Category: Concerts

Police drummer rips band’s “lame” concert
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The singer in the Police jumps like a “petulant pansy,” the drummer is making a “complete hash,” and who knows what the guitarist is doing?
Notes from a bitter critic? Actually, it’s a disarmingly frank concert review from the aforementioned drummer of the newly reunited rock trio.
A philosophical Stewart Copeland unleashed his vitriol in a posting on his Web site on Thursday, a day after the band played its second show in Vancouver, the Canadian city where it began its first world tour in more than 20 years on Monday.
“This is unbelievably lame,” Copeland wrote of Wednesday’s show at the GM Place arena. “We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea.”
Most of the 20,000 fans at the venue might not have noticed a series of small flubs, but Copeland, singer/bassist Sting, and guitarist were painfully aware of them.
Copeland started the show off on the wrong foot, literally. He tripped as he took to the stage, and then banged his gong at the wrong time so that “the big pompous opening to the show is a damp squib.”
He did not hear Summers’ opening riff to “Message In a Bottle,” and Sting in turn misheard Copeland’s drum intro — “so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho.”
They quickly recovered, but then Sting got his footwork wrong as he leapt into the air to signal the end to a shambolic version of their rat-race rant “Synchronicity II.”
“The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock,” Copeland reported.
“And so it goes, for song after song,” he wrote, with tunes such as “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic” and “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” reduced to ruin.
“It usually takes about four or five shows in a tour before you get to the disaster gig. But we’re The Police so we are a little ahead of schedule,” he said.
Fortunately, no fists flew backstage as they did back in the Police’s heyday. The threesome fell into each other’s arms laughing hysterically, Copeland said.
“Screw it, it’s only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it’s time to get out of Vancouver.”
The band’s next show is set for Saturday in Edmonton.

GM Place, Vancouver – May 28, 2007 – Police kick off reunion tour
VANCOUVER – And they said it wouldn’t happen.
The reunion tour that no one ever thought was going to materialize finally did on Monday night as ’80s New Wave kingpins The Police opened their 30th anniversary trek with a sold-out show at GM Place in front of some 20,000 ecstatic fans.
Singer-bassist Sting, 55, the lone holdout all these years – 23 to be exact since The Police last toured for their last studio album, Synchronicity – seemed genuinely happy to be on stage again with his former bandmates – drummer Stewart Copeland, 54, and guitarist Andy Summers, 64 – who have patiently been waiting for him to return to the fold while he enjoyed a hugely successful solo career.
For God’s sake, the trio of two Brits and one American even hugged each other in front of the cheering crowd after performing a two-hour, hit-heavy set from their seven year career (1977-1984) that saw them sell a staggering 50 million albums while infighting broke out towards the end.
“Tonight is our first official concert in 25 years, we chose Vancouver, ’cause you’re Vancouver, alright?” said Sting, who had been rehearsing with Copeland and Summers most recently in a log house on the Squamish Indian reserve in North Vancouver. “I like this city very much.”
Still, anyone expecting the fierce punk-tinged reggae rock of The Police at their prime when they split up in 1984, instead got a jazzier, more mellow version of the acclaimed trio of accomplished musicians.
Many songs got some serious retooling and not always for the better: Don’t Stand So Close To Me, Truth Hits Everybody, and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic were among the disappointments.
Still, The Police’s show, a comparatively stripped down affair compared to the huge productions put on by the likes of The Rolling Stones and U2, opened strongly with Message In A Bottle, Synchronicity II, Spirits In The Material World and the combo of Voices In My Head/When The World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around.
But there was a serious lull in the middle portion of the show with plenty of slow songs or ballads – Driven To Tears, Walking On The Moon, Wrapped Around Your Finger, The Bed’s Too Big Without You, and Murder By Numbers.
At a press conference earlier this year to announce their reunion tour, Sting insisted it would be just “three guys on stage, that’s all. Simple but spectacular.”
Well, he was mostly right.
Their in-the-round stage saw the trio playing in a pit with steps up to a semi-circular catwalk behind them so they could play to audience members behind them whenever the mood struck.
There was also small steps up to ramps on either side of the stage which Sting used to the delight of the crowd.
