| I'm With You Tour | ||||
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| Tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||
| Associated album | I'm with You | |||
| Start date | July 27, 2011 | |||
| End date | Ongoing | |||
| Legs | 5 | |||
| Shows | 93 *52 Europe *7 Latin America *5 Asia *28 United States |
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The I'm With You Tour is an ongoing worldwide concert tour by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers in support of their album I'm with You. It is the group's first tour since the Stadium Arcadium tour in 2006-07 and is the first to feature guitarist Josh Klinghoffer following the departure of John Frusciante in 2009. The band also added Mauro Refosco and Chris Warren to the touring lineup as backing musicians. The band returned to the stage for the first time since August 2007 with three secret invitation only shows in late July, 2011 as warm-up dates for their promotional tour. Following these shows, the band began the promotional leg of the tour, which included festivals in Asia. The official tour kick off was in Colombia on September 11, 2011. Following the Latin American leg, the band started their first European leg of the tour which will last until December 2011.[1] The band will kick off the first North American leg of their tour in January 2012.[2] Flea recently announced that the band plans to play Australia in 2012 as well.[3] A second European leg during the summer of 2012 is already taking shape, including their first show in Israel in September 2012.[4]
Flea said that he expects the tour to last "forever" while Anthony stated when talking about the new album, "I can't wait to go out and play this."[5] According to sound engineer, Dave Rat, the tour will last into 2013 and the band's schedule will be spent 3 weeks on the road and 2 weeks off throughout the tour, a plan they have followed on previous tours.[6]
The band's official website held a special pre-sale promotion for tickets. If you pre-ordered the new album by a certain date through their website you would be sent a password which would give you the first chance to buy two tickets before they went onsale to the general public. This promotion is expected to continue as further dates are announced prior to the album's release. In the past the band's fanclub would send out special pre-sale info but currently the fanclub is inactive.[7]
Flea's daughter, Clara Balzary has been touring with the band working as a photographer and videographer. Titled "View From The Road", Clara's photos and videos capture the band on stage and in settings most fans usually do not gain access to or get to see. Clara's work can be viewed on the band's official website and YouTube channel.[8]
On November 21, 2011, the band announced that they would start releasing professionally recorded live downloads of full concerts from their current tour. The shows will be available in MP3 for $9.95 and ALAC and FLAC for $12.95. Various selections from the band's archive will be added at a later date.[9]
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On July 30, 2011, the band took to a building rooftop along the boardwalk in Venice Beach, CA with director, Marc Klasfeld to film the music video for their single, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie. A crowd of hundreds filled the boardwalk below to watch and in between filming the band teased the crowd with mostly snippets and instrumental versions of their own songs and a few cover songs. "Skinny Sweaty Man" was performed for the first time since 2003. This was not a full show or stop on their tour. Below are the songs that were performed during breaks from filming the video.[10]
On August 30, 2011 at 8 pm, select movie cinemas world-wide aired a performance recorded earlier that day from E-Werk in Cologne, Germany titled, Red Hot Chili Peppers LIVE: I'm With You. The performance, which was held before a crowd of around 1,000 people was shown in over 900 movie cinemas and in high definition. A special repeat showing was screened in cinemas on September 1, 2011. Tickets went on sale August 5, 2011.[11] The concert was screened in cinemas throughout Japan for two weeks starting September 23, 2011. The delay in getting the movie to Japan was due to the time it took for subtitling.[12]
Fans who attended the theatrical showing were treated to various interviews with the band prior to the performance. The 90 minute show featured the band performaning the new album in sequence minus the song, "Even You Brutus" which Anthony said in the pre-concert interview would be left out though there was no reason given for not performing the song. "Did I Let You Know" was performed twice due to technical problems. "Me and My Friends" and "Give it Away" were also performed and they performed a short cover of "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter. The show also featured Flea playing piano live for the first time on the song "Happiness Loves Company". At one point half-way through the show, Flea complained about cramps in his hands and he asked the other three for a brief rest while they jammed. Anthony also had some trouble remembering lyrics to some of the new songs and recently told MTV in a interview that the band was nervous about playing them because they had so little time to practice before this show.[13]
| Venue | City | Tickets Sold / Available | Gross Revenue |
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| AsiaWorld Arena | Hong Kong | 13,738 / 13,882 (99%) | $ 1,242,620[44][45] |
| Simón Bolívar Park | Bogotá | 19,654 / 25,000 (90%) | $ 2,283,360 [46] |
| Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica | San Jose | 20,716 / 23,300 (92%) | $ 1,206,870 [47] |
| Estadio Nacional | Lima | 38,712 / 38,712 (100%) | $ 3,123,470 [48] |
| Estadio Monumental David Arellano | Santiago | 37,001 / 52,700 (73%) | $ 2,165,440[44][45] |
| Arena Anhembi | São Paulo | 27,267 / 28,900 (97%) | $ 2,676,920 [49] |
| O2 World Arena | Berlin | 9,343 / 11,897 (82%) | $ 859,497[44][45] |
| TOTAL | 166,431 / 194,391 (77%) | $ 13,149,177 |
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