Helplessness Blues Tour

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Helplessness Blues Tour

Helplessness Blues Album Cover
Tour by Fleet Foxes
Location Worldwide
Associated album Helplessness Blues
Start date 15 April 2011 (2011-04-15)
End date 20 January 2012 (2012-01-20)
Legs 8
Shows 113
Fleet Foxes tour chronology
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The Helplessness Blues Tour was a world tour by Seattle folk band Fleet Foxes in support of their second album Helplessness Blues which was released on May 3, 2011. The tour visited North America, Europe, Oceania and Japan.

Background

The Tour began in the band home town of Seattle, Washington before moving across the United States and Canada. A European leg was then announced which began in Berlin, Germany. This leg included three sold out shows at London's Hammersmith Apollo. A second North American leg took place July 14 and July 24, 2011 with another European leg taking place from August 11–20. The Band will perform at some of Europe's best known Festivals including the Glastonbury Festival and Rock Werchter. The fifth leg of the tour began with two shows at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, followed by a string of shows in the United States. A Third European leg will take place in November–December 2011 before moving onto Australia for some festival shows. A short Japanese leg will also take place in January 2012. Two New Zealand shows were announced on September 5. Australian headline shows were also announced for January 2012.

Example Set List

  1. "The Cascades"
  2. "Grown Ocean"
  3. "Drops in the River"
  4. "Battery Kinzie"
  5. "Bedouin Dress"
  6. "Sim Sala Bim"
  7. "Mykonos"
  8. "Your Protector"
  9. "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song"
  10. "White Winter Hymnal"
  11. "Ragged Wood"
  12. "Lorelai"
  13. "Montezuma"
  14. "He Doesn't Know Why"
  15. "The Shrine/An Argument"
  16. "Blue Spotted Tail"
  17. "Blue Ridge Mountains"
Encore
  1. "Oliver James"
  2. "Helplessness Blues"

Source:[1]