It has to be said that Sting looked and sounded outstanding with his brilliant blue eyes offset by a nice tan, chiselled arms and a tight-fitting sleeveless white shirt and narrow black pants along with black combat boots.
Whenever he performed a scissor-kick at the end of song or stood on Copeland’s drum riser and wiggled his bum, the reaction from fans was palatable.
But other than genuinely slick lighting and a video screen, onto which footage of a moving dinosaur skeleton was projected during Walking In Your Footsteps, it was a surprisingly simple affair.
Musically, the most interesting choices came from Copeland, who looked like a mad scientist behind his enormous drum kit with white gloves, glasses and a head band.
He often alternated with a second set of percussion instruments that were placed on a riser above his drum kit, including a gong that he struck to kick off the entire evening.
By the final third of the show, such highlights as Invisible Sun, during which warn-torn video of Iraq was shown, I Can’t Stand Losing You, Roxanne, King Of Pain, So Lonely, Every Breath You Take and Next To You, saw that old Police magic return.
Opening Monday night was Fiction Plane, a rock trio fronted by Sting’s 31-year-old son Joe Sumner, whose upper register sounds uncannily like that of his father’s. (Also seen in the audience was Sting’s second wife, Trudie Styler and L.A Law alum Corbin Bernsen.)
Fiction Plane’s 45-minute set was perfectly serviceable but hardly exceptional and given the circumstances, they can hardly be blamed for being a little overwhelmed.
With the passage of time, they are sure to become more relaxed, and hopefully, the headliners will pick up a little more steam in that troublesome middle section or just change the songs outright.
The Police return to the same Vancouver venue for a second show Wednesday night before heading to Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday where some tickets are available – a rarity on the otherwise mostly sold out tour. The trio don’t arrive in Toronto until July 22-23 for shows at the Air Canada Centre followed by Montreal’s Bell Centre on July 25-26 before a return to the ACC on Nov. 8.
SET LIST
What The Police played on Monday night at their world tour launch in Vancouver:
Message in a Bottle
Synchronicity II
Spirits in the Material World
Voices Inside My Head/When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
Don’t Stand So Close to Me
Driven to Tears
Walking on the Moon
Truth Hits Everybody
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The Bed’s Too Big Without You
Murder by Numbers
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Walking in Your Footsteps
Can’t Stand Losing You
Roxanne
ENCORE:
King of Pain
So Lonely
Every Breath You Take
SECOND ENCORE
Next to You

The Police Return To The Stage With Vancouver Warm-Up
The Police played their first concert in more than 20 years last night (May 27) in front of a fan club-only audience at Vancouver’s GM Place, rocking through a 21-song, 125-minute set that went heavy on hits from the band’s early 1980s heyday. The show opened with “Message in a Bottle” and closed with the spirited early hit “Next to You.”
The group officially begins its mammoth reunion tour tonight at the same arena, with support from Fiction Plane. The trek is expected to last through the end of the year and will likely finish as the top ticket seller of 2007, according to estimates by Billboard.
Among the oddities that appeared in the warm-up show set list were “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” which was rarely played live during the band’s first incarnation, and a medley of “Voices Inside My Head” and “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around,” which was first tested out during a February press conference in Los Angeles.
Here is the Police’s May 27, 2007, set list:
“Message in a Bottle”
“Synchronicity II”
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
“Voices Inside My Head”/”When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”
“Spirits in the Material World”
“Driven to Tears”
“Walking on the Moon”
“Truth Hits Everybody”
“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
“Wrapped Around Your Finger”
“The Bed’s Too Big Without You”
“Murder by Numbers”
“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”
“Invisible Sun”
“Walking in Your Footsteps”
“Can’t Stand Losing You”
“Roxanne”
“King of Pain”
“So Lonely”
“Every Breath You Take”
“Next to You”

Fall Out Boy on high
“Wait, (wasn’t) it going to be that Sanjaya guy?” Patrick Stump says, prematurely reacting to last night’s American Idol finale. “He was doing great wasn’t he?
“To be honest,” he goes on, laughing, “my only interest in that show was seeing if he’d win. So when he was voted off, I stopped watching.”
