Concrete and Gold Tour

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Concrete and Gold Tour
World tour by Foo Fighters
Concrete and Gold Tour Official Tour Poster.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated album Concrete and Gold
Start dateMay 28, 2017 (2017-05-28)
End dateOctober 23, 2018 (2018-10-23)
Legs8
No. of shows
  • 30 in Europe
  • 5 in Asia
  • 67 in North America
  • 6 in Oceania
  • 6 in South America
  • 113 in total
Box office$114 million [1] [2]
Foo Fighters concert chronology

Concrete and Gold Tour [3] was the ninth concert tour by American rock band Foo Fighters, in support of Concrete and Gold , their ninth studio album. It began May 28, 2017, in Napa, California, [4] and it concluded October 23, 2018 in Calgary, Canada. It marked the first time since November 2015 that the band had toured. The tour also featured summer festivals in Europe and Asia.

Contents

Songs performed

Foo Fighters

The Colour and the Shape

There Is Nothing Left to Lose

One by One

In Your Honor

Five Songs and a Cover

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Greatest Hits

Wasting Light

Sonic Highways

Saint Cecilia (EP)

Concrete and Gold

Covers

Non-complete covers

Setlist

This set list is representative of the show on October 20, 2017. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Run"
  2. "All My Life"
  3. "Learn to Fly"
  4. "The Pretender"
  5. "The Sky Is a Neighborhood"
  6. "Walk"
  7. "Rope"
  8. "Sunday Rain"
  9. "My Hero"
  10. "These Days"
  11. "Let it Die"
  12. "I'll Stick Around"
  13. "White Limo"
  14. "Arlandria"
  15. "Times Like These"
  16. "Breakout"
  17. "Make it Right"
  18. "Skin and Bones"
  19. "Fly Like an Eagle" (Steve Miller Band cover)
  20. "Another One Bites the Dust" (Queen cover)
  21. "Blitzkrieg Bop" (Ramones cover)
  22. "Monkey Wrench"
  23. "Best of You"

Encore

  1. "Dirty Water"
  2. "This Is a Call"
  3. "Breakdown" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
  4. "Everlong"

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, attendance, and gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueOpening actsAttendanceRevenue
North America [5] [6]
May 28, 2017 Napa United States BottleRock Napa Valley
Europe [7] [8] [9]
June 16, 2017 Reykjavík Iceland Laugardalur Park
June 19, 2017 Helsinki Finland Hietaniemi Beach Biffy Clyro
The Kills
Apulanta
VANT
June 21, 2017 Riga Latvia Lucavsala Island Biffy Clyro

