centre
1 June 2012
3 June 2012 Saint Paul United States Xcel Energy Center
5 June 2012 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
6 June 2012 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena
8 June 2012 Chicago Wrigley Field
10 June 2012 Louisville KFC Yum! Center
11 June 2012 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse
13 June 2012 Atlanta Philips Arena
15 June 2012 Sunrise BankAtlantic Center
16 June 2012 Orlando Amway Center
19 June 2012 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
21 June 2012 Buffalo First Niagara Center
23 June 2012 Toronto Canada Rogers Centre
25 June 2012 Ottawa Scotiabank Place
26 June 2012 Montreal Bell Centre
28 June 2012 Albany United States Times Union Center
29 June 2012 Hartford XL Center
1 July 2012 Boston Fenway Park
3 July 2012 Pittsburgh Consol Energy Center
6 July 2012 New York City Yankee Stadium
7 July 2012
9 July 2012 Raleigh PNC Arena
10 July 2012 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena
12 July 2012 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center
14 July 2012 Philadelphia Citizens Bank Park
21 July 2012 Quebec City Canada Plains of Abraham
Europe (second leg)
18 July 2013 Arnhem Netherlands GelreDome
20 July 2013 Werchter Belgium Festival Site
23 July 2013 Split Croatia Stadion Poljud
26 July 2013 Padua Italy Stadio Euganeo
28 July 2013 Rome Stadio Olimpico
31 July 2013 Athens Greece OAKA Olympiakó Stádio Spiros Louis
4 August 2013 Istanbul Turkey İTÜ Stadium
7 August 2013 Prague Czech Republic Eden Arena
9 August 2013 Frankfurt Germany Commerzbank-Arena
11 August 2013 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadion
14 August 2013 Bærum Norway Telenor Arena
15 August 2013
17 August 2013 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi Stadion
20 August 2013 Warsaw Poland Stadion Narodowy im. Kazimierza Górskiego
23 August 2013 Vienna Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion
25 August 2013 Budapest Hungary Puskás Ferenc Stadion
28 August 2013 Bucharest Romania Piaţa Constituţiei
30 August 2013 Sofia Bulgaria Vassil Levski National Stadium
1 September 2013 Belgrade Serbia Ušće Park
4 September 2013 Berlin Germany Olympiastadion Berlin
6 September 2013 Düsseldorf Esprit Arena
8 September 2013 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam ArenA
11 September 2013 Zurich Switzerland Letzigrund
14 September 2013 London England Wembley Stadium
16 September 2013 Manchester Manchester Arena
18 September 2013 Dublin Ireland Aviva Stadium
21 September 2013 Paris France Stade de France

Box office score data [edit]

Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Air Canada Centre Toronto 40,922 / 40,922 (100%) $5,623,300
United Center Chicago 45,653 / 47,487 (96%) $5,400,900
CONSOL Energy Center Pittsburgh 12,561 / 12,561 (100%) $1,316,224
Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland 12,369 / 13,320 (93%) $1,229,950
TD Garden Boston 34,120 / 34,626 (99%) $3,836,070
Madison Square Garden New York City 36,704 / 36,704 (100%) $5,449,885
HSBC Arena Buffalo 13,718 / 13,718 (100%) $1,493,334
Verizon Center Washington, D.C. 12,865 / 12,865 (100%) $2,017,970
Nassau Coliseum Uniondale 21,147 / 21,147 (100%) $2,365,175
XL Center Hartford 11,647 / 11,647 (100%) $1,534,942
Scotiabank Place Ottawa 12,699 / 12,699 (100%) $1,346,000
Centre Bell Montreal 27,210 / 27,210 (100%) $3,482,540
