Clockwork Angels Tour

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Clockwork Angels Tour
Tour by Rush
Clockwork Angels Poster.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
Associated album Clockwork Angels
Start dateSeptember 7, 2012
End dateAugust 4, 2013
Legs2
No. of shows
  • 62 in North America
  • 10 in Europe
  • 72 in total
Rush concert chronology

The Clockwork Angels Tour was a concert tour in support of the 2012 album, Clockwork Angels , by the Canadian rock band Rush. The tour included shows in Canada, the United States and throughout Europe. A nine-piece string ensemble accompanied the band during the second set of each performance, which highlighted songs from Clockwork Angels.

Contents

Set list

Standard Set list:

Set One

  1. "Subdivisions"
  2. "The Big Money"
  3. "Force Ten"
  4. "Grand Designs"
  5. "The Body Electric" or "Middletown Dreams" or "Limelight"
  6. "Territories"
  7. "The Analog Kid"
  8. "Bravado" or "The Pass"
  9. "Where's My Thing? (Part IV, "Gangster of Boats" Trilogy)"
  10. "Far Cry"

Set Two

  1. "Caravan"
  2. "Clockwork Angels"
  3. "The Anarchist"
  4. "Carnies"
  5. "The Wreckers"
  6. "Headlong Flight"
  7. "Halo Effect"
  8. "Seven Cities of Gold" or "Wish Them Well"
  9. "The Garden"
  10. "Manhattan Project" or "Dreamline"
  11. "Red Sector A"
  12. "YYZ"
  13. "The Spirit of Radio"

Encore

  1. "Tom Sawyer"
  2. "2112: Overture/The Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale" or "Working Man"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueAttendance/Capacity/Gross
North America [1]
September 7, 2012 Manchester United States Verizon Wireless Arena 8,137 / 8,137 / $608,383
September 9, 2012 Bristow Jiffy Lube Live 10,345 / 12,822 / $757,162
September 11, 2012 Pittsburgh Consol Energy Center 8,655 / 10,268 / $507,952
September 13, 2012 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 7,303 / 10,899 / $489,034
September 15, 2012 Chicago United Center 11,307 / 12,130 / $1,113,292
September 18, 2012 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 8,238 / 13,485 / $616,595
September 20, 2012 Columbus Nationwide Arena 8,611 / 10,204 / $587,173
September 22, 2012 St. Louis Scottrade Center 10,772 / 10,942 / $790,134
September 24, 2012 Minneapolis Target Center 8,013 / 10,652 / $561,972
September 26, 2012 Winnipeg Canada MTS Centre
September 28, 2012 Saskatoon Credit Union Centre
September 30, 2012 Edmonton Rexall Place
October 10, 2012 Bridgeport United States Webster Bank Arena 7,339 / 7,339 / $650,355
October 12, 2012 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 11,885 / 12,810 / $943,272
October 14, 2012 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre
October 16, 2012
October 18, 2012 Montreal Centre Bell
October 20, 2012 Newark United States Prudential Center 12,139 / 12,139 / $1,022,913
October 22, 2012 New York City Barclays Center 9,904 / 10,815 / $870,736
October 24, 2012 Boston TD Garden 9,861 / 10,031 / $841,953
October 26, 2012 Buffalo First Niagara Center 13,215 / 13,215 / $831,239
October 28, 2012 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 8,025 / 10,383 / $594,890
October 30, 2012 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 7,523 / 10,095 / $541,143
November 1, 2012 Alpharetta Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park 12,086 / 12,086 / $926,850
November 3, 2012 Tampa 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre 10,567 / 11,542 / $720,653
November 13, 2012 Seattle KeyArena 9,793 / 10,199 / $823,060
November 15, 2012 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose 10,719 / 10,719 / $846,843
November 17, 2012 Anaheim Honda Center 9,065 / 10,102 / $761,265
November 19, 2012Los Angeles Gibson Amphitheatre 5,981 / 5,981 / $706,342
November 21, 2012 San Diego Valley View Casino Center 7,065 / 10,101 / $359,321
November 23, 2012 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena 7,847 / 10,006 / $839,405
November 25, 2012 Phoenix US Airways Center 8,858 / 10,121 / $604,667
November 28, 2012 Dallas American Airlines Center 10,509 / 10,509 / $764,483
November 30, 2012 San Antonio AT&T Center 9,396 / 10,150 / $742,544
December 2, 2012 Houston Toyota Center 11,091 / 11,091 / $904,931
Leg 2 [2]
April 23, 2013 Austin United States Frank Erwin Center 5,974 / 10,278 / $483,924
April 26, 2013 Sunrise BankAtlantic Center 6,245 / 7,552 / $549,795
April 28, 2013 Orlando Amway Center 7,783 / 10,142 / $623,608
May 1, 2013 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 7,272 / 9,531/ $564,666
May 3, 2013 Raleigh PNC Arena 7,902 / 8,583 / $607,010
May 5, 2013 Virginia Beach Farm Bureau Live 5,307 / 5,800 / $360,608
May 7, 2013 Baltimore 1st Mariner Arena 6,570 / 12,848 / $539,231
May 9, 2013 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 5,258 / 5,556 / $480,268
May 11, 2013 Atlantic City Etess Arena 4,500 / 4,823 / $566,630
Europe [3]
May 22, 2013 Manchester England Manchester Arena 7,806 / 8,898 / $771,853
May 24, 2013London The O2 Arena 12,418 / 15,050 / $1,216,510
May 26, 2013 Birmingham LG Arena
May 28, 2013 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
May 30, 2013 Glasgow Scotland Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
June 2, 2013 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome
June 4, 2013 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena
June 6, 2013Berlin O2 World Berlin
June 8, 2013 [A] Sölvesborg SwedenNorje Havsbad
June 10, 2013 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena
North America [4]
June 21, 2013 Hershey United States Giant Center 7,972 / 8,564 / $699,975
June 23, 2013 Wantagh Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 9,692 / 10,647 / $748,560
June 25, 2013 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center 7,557 / 8,129 / $491,853
June 28, 2013 Tinley Park First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 7,626 / 8,382 / $657,505
June 30, 2013 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena 8,786 / 9,726 / $612,081
July 2, 2013 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center 9,965 / 10,445 / $487,860
July 4, 2013 Milwaukee Summerfest 14,423 / 22,861 / $714,020
July 6, 2013 Hamilton Canada Copps Coliseum
July 8, 2013 Ottawa Ottawa Bluesfest
July 10, 2013 Quebec City Quebec City Summer Festival
July 12, 2013 Halifax Halifax Metro Centre
July 14, 2013
July 24, 2013 [B] Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome
July 24, 2013 Red Deer ENMAX Centrium
July 26, 2013 Vancouver Rogers Arena
July 28, 2013 Ridgefield United States Sleep Country Amphitheater 8,552 / 9,214 / $482,640
July 31, 2013 West Valley City USANA Amphitheatre 11,216 / 11,637 / $626,706
August 2, 2013 Denver Pepsi Center 10,409 / 11,266 / $816,641
August 4, 2013 Kansas City Sprint Center 8,450 / 8,789 / $654,900
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A This concert was a part of "Sweden Rock Festival"
B Concert moved to Red Deer due to a flood that damaged the Scotiabank Saddledome.

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