Love Sux Tour

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Love Sux Tour
Tour by Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne, Canada Tour 2022 (Love Sux).jpg
Promotional poster for tour (2022)
Location
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
Associated album Love Sux
Start date30 April 2022 (2022-04-30)
End date10 May 2023 (2023-05-10)
No. of shows48
Supporting acts
Website avrillavigne.com
Avril Lavigne concert chronology

The Love Sux Tour [1] (originally titled Tour 2022 and the Bite Me Tour [2] ) was the seventh concert tour by Canadian recording artist, Avril Lavigne, launched in support of her seventh studio album Love Sux (2022). It commenced on April 30, 2022, in Orillia, Canada, and concluded on May, 10 2023, in London, England. The tour included appearances at festivals across Canada, Europe and North America.

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Background

Following her Head Above Water Tour in 2019, Lavigne announced shows in Europe, in October 2021. The dates were composed of canceled shows from 2020 and 2021, due to the pandemic. It was also reported shows in southeast Asia for May 2022, [3] but those shows were cancelled. Following the release of the album's lead single, the singer revealed concerts in Canada, her first in a decade. [4]

Alternative rap artists Mod Sun and Grandson served as the opening acts. [5]

One dollar from each concert ticket purchased was donated to the Avril Lavigne Foundation. [6]

The tour was originally slated to start February 2022, but were rescheduled to the spring. [7] European dates were postponed to 2023, citing venue and travel restrictions, related to the ongoing pandemic. [8] During the tour, Lavigne also performed at various music festivals including: Boston Calling, [9] When We Were Young [10] Rock in Rio [11] the Firefly Music Festival [12] and the iHeartRadio Music Festival. [13]

Set list

Lavigne performing at Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. Avril Lavigne performing at Caesars Windsor, 2022-05-12 01.jpg
Lavigne performing at Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario.

The set list is from the May 10, 2022, concert in London, Ontario. [14] It may not represent all concerts for the tour.

  1. "Cannonball"
  2. "Bite Me"
  3. "What the Hell"
  4. "Here's to Never Growing Up"
  5. "Complicated"
  6. "My Happy Ending"
  7. "Smile"
  8. "Losing Grip"
  9. "Flames" (performed with Mod Sun)
  10. "Love It When You Hate Me"
  11. "Love Sux"
  12. "Girlfriend"
  13. "Bois Lie"
  14. "Sk8er Boi"
Encore
  1. "Head Above Water"
  2. "I'm with You"

Tour dates

List of 2022 concerts [15]
DateCityCountryVenueOpening acts
April 30 Orillia Canada Casino Rama Entertainment Centre The Beaches
May 6 Quebec City Videotron Centre All Time Low
Mod Sun
May 7 [lower-alpha 1] Laval Place Bell All Time Low
Grandson
Mod Sun
May 9 Ottawa TD Place Arena All Time Low
Mod Sun
May 10 London Start.ca Performance Stage Grandson
Mod Sun
May 12 Windsor The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
May 13 Toronto Coca-Cola Coliseum
May 17 Winnipeg Canada Life Centre
May 18 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre
May 19 Edmonton Rogers Place
May 21 Calgary Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
May 22
May 24 Vancouver Thunderbird Sports Centre
May 25 Victoria Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
May 27 [lower-alpha 2] Boston United States Harvard Athletic Complex —
June 1 [lower-alpha 3] Moncton Canada Avenir Centre The Beaches
June 2 [lower-alpha 4] Halifax Scotiabank Centre
September 5 Lima Peru Arena Perú Alther
September 7 São Paulo Brazil Espaço Unimed Day Limns
September 9 [lower-alpha 5] Rio de Janeiro Parque dos Atletas —
September 22 [lower-alpha 6] Dover United States Dover Motor Speedway —
September 24 [lower-alpha 7] Las Vegas Area15
October 22 [lower-alpha 8] Winchester Las Vegas Festival Grounds
October 23 [lower-alpha 8]
October 29 [lower-alpha 8]
November 7 Yokohama Japan National Convention Hall —
November 9 Tokyo Tokyo Garden Theatre
November 10
November 11 Nagoya Aichi Sky Expo Hall A
November 14 Osaka Intex Osaka
List of 2023 concerts [21]
DateCityCountryVenueOpening acts
April 12ParisFrance Zénith Paris Girlfriends
Phem
April 14 Amsterdam Netherlands AFAS Live
April 15 Berlin Germany Verti Music Hall
April 17 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
April 18 Offenbach Stadthalle Offenbach
April 20 Munich Kulturhalle Zenith
April 21 Zürich Switzerland The Hall
April 23 Padua Italy Arena Spettacoli
April 24 Milan Mediolanum Forum
April 26 Prague Czech Republic Tipsport Arena
April 27 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
April 28 Stuttgart Germany Porsche-Arena
April 30 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena
May 3 Cologne Germany Palladium
May 4 Brussels Belgium Forest National
May 6 Manchester England O2 Apollo
May 9London Alexandra Palace
May 10

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts
DateCityCountryVenueReason
November 1, 2022Hong Kong AsiaWorld–Arena COVID-19 pandemic in Asia [22]
November 3, 2022 Quezon City Philippines Araneta Coliseum

Notes

  1. ↑ Concert was originally scheduled for May 1, 2022.
  2. ↑ The May 27, 2022, concert was part of Boston Calling Music Festival. [16]
  3. ↑ Concert was originally scheduled for May 3, 2022.
  4. ↑ Concert was originally scheduled for May 4, 2022.
  5. ↑ The September 9, 2022, concert was part of Rock in Rio. [17]
  6. ↑ The September 22, 2022, concert was part of Firefly Music Festival. [18]
  7. ↑ The September 24, 2022, concert was part of iHeartRadio Music Festival. [19]
  8. 1 2 3 The October 22, 23 and 29, 2022, concerts were part of When We Were Young. [20]

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