Dark Matter World Tour

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Dark Matter World Tour
Tour by Pearl Jam
Dark Matter World Tour Poster.jpg
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania
Associated album Dark Matter
Start dateMay 4, 2024
End dateMay 18, 2025
Legs5
No. of shows48
Box office$120 million (30 shows) [1] [2]
Pearl Jam concert chronology

The Dark Matter World Tour is an ongoing concert tour by the American rock band Pearl Jam in support of their twelfth studio album Dark Matter. The tour began on May 4, 2024 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada, and is scheduled to conclude on May 18, 2025 at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, United States.

Contents

The first leg of the tour consisted of eleven shows on the West Coast. The second leg of the tour, focused in Europe, originally had 9 scheduled shows, however, their June 29 London show as well as their July 2 and July 3 shows in Berlin were cancelled due to illness in the band. The third leg returned to North America with a mix of shows in the East Coast, Midwest, and Western United States. On July 25th 2024, Pearl Jam announced they would be playing two shows at the band run Ohana Festival which would be added at the end of the third leg of the tour. [3] The fourth leg of the tour went to Oceania, featuring shows in New Zealand and Australia. The fifth leg of the tour was announced on December 5, 2024, with additional date on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on January 15, 2025, and will consist of 11 shows focused on the Southeastern United States. [4] [5]

Opening acts

Seattle band Deep Sea Diver were the openers for leg one. The Murder Capital and Richard Ashcroft both opened for the band on the second leg. Glen Hansard opened on the third leg of the tour, and the fourth leg was opened by Pixies for every show on the leg, and Liam Finn, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, and Cosmic Psychos for select shows. [6] [7]

Set list

The following set list was obtained from the concert held on August 22, 2024, at the Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, United States. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. [8]

  1. "Given to Fly"
  2. "Nothing as It Seems"
  3. "Low Light"
  4. "Why Go"
  5. "Corduroy"
  6. "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town"
  7. "Scared of Fear"
  8. "React, Respond"
  9. "Wreckage"
  10. "Even Flow"
  11. "Hard to Imagine"
  12. "Dark Matter"
  13. "Won’t Tell"
  14. "Upper Hand"
  15. "Jeremy"
  16. "Gimme Some Truth" (John Lennon cover)
  17. "Porch"
  18. "Her Majesty" (The Beatles cover)
  19. "Just Breathe"
  20. "Smile"
  21. "Wasted Reprise"
  22. "Life Wasted"
  23. "Do the Evolution"
  24. "Setting Sun"
  25. "Alive"
  26. "Rockin' in the Free World" (Neil Young cover)

Tour dates

List of 2024 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
Date (2024)CityCountryVenueOpening actsAttendanceRevenue
May 4 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena Deep Sea Diver 27,654 / 27,654$4,262,442
May 6
May 10 Portland United States Moda Center 14,088 / 14,088$2,125,364
May 13 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 11,787 / 11,787$2,299,936
May 16 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena 25,180 / 25,180$4,672,853
May 18
May 21 Los Angeles Kia Forum 27,823 / 27,823$4,664,690
May 22
May 25 [a] Napa Valley Napa Valley Expo———
May 28 Seattle Climate Pledge Arena Deep Sea Diver29,423 / 29,423$5,893,644
May 30
June 22 Dublin Ireland Marlay Park The Murder Capital ——
June 25 Manchester England Co-Op Live ——
July 6 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi ——
July 8
July 11 [b] Madrid Iberdrola Music———
July 13 [c] Lisbon PortugalPasseio Marítimo de Algés
August 22 Missoula United States Washington–Grizzly Stadium Glen Hansard 25,326 / 25,326$3,932,418
August 26 Indianapolis Ruoff Music Center 24,697 / 24,697$2,282,757
August 29 Chicago Wrigley Field 81,910 / 81,910$13,689,882
August 31
September 3 New York Madison Square Garden 28,600 / 28,600$5,800,000
September 4
September 7 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 29,132 / 29,132$6,300,000
September 9
September 12 Baltimore CFG Bank Arena 12,188 / 12,188$2,600,000
September 15 Boston Fenway Park 74,802 / 74,802$12,547,015
September 17
September 27 [d] Dana Point Doheny State Beach ———
September 29 [d]
November 8 Auckland New Zealand Mount Smart Stadium Pixies 71,000 / 71,000$7,900,000
November 10
November 13 Gold Coast Australia People First Stadium 46,900 / 46,900$7,000,000
November 16 Melbourne Marvel Stadium 116,000 / 116,000$15,700,000
November 18
November 21 Sydney ENGIE Stadium 80,000 / 80,000$11,100,000
November 23
List of 2025 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Date (2025)CityCountryVenueOpening actsAttendanceRevenue
April 24 Hollywood United States Hard Rock Live Dead Pioneers——
April 26
April 29 Atlanta State Farm Arena ——
May 1
May 3 [e] New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course ———
May 6 Nashville Bridgestone Arena Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers ——
May 8
May 11 Raleigh Lenovo Center ——
May 13
May 16 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena ——
May 18
Total726,510$112,771,001

Notes

  1. ↑ The May 25, 2024 performance was a part of the Bottle Rock Festival.
  2. ↑ The July 11, 2024 performance was a part of the Mad Cool Festival.
  3. ↑ The July 13, 2024 performance was a part of the Nos Alive Festival.
  4. 1 2 The performances on September 27 and 29, 2024 were part of Ohana Festival.
  5. ↑ The May 3, 2025 performance will be a part of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Full band shot of Pearl Jam playing at Madison Square Garden, September 3rd, 2024 Pearl-Jam-MSG-N1-2024-3.jpg
Full band shot of Pearl Jam playing at Madison Square Garden, September 3rd, 2024
Eddie Vedder singing into the microphone at Madison Square Garden, September 3rd, 2024 Pearl-Jam-MSG-N1-2024-1.jpg
Eddie Vedder singing into the microphone at Madison Square Garden, September 3rd, 2024
Eddie Vedder singing into the microphone and raising his hand at Madison Square Garden, September 3rd, 2024 Pearl-Jam-MSG-N1-2024-2.jpg
Eddie Vedder singing into the microphone and raising his hand at Madison Square Garden, September 3rd, 2024

Cancelled dates

DateCityCountryVenueReason for cancellation
June 29, 2024 London England Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Illness [16]
July 2, 2024 Berlin Germany Waldbühne
July 3, 2024

Personnel

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