On Stage Together Tour Explained

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Artist:Sting and Paul Simon
Number Of Legs:3
Number Of Shows:52

The On Stage Together Tour was a concert tour by English musician Sting and American musician Paul Simon. The tour began on 8 February 2014 in Houston, Texas and traveled across North America, Oceania, and Europe before concluding on 18 April 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Background

Sting and Paul Simon became friends in the late 1980s when they both lived in the same apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.[1] [2] In May 2013, they performed together for the first time at the annual Robin Hood Foundation benefit. "We were booked separately and then we said, 'Let's do it together.' So we did 'The Boxer' and 'Fields of Gold,' and there was an audible gasp in the room when we walked on together, and when we started singing we obeyed the basic rules of harmony, and it was great," said Sting in an interview with Billboard magazine.[3] An idea for a joint concert tour originated after that performance. "After we finished it, we both looked at each other and said: 'Wow. That's pretty interesting,'" recalled Simon.[1]

Separately from the ongoing Australian leg of the tour, Sting performed with Australian singer, musician and his long-time backing vocalist Jo Lawry on 5 February 2015 at the Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, singing as a duet the song "Impossible" from Lawry's new album Taking Pictures.[4]

Set list

This set list is representative of the show on 8 February 2014. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.[5]

  1. "Brand New Day"
  2. "The Boy in the Bubble"
  3. "Fields of Gold"
  4. "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
  5. "Englishman in New York"
  6. "I Hung My Head"
  7. "Driven to Tears"
  8. "Love Is the Seventh Wave"
  9. "Mother and Child Reunion"
  10. "Crazy Love"
  11. "Dazzling Blue"
  12. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
  13. "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"
  14. "That Was Your Mother"
  15. "Fragile"
  16. "America"
  17. "Message in a Bottle"
  18. "The Hounds of Winter"
  19. "They Dance Alone"
  20. "Roxanne"
  21. "Desert Rose"
  22. "The Boxer"
  23. "The Obvious Child"
  24. "Hearts and Bones" / "Mystery Train" / "Wheels"
  25. "Kodachrome" / "Gone At Last"
  26. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
  27. "You Can Call Me Al"
  28. "Every Breath You Take"
  29. "Late in the Evening"
  30. "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
North America[6]
8 February 2014HoustonUnited StatesToyota Center10,107 / 10,107$1,220,770
9 February 2014DallasAmerican Airlines Center9,007 / 10,226$1,578,075
11 February 2014DenverPepsi Center9,218 / 10,190$1,080,870
15 February 2014InglewoodThe Forum12,898 / 12,898$1,911,340
16 February 2014AnaheimHonda Center7,191 / 7,191$878,645
17 February 2014San JoseSAP Center11,759 / 11,759$1,422,435
19 February 2014KeyArena9,334 / 10,523$1,553,815
20 February 2014VancouverCanadaRogers Arena11,785 / 11,785$1,420,137
23 February 2014Saint PaulUnited StatesXcel Energy Center7,342 / 10,544$1,204,085
25 February 2014ChicagoUnited Center11,036 / 11,036$1,558,245
26 February 2014Auburn HillsThe Palace of Auburn Hills6,435 / 10,507$1,638,114
28 February 2014MontrealCanadaBell Centre10,243 / 10,243$1,168,771
1 March 2014TorontoAir Canada Centre15,141 / 15,141$1,792,850
3 March 2014BostonUnited StatesTD Garden12,066 / 12,066$1,458,125
4 March 2014New York CityMadison Square Garden27,410 / 27,410$4,562,505
6 March 2014
7 March 2014PhiladelphiaWells Fargo Center11,481 / 11,481$1,364,370
9 March 2014HersheyGiant Center8,310 / 10,100$1,102,938
13 March 2014Washington, D.C.Verizon Center13,107 / 13,107$1,755,885
15 March 2014SunriseBB&T Center10,372 / 10,372$1,349,485
16 March 2014OrlandoAmway Center10,498 / 10,498$1,175,900
Oceania[7] [8] [9]
30 January 2015AucklandNew ZealandVector Arena
31 January 2015New PlymouthTSB Bowl of Brooklands
3 February 2015BrisbaneAustraliaBrisbane Entertainment Centre5,371 / 5,371$726,493
7 February 2015GeelongMount Duneed Estate14,603 / 18,000$2,245,270
8 February 2015AdelaideCoopers Brewery
10 February 2015MelbourneRod Laver Arena8,294 / 8,294$988,851
13 February 2015SydneyQantas Credit Union Arena7,114 / 7,114$1,035,330
14 February 2015Hunter ValleyHope Estate Winery
21 February 2015PerthSir James Mitchell Park21,390 / 25,000$3,273,090
22 February 2015
Europe[10] [11]
16 March 2015BerlinGermanyO2 World12,541 / 12,887$1,449,610
17 March 2015OdenseDenmarkSparekassen Fyn Arena
19 March 2015OsloNorwayOslo Spektrum
20 March 2015StockholmSwedenEricsson Globe
22 March 2015AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo Dome
23 March 2015AntwerpBelgiumSportpaleis12,290 / 17,859$2,066,930
25 March 2015CologneGermanyLanxess Arena
27 March 2015ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion9,127 / 10,500$1,530,810
28 March 2015MunichGermanyOlympiahalle
30 March 2015MilanItalyMediolanum Forum
1 April 2015ViennaAustriaWiener Stadthalle
3 April 2015ParisFranceZénith de Paris
4 April 2015
7 April 2015DublinIreland3Arena
9 April 2015BelfastNorthern IrelandOdyssey Arena
10 April 2015GlasgowScotlandSSE Hydro7,887 / 7,887$897,287
12 April 2015BirminghamEnglandLG Arena
13 April 2015ManchesterManchester Arena8,691 / 8,691$1,014,580
15 April 2015LondonThe O2 Arena23,401 / 25,684$3,303,830
16 April 2015
18 April 2015AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo Dome
Total311,569 / 333,584$49,729,441