It’s a Friday morning, and as he steps onto the balcony of his Los Angeles condo, besides forecasting Idol’s end, Fall Out Boy’s lead vocalist is wondering if it’s too early to go shopping for CD’s.
“As we speak, I’m looking at the Virgin Megastore, just kind of contemplating,” he says. “Should I go over there? Do you think they’re open yet,” he asks, gazing towards Sunset Blvd.
“I don’t think they are,” he continues, moving back inside, “but I might walk over there anyway. Everything you want to waste your money on, they have in triplicate. I’m so stoked about it. I could go on forever.”
Days away from starting an amphitheatre trek in support of their platinum-selling sophomore disc, “Infinity on High,” Stump, 23, pondered the Illinois-foursome’s uncanny rise from suburban outcasts to mainstream hitmakers.
Scoring one of the decade’s biggest rock singles, “Dance, Dance,” the band’s major-label debut, “From Under the Cork Tree,” moved close to three million copies following its release in 2005.
Bass player, Pete Wentz’s lyrics a kaleidoscopic romp through teenage angst, Fall Out Boy found itself shoved from Warped Tour oddities, to trading licks with Jay-Z (on “Thriller”) and adding hooks to Timbaland’s “One & Only.”
“It was right before Christmas when we got the call from Timbaland, and I flew out to Norfolk, Va., with Andy and we were there, we were doing it and everything was awesome,” he says, speaking at a rapid pace. “But on the way out, every flight got cancelled and it was almost like ‘Home Alone,’ where we didn’t make it back. I called my mom and said, ‘Mom, I might miss Christmas this year. I’m here with Timbaland.'”
Kanye West also got in on the act, producing a remix of “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race,” and when the boys asked Babyface to help produce “Infinity on High,” he graciously obliged.
“We bluffed really,” Stump says. “We were talking to MTV or someone and we just said that Babyface was going to produce some of the songs. Then, when they were fact-checking it, they called him up and he was like, ‘Who Out Boy?’ But he decided to do it.”
Friends since meeting inside the clubs flogging Chicago’s hardcore scene, Stump says the band’s members gravitated towards one another because of a shared desire to do something different.
After splintering off from the metalcore outfit, Arma Angelus, ex-members Wentz, Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman hooked up with Stump, and the musical bond between vocalist and lyricist was instant. “He writes words and I write background music. We’re constantly writing. In fact, we’ve written three songs since starting this interview.
“He gives me his words and I just start writing melodies around those lyrics,” adds Stump. “The first verse of ‘You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave,’ the one about the DA dressed to the nines, I love that. I thought that was such a cool image when I first read that.”
Now headliners on the seventh-annual edition of the Honda Civic tour, Stump says that playing in front of 16,000 fans (as they are expected to do this weekend in Toronto) hasn’t really fazed them. “We’re really just stoked on playing anywhere.
“Our first show was our first big break. It was at DePaul University (in Chicago) in a mess hall in front of a bunch of really mathy, experimental hardcore bands.
“No one liked us, but we were really hyped about it anyways.”
In retrospect, though, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that record labels were vying for the rights to the band’s airtight teen melodramas.
At the merchandise table hawkers sell everything from T-shirts to action figures. “You can’t really call them action figures,” Stump says, with total seriousness. “Because there isn’t really that much action. My guy just stands there.
“However, the real me doesn’t get that much action in the first place, and the legs don’t move and you can’t take the hat off. So, maybe they are just like real life.”
Almost as intriguing as the collectibles, however, is Stump’s unabashed adoration of singer-songwriter Prince. “I’ve heard a surprising amount of Prince,” he allows.
“I was in Missoula, Mont., walking through a used record store and they had two cassette tapes. Count them, two cassettes in the entire place. One was Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ and the other was the Time’s ‘Pandemonium.’
“‘Pandemonium’ just looked ridiculous and I’d always wanted a copy of ‘The Chronic,’ so I bought both thinking I was mostly going to listen to ‘The Chronic.’ I don’t think I’ve ever listened to that copy of ‘The Chronic,’ though. I exclusively listened to the Time and I got obsessed with that record. Then, I went through all the bands that Prince made and all the bands he put together, working my way back to him.”
