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Dark Horse Tour
Promotional world tour by Nickelback
Locations North America, United Kingdom, Australasia, Europe
Supporting album Dark Horse
Start date February 25, 2009 (2009-02-25)
End date June 3, 2010 (2010-06-03)
Legs 5
Shows 118 (3 cancelled)
Nickelback tour chronology
All The Right Reasons Tour
(2006–2007)		 Dark Horse Tour
(2009–2010)

The Dark Horse Tour is an ongoing worldwide concert tour by Canadian hard rock band Nickelback. It is their first world tour since the conclusion of their massive All The Right Reasons Tour, ending on September 2, 2007 in Kansas City, MO. The tour is in support of their new album Dark Horse. Dates were announced on November 26, 2008. Seether and Saving Abel are the opening acts on the tour. On the second half of the North American tour, Hinder, Papa Roach, and Saving Abel will be in support. Black Stone Cherry were the support act for the European tour of the UK in May 2009.

During the tour, Ryan Peake sang for a cover of "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon during an encore. During the UK leg of the tour, they sang a cover of Highway to Hell by AC/DC with Chris Robertson of Black Stone Cherry on vocals, just before the T-Shirt cannons. A similar format was applied during the rest of the tour, however they sang a cover of Hey Man, Nice Shot by Filter with Shaun Morgan of Seether on vocals. In some of the early shows, "This Afternoon" was played instead "If Today Was Your Last Day". The rock band Sick Puppies will support Nickelback in Australia. On the 2010 European leg of the tour, it has been confirmed that Daughtry will support Nickelback on all of the Europe dates. They have also announced more dates for the spring of 2010 that takes place in select venues in Canada and the United States. Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, and Sick Puppies have been confirmed to be the opening acts.[1]

According to the Billboard Magazine, Nickelback played in front of 1,046,973 people on the 2009 section of the tour. In the same section, Nickelback grossed $49,908,542 from the tour.[2]

Contents

Tour dates

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Pre-Tour European 'Warm-up' Shows

[4]

North American Leg

Support Act officially confirmed as Seether and Saving Abel.

[3]

U.K. Leg

North American Leg 2

Support Act officially confirmed as Hinder, Papa Roach, and Saving Abel.

Australia & NZ Leg

Support Act officially confirmed as Sick Puppies.

European Leg

Support Act officially confirmed as Daughtry.

North American Leg 3

Support Acts officially confirmed as Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, and Sick Puppies.

Set list

  1. "Something in Your Mouth"
  2. "Because of You"
  3. "Photograph"
  4. "Figured You Out"
  5. "Savin' Me"
  6. "Far Away"
  8. "Gotta Be Somebody"
  9. "If Everyone Cared"
  11. "Rockstar"
  12. "Sad but True"/"S.E.X." medley
  13. "Burn It to the Ground"
  14. Drum solo/"Fight for All the Wrong Reasons" jam
  15. "How You Remind Me"
  16. "Too Bad"

Encore:

  2. "Someday"
  3. "Animals"

Personnel

Box office score data

Venue City No. of shows / No. of sellouts Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Sommet Center Nashville 1 / 1 13,754 / 13,754 (100%) $783,757
Rupp Arena Lexington 1 / 1 17,227 / 17,227 (100%) $957,951
Joe Louis Center Detroit 1 / 1 17,030 / 17,030 (100%) $948,719
Air Canada Centre Toronto 1 / 1 14,261 / 14,261 (100%) $890,403
Copps Coliseum Hamilton 1 / 1 11,554 / 11,554 (100%) $680,003
DCU Center Worcester 1 / 1 12,116 / 12,116 (100%) $740,210
Izod Center East Rutheford 1 / 1 16,035 / 16,035 (100%) $894,713
Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville 1 / 1 7,701 / 7,701 (100%) $466,800
Wachovia Center Philadelphia 1 / 1 13,201 / 13,201 (100%) $858,993
Nationwide Arena Columbus 1 / 1 14,075 / 14,075 (100%) $774,398
Allstate Arena Rosemont 1 / 1 14,141 / 14,141 (100%) $879,944
Bradley Center Milwaukee 1 / 1 15,129 / 15,129 (100%) $809,323
i Wireless Center Moline 1 / 1 10,877 / 10,877 (100%) $618,238
Qwest Center Omaha 1 / 1 15,369 / 15,369 (100%) $843,612
Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines 1 / 1 12,046 / 12,046 (100%) $617,306
Target Center Minneapolis 1 / 1 14,075 / 14,075 (100%) $824,875
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center Darien 1 / 1 21,752 / 21,752 (100%) $824,002
Susquehanna Bank Center Camdem 1 / 0 14,437 / 25,317 (59%) $518,575
Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain Scranton 1 / 1 16,958 / 16,958 (100%) $549,210
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Wantagh 1 / 0 13,424 / 13,810 (97%) $608,027
Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake Burgettstown 1 / 0 21,079 / 23,145 (93%) $742,158
Hershey Park Stadium Hershey 1 / 1 19,460 / 19,460 (100%) $1,050,558
PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel 1 / 0 16,208 / 16,914 (96%) $609,897
Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs 1 / 0 18,632 / 25,228 (75%) $676,732
TOTAL 24 / 19 360,541 / 381,175 (93%) $18,168,404

References

  1. ^ http://mvremix.com/rock_blogs/2009/09/21/sick-puppies-hit-no-1-on-active-rock-radio-chart-with-lead-single-youre-going-down-on-tour-now-with-shinedown-joins-nickelback-on-tour-in-australia-nov-10/
  2. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/features/top-25-tours-of-2009-1004053062.story
  3. ^ a b http://livedaily.com/news/15289.html
  4. ^ http://nickelbackfans.blogspot.com/2008/04/nickelback-forum-news-2008-european.html

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