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sting and Paul Simon Will Tour Together . . Dave . Itzkoff . 4 November 2013 . 24 November 2014.
  2. How Paul Simon and Sting Became Rock's New Superduo . . David . Browne . 5 February 2014 . 24 November 2014.
  3. Paul Simon and Sting Q&A: Tour Mates on Shared Music DNA and Future 'Writing' . . Gary . Graff . 10 February 2014 . 24 November 2014.
  4. Web site: Sting and Jo Lawry sing "Impossible" at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, 5th February 2015 . 6 February 2015 . . 11 February 2015.
  5. Paul Simon and Sting Merge Voices, Styles in Tour Opener: Live Review . Graff . Gary . . 9 February 2014 . 14 March 2015.
  6. Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores. April 9, 2014. Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. https://web.archive.org/web/20130123044905/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/currentboxscore.jsp. January 23, 2013 . live . April 9, 2014.
  7. Web site: Sting & Paul Simon: On Stage Together - Second & Final Perth Show Added! . Sting.com . 10 July 2014 . 24 November 2014.
  8. Web site: Sting & Paul Simon: On Stage Together – Final New Zealand Show Confirmed! . Sting.com . 25 August 2014 . 24 November 2014.
  9. Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores . June 3, 2015 . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150611185330/http://www.billboard.com/biz/current-boxscore . live . June 11, 2015.
  10. Web site: BELFAST DATE ADDED FOR 'PAUL SIMON & STING: ON STAGE TOGETHER' 2015 EUROPEAN TOUR . PaulSimon.com . 13 November 2014 . 24 November 2014.
  11. Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores . June 10, 2015 . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150611185330/http://www.billboard.com/biz/current-boxscore . June 11, 2015 . June 3, 2015 . live .