But with virtually all aspects of the band’s personal life made public (anyone recall seeing shots of Wentz’s penis on the Internet?), isn’t Stump worried that Fall Out Boy are getting too big to stay true to their humble beginnings?
“Chris Rock has a good quote that being famous is a lot like having a girlfriend with a really nice rack,” he chuckles. “A lot of people will be really nice to you and give you a lot of attention, but nine times out of ten, they’re just looking at your rack.”
Here are the remaining dates on the Honda Civic Tour:
May 2007
25 – Montreal, Quebec – The Bell Centre
26 – Toronto, Ontario – Molson Amphitheater
27 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theater
28 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center
30 – Saratoga, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
31 – Mansfield, MA – Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
June 2007
1 – Camden, NJ – Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
2 – Hartford, CT – New England Dodge Music Center
4 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5 – Wantaugh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre
6 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
8 – Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
10-11 – Chicago, IL – Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island
13 – Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
14 – Atlanta, GA – HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
15 – Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheater
16 – West Palm Beach, FL – Sound Advice Amphitheater
18 – The Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
19 – Dallas, TX – Smirnoff Music Centre
20 – Selma, TX – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
22 – Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Pavilion
23 – Inglewood, CA – The Forum
24 – Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl
25 – West Valley City, UT – The E Center
27 – Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome
28 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Pacific Coast Coliseum
29 – Portland, OR – The Rose Garden Arena
30 – Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion
July 2007
1 – Chula Vista, CA – Coors Amphitheater
2 – Anaheim, CA – The Honda Center

Osmonds reuniting for 50th celebration
LAS VEGAS (AP) ó The Osmonds will reunite this summer for a TV special celebrating a half-century in the entertainment business.
Seven Osmond siblings ó Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie and Jimmy ó are scheduled to be onstage Aug. 13-14 at The Orleans Hotel Showroom, publicist Kevin Sasaki said Thursday from Los Angeles.
Tickets for the live shows range from $75 to $125.
The shows will be taped for “The Osmonds 50th Anniversary,” which will air next March on PBS stations.
“At first it was just a tribute to my brothers, but it came together as a celebration of everybody. It’s out of control,” Jimmy Osmond, producer of the special, said Thursday.
“We started so young, you would think 50 years means we’re a bunch of old guys. We aren’t a bunch of old guys,” he said, noting that family members perform frequently before audiences young and old.

Crowded House Taps Yorn For Summer Tour
As expected, Crowded House will tour North America for the first time in more than 10 years, beginning Aug. 4 at Calvin Theatre in Northampton, Mass. The recently reunited Aussie rock troupe has tapped Pete Yorn and 16 Frames as openers for the 27-date trek.
The tour runs through mid-September and includes a previously announced appearance at Bumbershoot on Sept. 1 in Seattle. Crowded House will also perform with Fountains Of Wayne on Aug. 22 in Denver.
The tour comes in support of the band’s forthcoming album “Time on Earth,” to be released July 10 via ATO. The group debuted its new lineup, with new drummer Matt Sherrod, last month during a pre-Coachella warm-up show in Pomona, Calif.
Here are Crowded House’s tour dates:
Aug. 4: Northampton, Mass. (Calvin Theater)
Aug. 5: Boston (Bank of American Pavilion)
Aug. 6: Philadelphia (Mann Center for Performing Arts)
Aug. 8-9: New York (Beacon Theatre)
Aug. 11: Montreal (St. Denis)
Aug. 13: Toronto (Massey Hall)
Aug. 14: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan Theatre)
Aug. 17: Milwaukee (Pabst Theatre)
Aug. 18: Chicago (House of Blues)
Aug. 20: Kansas City, Mo. (Uptown Theatre)
Aug. 22: Denver (Fillmore)
Aug. 24: San Diego (Humphrey’s)
Aug. 25: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl)
Aug. 26: Oakland, Calif. (Paramount Theatre of the Arts)
Aug. 28: Los Angeles (Greek Theater)
Aug. 29-30: Saratoga, Calif. (Mountain Winery)
Sept. 1: Seattle (Bumbershoot Festival)
Sept. 2: Portland, Ore. (Arlene Schnitzer HAll)
Sept. 3: Vancouver (Orpheum Theatre)
Sept. 5: Calgary, Alberta (Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium)
Sept. 6: Edmonton, Alberta (Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium)
Sept. 8: Winnipeg, Manitoba (Winnipeg Concert Hall)
Sept. 9: Minneapolis (Orpheum Theatre)
Sept. 11: Nashville (Ryman Auditorium)
Sept. 12: Atlanta (Tabernacle)

Pink Floyd Members Appear At Barrett Tribute
The surviving members of Pink Floyd took part in a tribute concert Thursday night (May 10) to pay respects to their former frontman, Roger “Syd” Barrett.
