The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 Explained

Concert Tour Name:North American Tour Spring 2011
Artist:The Cars
Album:Move Like This
Location:North America
Start Date:May 10, 2011
End Date:May 26, 2011
Number Of Shows:11

The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 is a set of eleven concerts in the United States and Canada featuring the newly reunited American band The Cars. Announced in April 2011 prior to the release of the band's album Move Like This, the concerts feature material from Move Like This and from the band's 1970s and 1980s albums.

Singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, guitarist Elliot Easton and drummer David Robinson performed as a quartet, as original Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000. Orr's bass parts were performed by Hawkes on keyboard and bass, while the vocals on songs originally sung by Orr ("Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and "Moving in Stereo") were performed by Ocasek. As Ocasek died on September 15, 2019, this is the final tour from the band.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
May 10, 2011SeattleUnited StatesShowbox SoDo
May 12, 2011Los AngelesHollywood Palladium
May 13, 2011OaklandFox Theater
May 15, 2011DenverFillmore
May 17, 2011MinneapolisFirst Avenue
May 18, 2011ChicagoRiviera Theatre
May 20, 2011TorontoCanadaSound Academy
May 22, 2011PhiladelphiaUnited StatesElectric Factory
May 23, 2011Washington, D.C.9:30 Club
May 25, 2011New York CityRoseland Ballroom
May 26, 2011BostonHouse of Blues

Reception

The performances and set lists were met with mixed reviews: The Hollywood Reporter reviewer Erik Pedersen found Move Like This to be a "surprisingly good" album but described the Hollywood Palladium show as "icy" and unenthusiastic. San Jose Mercury News reviewer Jim Harrington described the band's performance at Oakland's Fox Theater as "incredibly flat and dispassionate", but praised the band's "solid" musicianship.

Band members

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