Revenge Is Sweeter tour

The Revenge Is Sweeter tour is a tour by The Veronicas which was announced in November 2008.^[1]

Tour information

The sixteen date tour was their first to extend outside of Australia into New Zealand.^[2] The tour will begin on 13 February 2009 in Newcastle and conclude on 7 March 2009 in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[3] On 3 April 2009 they announced the show would continue with a US leg starting on 4 June 2009 and ending on 18 July 2009 and then continuing in Japan from 7 August to 9 August 2009.^[4] On 5 May 2009 it was announced that there would be two shows in Canada one on 27 June and the other on 15 July before they head to Japan.^[5] Was announced on 4 August 2009 that while on a promotional visit to the United Kingdom 3 dates of the tour would be played from 23–25 September 2009. A CD/DVD version of the tour will be released on 1 September 2009 in Australia. After the tour ended they made their first show in Latin America in the Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009 in Bogota, Colombia.

Supporting acts

• Short Stack^[6] (Australia)
• Metro Station^[6] (Australia and New Zealand)
• Midnight Youth^[2] (New Zealand)
• P Money^[2] (New Zealand)
• Angry Anderson (Guest performer on 19 February in Sydney)
• The Pretty Reckless^[7] (USA) (select venues)
• Carney (USA/Canada) (select venues)
• The Federals (UK) (All Venues)

Tour dates

Critical reception

The tour received mostly positive reviews commenting on the crowd atomosphere and their vocal abilities.

GenQ stated "...the girls were on stage for 1 ½ hours of entertainment in every sense of the word".^[8]

The Courier Mail gave a positive review saying "There was plenty of sass, not to mention skin-tight sequined pants, multiple costume changes and lashings of red lipstick, but the girls' big voices were the main attraction" as well as commenting on their performance of 'Heavily Broken' stating "Their emotion-laden ballad Heavily Broken, dedicated to the victims of Victoria's Bushfires, was the only thing that could draw silence from the crowd" and ended it with a comment on the shows family friendly nature saying "If the applause was any indicator, Saturday night's crowd - mums and dads included - were proud of their local girls done good".^[9]

Adelaide Now reviewed their performance at the Thebarton Theatre and commented on their stage pressence saying "With a string quartet brought in for some songs, back-up dancers for others, The Veronicas delivered a varied and energy filled set"^[10]

Live DVD

Set list

1. "Take Me on the Floor"
2. "Everything"
3. "Popular"
4. "Mouth Shut"
5. "Revolution"
6. "Revenge Is Sweeter (Than You Ever Were)"
7. "Secret"¹
8. "Mother Mother"
9. "Hook Me Up"
10. "This Love"
11. "Don't Say Goodbye"
12. "Heavily Broken"
13. "4ever"
14. "Everything I'm Not"
15. "I Could Get Used to This"²
16. "All I Have"³
17. "When It All Falls Apart"⁴
18. "Untouched"
19. "This Is How It Feels"

• ^Note 1 : Performed in Australia, New Zealand and United States only.
• ^Note 2 : Performed in Australia and New Zealand only.
• ^Note 3 : Performed in Australia, New Zealand and United States only.
• ^Note 4 : Performed in Australia, Scotland and New Zealand only.

• Source:^[11][12][13]

References