Guitarist David Gilmour, bassist Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright all appeared on stage at the “Syd Barrett — Madcap’s Last Laugh” gig, held at the London Barbican venue.
But it would appear the long-feuding Gilmour and Waters have yet to bury the hatchet. The pair appeared separately, the BBC reports, and were not photographed together.
Gilmour, Mason and Wright performed “Arnold Layne,” the group’s first hit and one of Barrett’s best-known works. Waters performed a solo version of his own track, “Flickering Flame.”
The concert was held to pay homage to Barrett, who died on July 7, 2006, at the age of 60, following complications from diabetes. The artist had spent the better part of the past 30 years living in seclusion in Cambridge, England, after being forced out of the band due to deteriorating mental health issues.
Other performers on the night included Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde and Soft Boys singer Robyn Hitchcock.
They then took part in an all-star finale of one of Barrett’s best-known compositions, the psychedelic track “Bike” taken from the band’s debut 1967 album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” Waters, however, did not join in.
The Barrett concert is part of the Barbican’s Only Connect series of events, which offers a podium for unusual collaborations and cross-arts experimentation. Contemporary composer Philip Glass and punk-era artist Patti Smith will take part in a performance of piano and poetry on Oct. 19, under the Only Connect banner.

Furtado joins lineup for tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales
Canadian superstar Nelly Furtado has joined the lineup for the memorial concert in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, in London this July 1.
Furtado will be spending Canada Day at the Concert for Diana being organized by Princes William and Harry to mark the 10th anniversary of their mother’s death.
The event is at Wembley Stadium on July 1, which would have been Diana’s 46th birthday. It has been described by William and Harry, who will appear on stage, as “the best birthday present she ever had.”
Organizers also on Wednesday added singer Tom Jones, rapper P Diddy and British Pop Idol winner Will Young to the lineup, which is believed to represent both Diana’s tastes and the preferences of her sons.
Furtado, who hosted Canada’s Juno Awards earlier this year, was at the top of the U.K. charts late last year with Maneater.
Elton John, Roger Hodgson, former singer for Supertramp, Rod Stewart and Duran Duran are among the selections from Diana’s era.
A performance is also being planned by the English National Ballet, and some of London’s theatre stars will perform a medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber music.
Also on the list are:
Take That.
James Morrison.
Lily Allen.
Kanye West.
Status Quo.
Pharrell Williams.
Joss Stone.
More than 32,000 tickets have already sold to the event, which will be televised worldwide.

White Stripes return to the road with an ‘Icky Thump’
The White Stripes are set to embark on a world tour this summer to support their upcoming album, “Icky Thump.”
Following a two-week stint in Europe beginning June 1, the garage-rock duo will kick off North American dates June 17 at Manchester, TN’s Bonnaroo Festival. The outing includes shows in all 10 Canadian provinces, as well as the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest territories.
“Having never done a full tour of Canada, [drummer] Meg [White] and I thought it was high time to go whole hog,” frontman Jack White said in a statement, adding that the July 14 concert in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, will fall on The White Stripes’ 10th anniversary.
Following the Canadian run, the Whites will return to the US for performances in 16 Eastern states that they have yet to visit in their career, plus a few other markets including New York City and Boston, according to the band’s website. Confirmed North American dates are listed below. More are expected soon. Euro gigs can be found at the duo’s website.