Schottenstein Center Columbus 12,010 / 12,010 (100%) $1,325,804
Palace of Auburn Hills Auburn Hills 13,481 / 13,481 (100%) $1,536,384
Qwest Center Omaha 9,471 / 9,897 (96%) $898,513
Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul 14,130 / 14,130 (100%) $1,704,884
Scottrade Center St. Louis 12,574 / 12,574 (100%) $1,341,058
Sprint Center Kansas City 11,458 / 11,458 (100%) $1,253,051
Izod Center East Rutherford 25,690 / 25,690 (100%) $3,385,970
Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia 39,280 / 39,280 (100%) $5,474,340
Bank Atlantic Center Sunrise 24,939 / 24,939 (100%) $2,956,233
St Pete Times Forum Tampa 14,630 / 15,650 (93%) $1,784,297
Philips Arena Atlanta 12,665 / 12,665 (100%) $1,772,797
Toyota Center Houston 11,443 / 11,443 (100%) $1,541,128
American Airlines Center Dallas 12,804 / 12,804 (100%) $1,673,754
Pepsi Center Denver 11,801 / 11,801 (100%) $1,491,145
MGM Grand Garden Paradise 12,661 / 12,661 (100%) $1,992,350
US Airways Center Phoenix 12,234 / 12,234 (100%) $1,428,183
STAPLES Center Los Angeles 36,621 / 36,621 (100%) $5,408,750
Oracle Arena Oakland 12,579 / 12,579 (100%) $1,536,895
HP Pavilion San Jose 23,209 / 23,209 (100%) $3,106,707
Rogers Arena Vancouver 13,159 / 13,159 (100%) $1,940,070
Tacoma Dome Tacoma 19,785 / 19,785 (100%) $2,194,338
Honda Center Anaheim 23,854 / 23,854 (100%) $3,321,700
Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City 42,864 / 42,864 (100%) $4,788,270
Atlantic Pavilion Lisbon 31,170 / 31,170 (100%) $2,593,376[30]
Palacio de los Deportes Madrid 29,338 / 29,338 (100%) $2,135,012[30]
Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona 28,738 / 28,738(100%) $2,079,519[30]
Mediolanum Forum Milan 38,513 / 38,513 (100%) $3,888,218[30]
Gelredome Arnhem 88,693 / 88,693 (100%) $8,632,039[30]
Arena Zagreb Zagreb 17,004 / 17,004 (100%) $1,122,965[30]
O2 Arena Prague 29,095 / 29,095 (100%) $3,495,960[30]
Atlas Arena Lodz 26,231 / 26,231 (100%) $2,248,310[30]
Olympiski Moscow 21,894 / 21,894 (100%) $1,904,778[30]
SKK Arena Saint Petersburg 15,998 / 15,998 (100%) $1,542,045[30]
Hartwall Areena Helsinki 20,583 / 20,583(100%) $2,291,537[30]
Telenor Arena Bærum 36,034 / 36,034 (100%) $5,597,370[30]
Ericsson Globe Stockholm 23,212 / 23,212 (100%) $3,127,365[30]
Parken Stadion Copenhagen 46,825 / 46,825 (100%) $5,151,114[30]
The O2 Arena London 89,182 / 90,006 (99%) $10,232,800[31]
Evening News Arena Manchester 25,006 / 25,239 (99%) $2,989,250[31]
The O2 Dublin 24,540 / 24,540 (100%) $2,370,038[30]
Sportspaleis Antwerp 24,977 / 24,977 (100%) $2,703,230[30]
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy Paris 28,000 / 28,000 (100%) $2,967,148[30]
SAP Arena Mannheim 16,444 / 16,444 (100%) $2,226,201[32]
Hallenstadion Zurich 39,811 / 39,811 (100%) $9,633,656[32]
O2 World Hamburg 19,839 / 19,839 (100%) $2,605,683[32]
Jyske Bank Boxen Herning 13,564 / 13,564 (100%) $1,595,402[32]
O2 World Berlin 21,961 / 21,961 (100%) $2,734,176[32]
Esprit Arena Düsseldorf 33,299 / 33,299 (100%) $3,784,690[32]
Olympiahalle Munich 9,888 / 9,888 (100%) $1,343,821[32]
Papp Laszlo Sportarena Budapest 13,445 / 13,445 (100%) $1,333,913[32]
National Indoor Arena Birmingham 9,326 / 9,326 (100%) $1,142,757[32]
Evening News Arena Manchester 11,811 / 11,811 (100%) $1,438,940[32]
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy Paris 28,764 / 28,764 (100%) $3,048,832[32]