The Kills

June 24, 2017 [lower-alpha 1] Pilton England Glastonbury Festival
June 26, 2017 Budapest Hungary Budapest Sports Arena God Damn
June 27, 2017 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena Red Fang
June 29, 2017 [lower-alpha 2] Gdynia Poland Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport G-Eazy
The Kills
June 30, 2017 [lower-alpha 3] Roskilde Denmark Roskilde Fairgrounds Seun Kuti
Yasiin Bey
Father John Misty
July 2, 2017 [lower-alpha 4] Werchter Belgium Werchter Festival Park
July 3, 2017 Paris France AccorHotels Arena
July 6, 2017 [lower-alpha 5] Madrid Spain Caja Mágica The Lumineers
July 7, 2017 [lower-alpha 6] Lisbon Portugal Passeio Marítimo de Algés The Kills
The Courteeners
The Cult
Tiago Bettencourt
July 10, 2017 Athens Greece Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Asia [10] [11]
August 19, 2017 [lower-alpha 7] Osaka Japan Maishima Sports Island Babymetal
Man with a Mission
Royal Blood
All Time Low
Circa Waves
The Struts
August 20, 2017 [lower-alpha 8] Chiba Chiba Marine Stadium
August 22, 2017 Seoul South Korea Jamsil Soccer Field
August 24, 2017 Bangkok Thailand Challenger Hall Arena
August 26, 2017Singapore National Stadium
Europe [12]
September 10, 2017 [lower-alpha 9] Berlin Germany Treptower Park
September 14, 2017 Stockholm Sweden Vasateatern
September 16, 2017 Barcelona SpainBARTS
September 19, 2017 London England The O2 Arena Idles 18,285 / 19,013$1,641,900
September 21, 2017 Royal Albert Hall
North America [13] [14]
October 7, 2017 [lower-alpha 10] San Bernardino United States Glen Helen Regional Park
October 12, 2017 Washington, D.C. The Anthem 6,000 / 6,000$610,525
October 14, 2017 Richmond Richmond Coliseum The Struts 10,758 / 10,758$1,019,176
October 15, 2017 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
October 17, 2017 Columbia Colonial Life Arena
October 18, 2017 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena
October 20, 2017 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena
October 26, 2017 Birmingham Legacy Arena 10,684 / 11,200$912,536
October 28, 2017 New Orleans Voodoo Music + Arts Experience
November 7, 2017 Madison Kohl Center The Struts 12,229 / 12,229$1,205,329
November 8, 2017 Champaign State Farm Center 8,877 / 9,000$826,803
November 10, 2017 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena 13,660 / 13,660$1,287,310
November 11, 2017 Sioux Falls Denny Sanford Premier Center 10,945 / 10,945$1,018,273
November 13, 2017 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 7,193 / 8,600$585,835
November 15, 2017 Tulsa BOK Center 12,064 / 12,064$1,011,911
November 18, 2017 [lower-alpha 11] Mexico City Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
December 1, 2017 Fresno United States Save Mart Center The Struts
December 2, 2017 Sacramento Golden 1 Center
December 4, 2017 Spokane Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena
December 5, 2017 Eugene Matthew Knight Arena
December 7, 2017 Nampa Ford Idaho Center Bob Mould
December 9, 2017 Billings Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
December 10, 2017 Casper Casper Events Center
December 12, 2017 Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena
December 31, 2017 Las Vegas The Cosmopolitan at Las Vegas
Oceania [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]
January 20, 2018 Perth Australia nib Stadium Weezer 31,231 / 32,000
January 23, 2018 Adelaide Coopers Stadium 20,000 / 20,000
January 25, 2018 Brisbane Suncorp Stadium 49,852 / 52,500
January 27, 2018 Sydney ANZ Stadium 71,314 / 83,500
January 30, 2018 Melbourne Etihad Stadium 70,000 / 72,000
February 3, 2018 Auckland New Zealand Mt Smart Stadium
South America (joint tour with Queens of the Stone Age)
February 25, 2018 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Maracanã Stadium Ego Kill Talent
February 27, 2018 São Paulo Allianz Parque
February 28, 2018
March 2, 2018 Curitiba Pedreira Paulo Leminski
March 4, 2018 Porto Alegre Estádio Beira-Rio
March 7, 2018 Buenos Aires Argentina Vélez Sarsfield COYA [27]
North America
April 18, 2018 Austin United States Austin360 Amphitheater The Struts
April 19, 2018 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
April 21, 2018 Dallas Starplex Pavilion
April 22, 2018 Bossier City CenturyLink Center
April 25, 2018 Tampa MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
April 26, 2018 West Palm Beach Coral Sky Amphitheater
April 28, 2018 Atlanta Georgia State Stadium
April 29, 2018 Jacksonville Metropolitan Park
May 1, 2018 Lexington Rupp Arena
May 3, 2018 Memphis FedEx Forum
May 4, 2018 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
Europe
June 1, 2018 [lower-alpha 12] Nürburg Germany Nürburgring
June 3, 2018 [lower-alpha 13] Nuremberg Zeppelinfeld
June 5, 2018 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi Goat
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
June 10, 2018 Hamburg Germany Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld The Kills
Wolf Alice
June 11, 2018 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis Wolf Alice
June 13, 2018 Bern Switzerland Stade de Suisse The Kills
Wolf Alice
June 14, 2018 [lower-alpha 14] Florence Italy Ippodromo delle Cascine
June 16, 2018 [lower-alpha 15] Landgraaf Netherlands Megaland
June 17, 2018 Paris France Brétigny-sur-Orge Air Base
June 19, 2018 Manchester England Etihad Stadium Wolf Alice
The Cribs
June 22, 2018 London London Stadium Wolf Alice
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
June 23, 2018The Kills
Slaves
Starcrawlers
North America
July 6, 2018 Columbia United States Merriweather Post Pavilion The Struts
July 7, 2018 Camden BB&T Pavilion
July 9, 2018 Quebec City CanadaFestival de Quebec
July 10, 2018 Ottawa Ottawa Bluesfest
July 12, 2018 Toronto Rogers Centre The Beaches