To help celebrate The White Stripes’ 10th year, the band has teamed with British music mag NME to distribute a limited-edition, red vinyl, seven-inch single of the track “Rag and Bone” from the “Icky Thump” album, which will be released June 19 in the US. The special NME issue, which hits the streets June 6, will mark the first time in more than a decade that a vinyl record has been given away with a magazine, according to The White Stripes’ website.
Less than a week later, the band will release the album’s first radio single, the title track, on white vinyl. In the meantime, the song “Icky Thump” is available exclusively online at iTunes starting today (4/26).
The new set is The White Stripes’ sixth studio effort following 2005’s “Get Behind Me Satan,” which scored a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.
June 2007
17 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Festival
24 – Burnaby, British Columbia – Deer Lake Park
25 – Whitehorse, Yukon – Yukon Arts Centre
26 – Yellowknife, Northwest Territories – Shorty Brown Multiplex Arena
27 – Iqaluit, Nunavut – Arctic Winter Games Arena
29 – Calgary, Alberta – Pengrowth Saddledome
30 – Edmonton, Alberta – Shaw Convention Center
July 2007
1 – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – TCU Place
2 – Winnipeg, Manitoba – MTS Centre
3 – Thunder Bay, Ontario – Community Auditorium
5 – Toronto, Ontario – Molson Amphitheatre
6 – Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
7 – London, Ontario – John Labatt Centre
8 – Ottawa, Ontario – LeBreton Flats Park (Ottawa Bluesfest)
10 – Moncton, New Brunswick – Moncton Coliseum Arena
11 – Charlottetown, Price Edward Island – Charlottetown Civic Centre
13 – Halifax, Nova Scotia – Cunard Centre
14 – Glace Bay, Nova Scotia – Savoy Theatre
16 – St. John’s, Newfoundland – Mile One Center
22 – Portland, ME – Cumberland Civic Center
23 – Boston, MA – Agganis Arena
24 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
25 – Wallingford, CT – Chevrolet Theater
27 – Wilmington, DE – Grand Opera House
28 – Fairfax, VA – Patriot Center
29 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
30 – Birmingham, AL – Sloss Furnace
31 – Southaven, MS – Snowden Grove Park Amphitheater

Kelly Clarkson Ready To Rock On Summer Trek
Kelly Clarkson will spend nearly three months on the road this summer and fall in support of her upcoming RCA album, “My December.” The tour begins July 11 in Portland, Ore., and will run through Sept. 28 in Las Vegas, with venues to be announced. Clarkson will also perform July 7 at the Live Earth benefit in East Rutherford, N.J.
“My December,” a release date for which has yet to be confirmed, is led by the single “Never Again,” which is just now settling in at U.S. radio outlets.
Before the tour, Clarkson will appear May 12 at Los Angeles radio station KISS FM’s Wango Tango show in Irvine, Calif., and will perform May 15 with Reba McEntire at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Here are Kelly Clarkson’s tour dates:
July 7: East Rutherford, N.J. (Giants Stadium / Live Earth)
July 11: Portland, Ore.
July 13: Seattle
July 15: Sacramento, Calif.
July 17: San Jose, Calif.
July 19: Anaheim, Calif.
July 21: Denver
July 22: Kansas City, Mo.
July 25: Minneapolis
July 27: St. Louis
July 29: Chicago
July 31: Detroit
Aug. 2: Toronto
Aug. 4: Boston
Aug. 5: Albany, N.Y.
Aug. 12: Uncasville, Conn.
Aug. 14: Cleveland
Aug. 16: Philadelphia
Aug. 18: Uniondale, N.Y.
Aug. 19: Washington D.C.
Aug. 22, 24: East Rutherford, N.J.
Aug. 26: Nashville
Aug. 28: Atlanta
Aug. 30: Ft Lauderdale, Fla.
Sept. 1: Orlando, Fla.
Sept. 2: Tampa, Fla.
Sept. 5: Dallas
Sept. 7: Houston
Sept. 9: Las Vegas
Sept. 13: Calgary, A.B.
Sept. 14: Edmonton, A.B.
Sept. 16: Vancouver
Sept. 19: Fresno, Calif.
Sept. 21: San Diego
Sept. 23: Phoenix
Sept. 26: Los Angeles
Sept. 28: Las Vegas