Support Acts

Tour dates

Number Date City Country Venue
Leg 1: North America
1 April 15, 2011 Seattle, Washington United States Columbia City Theatre
2 April 29, 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Vogue Theatre
3 April 30, 2011
4 May 1, 2011 Portland, Oregon United States Crystal Ballroom
5 May 2, 2011 Seattle, Washington Moore Theatre
6 May 3, 2011
7 May 5, 2011 Oakland, California Fox Theatre
8 May 6, 2011 San Diego, California Spreckels Theater
9 May 7, 2011 Hollywood, California Palladium
10 May 8, 2011 Tucson, Arizona Rialto Theatre
11 May 10, 2011 Austin, Texas Stubb's Bar-B-Q
12 May 11, 2011 Dallas, Texas Palladium Ballroom
13 May 13, 2011 Nashville, Tennessee Ryman Auditorium
14 May 14, 2011 Atlanta, Georgia The Tabernacle
15 May 15, 2011 Washington, D.C. DAR Constitution Hall
16 May 18, 2011 New York City, New York United Palace Theater
17 May 19, 2011
18 May 21, 2011 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania Tower Theater
Leg 2: Europe
19 May 25, 2011 Berlin Germany C-Halle
20 May 26, 2011 Dachau Rathausplatz
21 May 28, 2011 Barcelona Spain Parc del Fòrum Leisure Site[A]
22 May 30, 2011 Paris France Bataclan
23 May 31, 2011 London England HMV Hammersmith Apollo
24 June 1, 2011
25 June 2, 2011
26 June 23, 2011 Wolverhampton Civic Hall
27 June 24, 2011 Pilton Worthy Farm[B]
28 June 25, 2011 Belfast Northern Ireland Cathedral Quarter[C]
29 June 26, 2011 Cork Ireland The Docklands[D]
30 June 28, 2011 Manchester England Apollo
31 June 29, 2011 Edinburgh Scotland Corn Exchange
32 July 1, 2011 St Blazey England Eden Project[E]
33 July 3, 2011 Werchter Belgium Werchter Festival Grounds[F]
34 July 4, 2011 Paris France Salle Pleyel
35 July 6, 2011 Poznań Poland Lake Malta[G]
36 July 8, 2011 Oeiras Portugal Algés Riverside[H]
37 July 10, 2011 Turku Finland Ruissalo Island[I]
Leg 3: North America
38 July 14, 2011 Toronto, Ontario Canada Massey Hall
39 July 16, 2011 Chicago, Illinois United States Union Park[J]
40 July 17, 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota State Theatre
41 July 18, 2011 Kansas City, Missouri Uptown Theater
42 July 19, 2011 St. Louis, Missouri The Pageant
43 July 21, 2011 Denver, Colorado Fillmore Auditorium
44 July 22, 2011 Salt Lake City, Utah Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
45 July 23, 2011 Boise, Idaho Knitting Factory
46 July 24, 2011 Troutdale, Oregon McMenamins Edgefield Manor
Leg 4: Europe
47 August 11, 201 Oslo Norway Middelalderparken[K]
48 August 12, 2011 Gothenburg Sweden Slottsskogen[L]
49 August 13, 2011 Rees-Haldern Germany Festival Grounds[M]
50 August 14, 2011 Saint-Malo France Festival Grounds[N]
51 August 16, 2011 Brighton England Dome
52 August 18, 2011 Hasselt Belgium Kiewit[O]
53 August 19, 2011 Biddinghuizen Netherlands Spijk en Bremerberg[P]
54 August 20, 2011 Brecon Beacons Wales Glanusk Park Estate[Q]
Leg 5: North America[4]
55 September 6, 2011 Seattle, Washington United States Paramount Theatre
56 September 7, 2011
57 September 9, 2011 Reno, Nevada Grand Sierra Resort
58 September 10, 2011 Berkeley, California Hearst Greek Theatre
59 September 11, 2011 Big Sur, California Henry Miller Library
60 September 13, 2011 Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Bowl
61 September 14, 2011 Los Angeles, California Greek Theatre
62 September 15, 2011 Phoenix, Arizona Comerica Theatre
63 September 17, 2011 Tulsa, Oklahoma Cain's Ballroom
64 September 18, 2011 Austin, Texas Zilker Park[R]
65 September 20, 2011 Jacksonville, Florida Florida Theatre
66 September 21, 2011 Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh Amphitheatre
67 September 23, 2011 Columbia, Maryland Merriweather Post Pavilion
68 September 24, 2011 Brooklyn, New York Williamsburg Waterfront
69 September 25, 2011 Holyoke, Massachusetts Mountain Park
70 September 28, 2011 Cleveland, Ohio Masonic Audtorium
71 September 29, 2011 Ann Arbor, Michigan Hill Auditorium
72 September 30, 2011 Chicago, Illinois Chicago Theatre
73 October 1, 2011
74 October 3, 2011 Birmingham, Alabama Alabama Theatre
75 October 4, 2011 Asheville, North Carolina Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
76 October 5, 2011 Louisville, Kentucky The Louisville Palace
Leg 6: Europe
77 November 5, 2011 Bergen Norway Grieg Hall
78 November 6, 2011 Oslo Sentrum Scene
79 November 8, 2011 Stockholm Sweden Annexet
80 November 9, 2011 Malmö K.B. Hallen
81 November 10, 2011 Copenhagen Denmark Falconer Theatre
82 November 11, 2011 Weißenhäuser Strand Germany Rolling Stone Weekender
83 November 13, 2011 Katowice Poland Kozrywki Theatre
84 November 14, 2011 Zagreb Croatia Tvornica
85 November 15, 2011 Vienna Austria Museumsquartier
86 November 17, 2011 Rome Italy Atlantico
87 November 19, 2011 Bologna Estragon
88 November 20, 2011 Milan Teatro Smeraldo
89 November 21, 2011 Zurich Switzerland Komplex 457
90 November 22, 2011 Fribourg Fri-Son
91 November 24, 2011 Bilbao Spain Santana 27
92 November 25, 2011 Madrid La Riviera
93 November 26, 2011 Cartagena Jazz Festival
94 November 27, 2011 Barcelona L'Auditori
95 November 29, 2011 Amsterdam Netherlands Heineken Music Hall
96 November 30, 2011 Brussels Belgium Forest National
97 December 1, 2011 Leeds England O2 Academy Leeds
98 December 2, 2011 Minehead Butlins
Leg 7: Oceania
99 December 29, 2011 Lorne, Victoria Australia Festival Grounds[S]
100 December 30, 2011 Marion Bay, Tasmania
101 January 2, 2012 Sydney, New South Wales Sydney Opera House
102 January 3, 2012
103 January 4, 2012
104 January 6, 2012 Melbourne, Victoria Palais Theatre
105 January 7, 2012 Busselton, Western Australia Sir Stewart Bovell Park[T]
106 January 8, 2012
107 January 10, 2012 Brisbane, Queensland Tivoli
108 January 11, 2012
109 January 13, 2012 Wellington New Zealand Hunter Lodge
110 January 14, 2012 Auckland Town Hall
Leg 8: Asia
111 January 17, 2012 Osaka Japan Big cat
112 January 18, 2012 Nagoya Club Quattro
113 January 20, 2012 Tokyo Studio Coast
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