The Struts

July 14, 2018 Wantagh United States Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater N/A
July 16, 2018 New York City Madison Square Garden The Struts
July 17, 2018
July 19, 2018 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena N/A
July 21, 2018 Boston Fenway Park
July 22, 2018
July 25, 2018 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
July 26, 2018 Noblesville Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center The Struts
July 29, 2018 Chicago Wrigley Field Melkbelly

The Struts

76,299 / 76,299$6,490,979
July 30, 2018 Touched by Ghoul

The Breeders

September 1, 2018 Seattle Safeco Field
September 8, 2018 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
September 10, 2018 Portland United States Moda Center
September 12, 2018 San Jose SAP Center
September 14, 2018 San Diego KABOO Del Mar
October 6, 2018 [lower-alpha 16] San BernardinoGlen Helen Regional Park
October 8, 2018 Phoenix Talking Stick Resort Arena Gang of Youths
October 10, 2018 Denver Pepsi Center
October 12, 2018 Kansas City Sprint Center
October 13, 2018 St. Louis Enterprise Center
October 15, 2018 Detroit Little Caesars Arena
October 17, 2018 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum
October 18, 2018 St. Paul Xcel Energy Center
October 22, 2018 Edmonton Canada Rogers Place
October 23, 2018 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome
Total174,930 / 177,704 (98.4%)$9,107,687

Notes

  1. The show on June 24, 2017, in Pilton at Worthy Farm is part of the Glastonbury Festival.
  2. The show on June 29, 2017, in Gdynia at Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport is part of the Open'er Festival.
  3. The show on June 30, 2017, in Roskild at Roskilde Fairgrounds is part of the Roskilde Festival.
  4. The show on July 2, 2017, in Roskild at Werchter Festival Park is part of the Rock Werchter.
  5. The show on July 6, 2017, in Madrid at Caja Mágica is part of the Mad Cool Festival.
  6. The show on July 7, 2017, in Madrid at Passeio Marítimo de Algés is part of the Nos Alive Festival.
  7. The show on August 19, 2017, in Osaka at Maishima Sports Island is part of the Summer Sonic Festival.
  8. The show on August 20, 2017, in Chiba at Chiba Marine Stadium is part of the Summer Sonic Festival.
  9. The show on September 19, 2017, in Berlin at Treptower Park is part of the Lollapalooza.
  10. The show on October 7, 2017, in San Bernardino at Glen Helen Regional Park is part of the Cal Jam 17.
  11. The show on November 18, 2017, in Mexico City at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is part of the Corona Capital.
  12. The show on June 1, 2018, in Nürburg at Nürburgring is part of the Rock am Ring festival.
  13. The show on June 3, 2018, in Nuremberg at Zeppelinfeld is part of the Rock im Park festival.
  14. The show on June 14, 2018, in Firenze at Ippodromo delle Cascine is part of the Firenze Rocks festival.
  15. The show on June 16, 2018, in Landgraaf at Megaland is part of the Pinkpop festival.
  16. The show on October 6, 2018, in San Bernardino at Glen Helen Regional Park is part of the Cal Jam 18.

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