| Concert Tour Name: | Scandinavia 1968 |
| Artist: | Led Zeppelin |
| Start Date: | 7 September 1968 |
| End Date: | 17 September 1968 |
| Number Of Legs: | 1 |
| Number Of Shows: | 9 (10 scheduled) |
| This Tour: | Scandinavia 1968 |
| Next Tour: | United Kingdom 1968 |
The English rock band Led Zeppelin staged a concert tour of Denmark and Sweden in September1968. The shows marked the band's first concert tour, though they were billed under the name "the Yardbirds".[1]
Led Zeppelin's debut tour was an outstanding contractual commitment left over from The Yardbirds. The band's first concert at Teen Club, a school gymnasium in Gladsaxe, Denmark, was performed exactly two months to the day after The Yardbirds' final concert.[2] The band's manager, Peter Grant, later said of this first concert: "Standing by the side of the stage, it was obvious that there was special chemistry."[3]
Guitarist Jimmy Page recalled that "the tour went fantastically for us, we left them stomping the floors after every show."[4] According to singer Robert Plant:
Plant also recalled the following:
For these early shows, the band was billed as the "Yardbirds" or "New Yardbirds", despite the fact that Jimmy Page was now the only surviving link with the previous band. Page later said:
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Opening Act(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1968 | Gladsaxe | Denmark | Gladsaxe Teen Club | Fourways, Bodies |
| Brøndby | Brøndby Pop-Club | The Day of Phønix, The Eyes | ||
| 8 September 1968 | Lolland | Reventlowparken | Beatnicks | |
| Roskilde | Fjordvilla | LadyBirds (es), Beauty Fools | ||
| Køge | Teaterbygningen | |||
| 12 September 1968 | Stockholm | Sweden | Gröna Lund | Hep Stars, Marmalade |
| 13 September 1968 | Inside | Bernt Staff, Bertil Bertilsson | ||
| 14 September 1968 | Knivsta | Ängby Park | Kenneth Staags with Hayati Kafé | |
| 15 September 1968 | Gothenburg | Liseberg | ||
The setlists of the earliest shows are sketchy, as no recordings of these shows exist.
A likely setlist for this tour consisted of: