Peachtree Road Tour

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Peachtree Road Tour
Tour by Elton John
LocationNorth America • Europe
Associated album Peachtree Road
Start date4 November 2004
End date14 December 2005
Legs6
No. of shows81
Elton John concert chronology

The Peachtree Road Tour was a concert tour by Elton John. The tour started in on 4 November 2004 with the album launch in Atlanta. [1] The tour was to promote John's album Peachtree Road . The tour moved on to Europe for two dates at the end of the year. The following year, 2005, John toured in promotion with the album in North America before returning tour Europe once again. The tour came to an end on 14 December 2005 in Zürich, Switzerland. [2]

Contents

On the European tour John and his band performed several very large-scale concerts at Reading, [3] Southampton, [4] Norwich, [5] Huddersfield, Stoke-on-Trent, [6] Coventry, [7] Watford and Dublin.

Set list

Standard US set list
  1. "Weight of the World"
  2. "Porch Swing in Tupelo"
  3. "Answer in the Sky"
  4. "Turn the Light Out When You Leave"
  5. "My Elusive Drug"
  6. "They Call Her the Cat"
  7. "Freaks in Love"
  8. "All That I'm Allowed"
  9. "Bennie and the Jets"
  10. "Daniel"
  11. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  12. "Rocket Man"
  13. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
  14. "Tiny Dancer"
  15. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  16. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
  17. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  18. "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
  19. "Levon"
  20. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  21. "I'm Still Standing"
  22. "The Bitch Is Back"
  23. "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)"
  24. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
  25. "Your Song"
Standard European set list
  1. "Pinball Wizard"
  2. "Bennie and the Jets"
  3. "Daniel"
  4. "Turn the Lights Out When You Leave"
  5. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  6. "Rocket Man"
  7. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
  8. "Sacrifice"
  9. "Electricity"
  10. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  11. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
  12. "Are You Ready for Love"
  13. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  14. "All That I'm Allowed"
  15. "Porch Swing in Tupelo"
  16. "They Call Her the Cat"
  17. "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
  18. "Levon"
  19. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  20. "I'm Still Standing"
  21. "The Bitch Is Back"
  22. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
  23. "Candle in the Wind"
  24. "Your Song"
Standard European set list (fall 2005)
  1. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
  2. "Bennie and the Jets"
  3. "Daniel"
  4. "Turn the Lights Out When You Leave"
  5. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  6. "Rocket Man"
  7. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
  8. "Blessed"
  9. "The One"
  10. "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
  11. "Sacrifice"
  12. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  13. "Tiny Dancer"
  14. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  15. "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
  16. "They Call Her the Cat"
  17. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  18. "I'm Still Standing"
  19. "The Bitch Is Back"
  20. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
  21. "Crocodile Rock"
  22. "Your Song"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueTickets sold / availableRevenue
North America
4 November 2004 Atlanta United States The Tabernacle
5 November 2004
Europe
7 December 2004 Newcastle England Metro Radio Arena
9 December 2004 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
13 December 2004London Hammersmith Apollo
16 December 2004
17 December 2004
18 December 2004
North America
18 March 2005 Sunrise United States Office Depot Center 15,979 / 15,979$1,170,085
19 March 2005 Orlando TD Waterhouse Centre 13,702 / 13,702$795,050
23 March 2005 Oklahoma City Ford Center 14,027 / 19,420$1,060,150
24 March 2005 Dallas American Airlines Center 17,595 / 17,595$1,112,330
26 March 2005 Houston Toyota Center 15,926 / 15,926$1,060,150
22 April 2005 Milwaukee Bradley Center
23 April 2005 Rosemont Allstate Arena 15,434 / 15,434$1,338,300
24 April 2005 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 18,278 / 18,278$1,367,863
28 April 2005 Kansas City Kemper Arena 15,516 / 15,516$1,002,390
29 April 2005 Minneapolis Target Center 14,613 / 14,613$1,081,125
3 May 2005 Denver Pepsi Center 14,015 / 14,015$1,231,627
5 May 2005 Glendale Glendale Arena 14,824 / 14,824$1,243,230
6 May 2005 San Diego Cox Arena 10,485 / 10,485$847,424
7 May 2005 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond 13,359 / 13,359$1,227,560
Europe
24 May 2005ParisFrance Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
26 May 2005 Reading England Madejski Stadium 20,764 / 20,764$1,902,692
28 May 2005 Southampton St Mary's Stadium 25,925 / 25,925$2,432,630
29 May 2005 Norwich Carrow Road 21,903 / 21,903$2,047,579
1 June 2005 Bratislava Slovakia Tyrsovo Nabrezie
3 June 2005 Huddersfield England Galpharm Stadium
4 June 2005 Stoke-on-Trent Britannia Stadium
5 June 2005 Bolton Reebok Stadium
8 June 2005 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum
10 June 2005 Nottingham England National Ice Centre
11 June 2005 Coventry Highfield Road
12 June 2005 Glasgow Scotland Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
14 June 2005 Cardiff Wales Cardiff International Arena
15 June 2005
16 June 2005 Peterborough EnglandThe Embankment
18 June 2005 Watford Vicarage Road 23,450 / 23,450$2,938,980
19 June 2005 Swindon County Ground
25 June 2005 Edinburgh Scotland Easter Road Stadium
26 June 2005 Kilmarnock Rugby Park
29 June 2005 Marbella SpainMijas Costa Hipodrome
30 June 2005 Guadalajara Municipal Football Stadium
2 July 2005 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena 27,563 / 30,000$2,098,608
7 July 2005 Bonn GermanyMuseumsplatz
9 July 2005 Aarhus Aarhus Stadion
10 July 2005 Bielefeld Schuco Arena
12 July 2005 Perugia ItalyJazz Arena
13 July 2005 Bergamo Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia
1 September 2005
3 September 2005Rome Colosseum
North America
6 September 2005 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 33,935 / 33,935$3,061,428
7 September 2005
9 September 2005 Philadelphia United States Wachovia Center 15,616 / 15,616$1,442,995
10 September 2005Washington, D.C. MCI Center 16,459 / 16,459$1,429,790
16 September 2005 Boston TD Banknorth Garden 31,164 / 31,164$2,648,935
17 September 2005
21 September 2005New York City Madison Square Garden 46,708 / 46,708$4,123,815
23 September 2005
24 September 2005
30 September 2005 Nashville Gaylord Entertainment Center
1 October 2005 Atlanta Philips Arena 15,605 / 15,605$1,335,525
4 November 2005 Memphis FedExForum 13,314 / 13,314$844,833
5 November 2005 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 12,398 / 17,000$734,565
8 November 2005 Richmond Richmond Coliseum 11,214 / 11,214$679,810
9 November 2005 Winston-Salem LJVM Coliseum 11,755 / 11,755$497,756
12 November 2005 Charlotte Bobcats Arena 14,600 / 14,600$774,295
16 November 2005 Columbia Colonial Center 12,404 / 12,404$522,466
18 November 2005 Columbus Nationwide Arena 16,567 / 16,567$969,065
19 November 2005 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse
Europe
29 November 2005 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Areena
30 November 2005 Turku Elysée Arena
2 December 2005 Stockholm Sweden Globen Arena
3 December 2005 Gothenburg Scandinavium
5 December 2005 Hamburg Germany Color Line Arena
8 December 2005 Stuttgart Schleyerhalle
12 December 2005 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
14 December 2005 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
10 December 2004Nottingham, EnglandNational Ice CentreRescheduled to 10 June 2005 [8]
12 December 2004Glasgow, ScotlandScottish Exhibition and Conference CentreRescheduled to 12 June 2005 [9]
4 March 2005Bossier City, LouisianaCenturyTel CenterCancelled [10]
5 March 2005New OrleansNew Orleans ArenaCancelled
8 March 2005Richmond, VirginiaRichmond ColiseumCancelled
9 March 2005Winston-Salem, North CarolinaLawrence Joel Veterans Memorial ColiseumCancelled
11 March 2005Columbus, OhioNationwide ArenaCancelled
12 March 2005IndianapolisConseco FieldhouseCancelled
14 March 2005Columbia, South CarolinaColonial CenterCancelled
20 March 2005 Gainesville, Florida O'Connell CenterCancelled [11]
6 December 2005 Oberhausen König Pilsener Arena Postponed to 1 June 2006
9 December 2005 Mannheim SAP Arena Postponed to 31 May 2006

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  2. ↑ Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine eltonography.com, Retrieved 2 September 2011
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  9. ↑ "Elton cancels Glasgow concert". EltonFan. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
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