Celebration Tour (No Angels) Explained

Concert Tour Name:Celebration Tour
Landscape:yes
Artist:No Angels
Location:Germany
Album:20
Number Of Shows:10 (3 cancelled)
Last Tour:An Intimate Evening with No Angels Tour
(2010)
This Tour:Celebration Tour
(2022)

The Celebration Tour is the fourth concert tour by German pop band No Angels. Launched in support of their sixth studio album, 20 (2021), it was originally announced as a special one-off event named Celebration Live to coincide with the twentieth release anniversary of their debut album Elle'ments (2001).[1] Following strong first day ticket sales, the open-air concert was incorporated in a full-length concert tour. The band's first tour in twelve years, it began on 18 June 2022 in Berlin at the Parkbühne Wuhlheide.[2] Following a longer break, it continued on 23 September and concluded on 8 October 2022.

Critical reception

Neue Westfälische editor Heimo Stefula praised the show, writing, "The quartet burned off a firework of hits in just under two hours, which was well received by the audience from the first second." Hessenschau critic Anne Heigel echoed his statements. She wrote: "In Frankfurt, there was deafening applause, beaming faces and pure nostalgia." Heigel noted that the band performed without "any complex stage sets" but instead offered "joint dance choreographies" and some "well-known classics."[3]

Christof Hammer from Stuttgarter Nachrichten was ambivalent about the "fairly conventionally staged program," some "unstable" vocal performances and the "rather dull" sound inside the Liederhalle, but concluded: "Much more [...] counts on this evening: The emotions between a band and its fans, the memories of the carefree youth of the 2000s and the warm feeling of still being there twenty years later and reuniting. Every song, every word from the stage becomes real soul food, the whole concert is almost a happening [...] Seen from this angle: An evening perfectly suited to times like these."

Release

With much of their opening concert at the Parkbühne Wuhlheide tracked by a film crew, on 27 January 2023, the band began releasing videos of their performances that night on their YouTube account.[4]

Set list

This set list is representative of the 18 June 2022 show in Berlin.[5]

  1. "Daylight in Your Eyes"
  2. "All Cried Out"
  3. "Down Boy"
  4. "Three Words"
  5. "Send Me Flowers"
  6. "Someday"
  7. "Goodbye to Yesterday"
  8. "A New Day"
  9. "A Reason"
  10. "Washes Over Me"
  11. "Too Old"
  12. "When the Angels Sing"
  13. "Still in Love with You"
  14. "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)"
  15. "Mad Wild"
  16. "Maybe"
  17. "Back Off"
  18. "Feelgood Lies"
  19. "One Life"
  20. "Let's Go to Bed"
  21. "Disappear"
  22. "Something About Us"
  23. "There Must Be an Angel"

Encore

  1. "We Keep the Spirit Alive"
  2. "That's the Reason"
  3. "Rivers of Joy"

Notes

Tour dates

Date! scope="col" style="width:11em;"
CityCountryVenueAttendance
18 June 2022BerlinGermanyParkbühne Wuhlheide12,500[6]
23 September 2022StuttgartLiederhalle Beethovensaal1,600[7]
24 September 2022HannoverSwiss Life Hall1,800[8]
25 September 2022HamburgBarclays Arena2,500[9]
27 September 2022LeipzigHaus Auensee
30 September 2022NürnbergMeistersingerhalle1,400[10]
2 October 2022MunichDampfdom1,200[11]
5 October 2022Frankfurt am MainBatschkapp
6 October 2022BielefeldStadthalle900[12]
8 October 2022ColognePalladium 4,000[13]

Cancelled shows

On 5 September 2022, the band announced on Instagram that the planned concerts in Erfurt, Rostock and Zürich would be cancelled, citing increasing productions costs as a reason.[14]

Date! scope="col" style="width:11em;"
CityCountryVenue
29 September 2022RostockGermanyStadthalle
1 October 2022ErfurtMessehalle
4 October 2022ZürichSwitzerlandHalle 622

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Celebration Live – Eine Sommernacht in Berlin. de. 19 June 2022. trinitymusic.de.
  2. noangelsofficial. CfAB-_3sBkR/?hl. ❤ D A N K E ❤. 19 June 2022.
  3. Web site: Anne. Heigel . No Angels in Frankfurt: So viel Liebe für die Engel. de. 11 October 2022. 6 October 2022. Hessenschau.
  4. Web site: No Angels - Down Boy (Celebration Tour) (Live aus der Wuhlheide Berlin - 18.06.2022). YouTube (No Angels). 7 March 2023.
  5. Web site: No Angels Wuhlheide. YouTube (MissKirscheDeluxe). 19 June 2022.
  6. Web site: DE: No Angels and Undercover nominated for Preis für Popkultur. en. 18 August 2024. 28 July 2023. BMG Rights Management.
  7. Web site: Christof . Hammer. No Angels in der Stuttgarter Liederhalle: Erinnerungen an unbeschwerte Jugendtage. de. 6 October 2022. 24 September 2022. Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
  8. Web site: Konzert: Niemand träumt alleine – die No Angels in der Swiss-Life-Hall. de. 6 October 2022. 25 September 2022. neuepresse.de.
  9. Web site: No Angels machen bei Jubiläumstour Station in Hamburg. de. 6 October 2022. 26 September 2022. ndr.de.
  10. Web site: Björn. Bischoff. Können sie mehr als Nostalgie? So war das Konzert der No Angels in der Meistersingerhalle. de. 6 October 2022. 1 October 2022. Nürnberger Nachrichten.
  11. Web site: Dietmar. Schwenger. No Angels weihten Münchner Dampfdom ein. de. 6 October 2022. 4 October 2022. MusikWoche.
  12. Web site: Heimo. Stefula. Enttäuschung und Begeisterung beim Bielefeld-Konzert der "No Angels" . de. 10 October 2022. 8 October 2022. Neue Westfälische.
  13. Web site: LIVE REVIEW: NO ANGELS @ KÖLN (PALLADIUM) . de. 18 August 2024. 18 October 2022. THE-PICK.
  14. noangelsofficial. CiIE5B-vrck. Schweren, schweren Herzens mussten Entscheidung bzgl der Tour getroffen werden [...] . 5 September 2022.