Face to Face 2009

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Face to Face 2009
Tour by Elton John and Billy Joel
Start date2 March 2009
End date1 August 2009
Legs3
No. of shows27
Elton John tour chronology
Rocket Man: Greatest Hits Live
(2007–10)		Face to Face 2009
(2009)		 Face to Face 2010
(2010)
Billy Joel tour chronology
Face to Face 2003
(2003)		Face to Face 2009
(2009)		 Face to Face 2010
(2010)

Face to Face 2009 was a 2009 concert tour by Elton John and Billy Joel, their first concert tour together in 7 years since Face to Face 2003. The tour originally consisted of four legs throughout the year. The last leg, in fall 2009, was cancelled due to an E. coli infection that John had picked up.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with John because it restrains his setlists. [1] [2]

Tour

The cancelled shows were rescheduled for the following year (Face to Face 2010).[ citation needed ]

The first two legs focused on arenas in the United States as would have the fourth leg, but it was cancelled. The third leg focused on the major baseball stadiums in the United States. [3]

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
North America
2 March 2009 Jacksonville United States Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena 13,433 / 13,433$1,807,308
5 March 2009 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum 19,401 / 19,401$2,141,042
7 March 2009 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 17,908 / 17,908$1,913,847
10 March 2009 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 16,065 / 16,065$1,914,327
14 March 2009 Atlanta Philips Arena 18,883 / 18,883$2,049,955
17 March 2009 Tulsa BOK Center 17,335 / 17,335$1,940,793
19 March 2009 Houston Toyota Center 16,612 / 16,612$2,125,479
21 March 2009 San Antonio AT&T Center 17,203 / 17,203$1,893,547
26 March 2009 Phoenix US Airways Center 17,495 / 17,495$2,129,764
28 March 2009 Anaheim Honda Center 33,548 / 33,548$3,576,465
30 March 2009
2 May 2009 Fargo Fargodome 20,573 / 20,573$1,616,699
5 May 2009 St. Paul Xcel Energy Center 18,273 / 18,273$2,509,482
7 May 2009 Madison Kohl Center 15,943 / 15,943$1,883,487
12 May 2009 Omaha Qwest Center Omaha 17,211 / 17,211$2,258,537
14 May 2009 St. Louis Scottrade Center 19,692 / 19,692$2,450,119
16 May 2009 Nashville Sommet Center 17,211 / 17,211$2,258,537
19 May 2009 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse 16,840 / 16,840$2,013,316
21 May 2009 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 20,827 / 20,827$2,320,120
23 May 2009 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 20,045 / 20,045$2,562,259
26 May 2009 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 37,266 / 37,266$6,236,533
30 May 2009
1 June 2009 Ottawa Scotiabank Place 19,440 / 19,440$2,576,723
3 June 2009 Montreal Bell Centre 16,555 / 16,555$2,394,576
11 July 2009Washington, D.C.United States Nationals Park 38,617 / 38,617$4,638,645
14 July 2009 Columbus Nationwide Arena 18,395 / 18,395$2,027,791
16 July 2009 Chicago Wrigley Field 77,520 / 77,520$11,154,840
18 July 2009 Foxborough Gillette Stadium 52,007 / 52,007$6,209,342
21 July 2009ChicagoWrigley Field [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 1]
30 July 2009 Philadelphia Citizens Bank Park 89,690 / 89,690$11,853,455
1 August 2009
Total665,371 / 665,371 (100%)$83,818,343
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
4 November 2009Seattle, WashingtonKeyArenaRescheduled to 3 February 2010 [4]
7 November 2009Seattle, WashingtonKeyArenaRescheduled to 6 February 2010 [5]
10 November 2009Portland, OregonRose GardenRescheduled to 10 February 2010 [6]
14 November 2009Oakland, CaliforniaOracle ArenaRescheduled to 13 February 2010 [7] [8]
17 November 2009San Jose, CaliforniaHP PavilionRescheduled to 16 February 2010 [9] [10]
20 November 2009Salt Lake City, UtahEnergySolutions CenterRescheduled to 19 February 2010 [11]
22 November 2009Denver, ColoradoPepsi CenterRescheduled to 22 February 2010 [12]
25 November 2009Oklahoma City, OklahomaFord CenterRescheduled to 25 February 2010 [13]
28 November 2009Little Rock, ArkansasVerizon CenterCancelled [14]
1 December 2009Kansas City, MissouriSprint CenterRescheduled to 27 February 2010 [15]
4 December 2009Buffalo, New YorkHSBC ArenaRescheduled to 9 March 2010 [16]
7 December 2009Albany, New YorkTimes Union CenterRescheduled to 11 March 2010 [17]

Setlist

Standard setlist

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

  1. Your Song
  2. Just the Way You Are
  3. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  4. My Life

Elton John & Band

  1. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
  2. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
  3. Levon
  4. Madman Across the Water
  5. Tiny Dancer
  6. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  7. Daniel
  8. Rocket Man
  9. Philadelphia Freedom
  10. I'm Still Standing
  11. Crocodile Rock

Billy Joel & Band

  1. Prelude/Angry Young Man
  2. Movin' Out
  3. Allentown
  4. Zanzibar
  5. Don't Ask Me Why
  6. She's Always a Woman
  7. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
  8. River of Dreams
  9. We Didn't Start the Fire
  10. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
  11. Only the Good Die Young

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

  1. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
  2. Uptown Girl
  3. The Bitch is Back
  4. You May Be Right
  5. Bennie and the Jets
  6. Candle in the Wind
  7. Piano Man

Notes

  1. 1 2 The score data is representative of the two shows in Chicago, Illinois at Wrigley Field on 16 July and 21 July respectively.

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