Mediolanum Forum Milan 21,005 / 21,005 (100%) $1,335,100[33]
OAKA Olympic Indoor Hall Athens 35,005 / 35,005 (100%) $2,559,048[33]
Burswood Dome Perth 19,523 / 19,523 (100%) $3,637,000[34]
Entertainment Center Brisbane 25,359 / 25,359 (100%) $4,268,040[34]
Rod Laver Arena Melbourne 38,586 / 38,586 (100%) $6,900,750[34]
Allphones Arena Sydney 22,994 / 22,994 (100%) $4,314,050[34]
Vector Arena Auckland 39,096 / 39,096 (100%) $6,149,610[34]
Estadio Nacional Santiago 93,926 / 94,875 (99%) $9,297,778[35]
Estadio River Plate Buenos Aires 430,678 / 444,906 (97%) $37,970,877[35]
Estadio Beira-Rio Porto Alegre 42,436 / 46,671 (91%) $5,950,540[36]
Estadio Olimpico Joao Havelange Rio de Janeiro 43,046 / 53,219 (81%) $4,839,180[36]
Estadio do Morumbi São Paulo 99,869 / 107,621 (93%) $12,512,600[37]
Foro Sol Mexico City 82,811 / 82,811 (100%) $7,596,861[35]
Toyota Center Houston 11,264 / 11,264 (100%) $1,365,855[35]
Frank Erwin Center Austin 10,230 / 10,230 (100%) $1,188,971[38]
BOK Center Tulsa 10,651 / 10,651 (100%) $1,198,062[35]
Pepsi Center Denver 11,800 / 11,800 (100%) $1,443,249[35]
AT&T Park San Francisco 33,193 / 33,193 (100%) $4,151,511[35]
Valley View Casino Center San Diego 10,219 / 10,219 (100%) $1,323,031[35]
US Airways Center Phoenix 11,585 / 11,585 (100%) $1,255,271[35]
LA Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles 45,751 / 45,751 (100%) $3,544,731[35]
Rose Garden Portland 12,275 / 12,275 (100%) $1,316,751[38]
KeyArena Seattle 12,006 / 12,006 (100%) $1,481,010[35]
BC Place Vancouver 36,013 / 36,013 (100%) $3,820,182[35]
Rexall Place Edmonton 24,419 / 24,419 (100%) $3,085,732[35]
MTS Centre Winnipeg 20,754 / 20,754 (100%) $2,384,855[35]
Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul 12,889 / 12,889 (100%) $1,420,771[39]
Joe Louis Arena Detroit 11,406 / 11,406 (100%) $1,222,904[39]
Van Andel Arena Grand Rapids 9,388 / 9,388 (100%) $1,042,274[39]
Wrigley Field Chicago 36,881 / 36,881 (100%) $4,388,860[39]
KFC Yum! Center Louisville 12,547 / 14,666 (86%) $1,295,669[39]
Bankers Life Fieldhouse Indianapolis 11,248 / 11,248 (100%) $1,288,131[39]
Philips Arena Atlanta 10,707 / 10,707 (100%) $1,256,465[39]
Bank Atlantic Center Sunrise 12,299 / 12,299 (100%) $1,522,098[39]
Amway Center Orlando 11,878 / 11,878 (100%) $1,383,781[39]
Bridgestone Arena Nashville 12,748 / 12,748 (100%) $1,356,251[39]
First Niagara Center Buffalo 12,996 / 12,996 (100%) $1,327,184[39]
Rogers Centre Toronto 40,328 / 40,328 (100%) $3,876,736[39]
ScotiaBank Place Ottawa 11,604 / 11,604 (100%) $1,239,283[39]
Bell Centre Montreal 14,305 / 14,305 (100%) $1,740,898[39]
Times Union Center Albany 10,963 / 10,963 (100%) $1,155,427[39]
XL Center Hartford 11,225 / 11,225 (100%) $1,421,495[39]
Fenway Park Boston 27,847 / 27,847 (100%) $3,620,675[39]
CONSOL Energy Center Pittsburgh 12,488 / 12,488 (100%) $1,269,078[39]
Yankee Stadium New York 62,188 / 62,188 (100%) $7,375,030[39]
PNC Arena Raleigh 11,913 / 11,913 (100%) $1,259,326[39]
Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte 12,540 / 12,540 (100%) $1,256,734[39]
Verizon Center Washington D.C 12,901 / 12,901 (100%) $1,683,729[39]
Citizens Bank Park Philadelphia 36,773 / 36,773 (100%) $4,270,942[39]
Plains of Abraham Quebec City 71,021 / 75,000 (95%) $7,391,936[39]
TOTAL 3,299,740 / 3,352,947 (98%) $377,368,148

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