Box office score data

Venue City No. of Shows Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Stubb's Bar-B-Q Austin 1 2,200 / 2,200 (100%) $61,680[5]
DAR Constitution Hall Washington D.C. 1 3,500 / 3,500 (100%) $117,619[6]
Columbiahalle Berlin 1 3,167 / 3,500 (90%) $97,826[7]
State Theatre Minneapolis 1 2,054 / 2,054 (100%) $60,593[8]
Knitting Factory Boise 1 994 / 994 (100%) $27,366[9]
Hearst Greek Theatre Berkeley 1 6,694 / 7000 (96%) $264,207[10]
Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara 1 2,250 / 4,059 (55%) $68,725[10]
Greek Theatre Los Angeles 1 4,979 / 5,849 (85%) $176,395[11]
Williamsburg Waterfront Brooklyn 1 7,000 / 7,000 (100%) $276,500[12]
Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor 1 3,356 / 3,356 (100%) $114,104[12]
Chicago Theatre Chicago 2 6,878 / 6,878 (100%) $240,730[12]
Alabama Theatre Birmingham 1 1,723 / 2,062 (84%) $55,958[13]

Fleet Foxes

  • Robin Pecknold: lead vocals, guitar
  • Skyler Skjelset: lead guitar, mandolin
  • Christian Wargo: bass guitar, vocals
  • Casey Wescott: Keyboard, mandolin, vocals
  • Joshua Tillman: drums, vocals, arrangements
  • Morgan Henderson: multi-instrumentalist, arrangements

References

  1. ↑ "Fleet Foxes at The Pageant, set list". Christian Schaeffer. River Front Times. July 20, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011. 
  2. ↑ "The Cave Singers to open for Fleet Foxes". . May 4, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "On The Road: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, The Walkmen and other". Alex Bigman. sfappeal.com. August 2, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Fleet Foxes add Tour Dates". Pitchfork.com. July 26, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011. 
  5. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-05-19. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2011-08-07. 
  6. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-06-23. Archived from the original on 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2011-08-07. 
  7. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2012-01-12. 
  8. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-08-03. Retrieved 2011-08-07. 
  9. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2011-09-01. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-09-29. 
  11. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-09-21. Retrieved 2011-09-21. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Promethues Global Media. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-10-05. 
  13. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore: Current Scores". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2011-11-03. 

External links

Fleet Foxes
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
Former members
  • Trevor Alderfer
  • Craig Curran
  • Bryn Lumsden
  • Nick Peterson
  • J. Tillman
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