Reason Tour

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Reason Tour
Tour by Melanie C
Melanie C - Reason Tour.jpg
LocationEurope
Associated album Reason
Start date24 April 2003
End date17 December 2003
No. of shows25
Melanie C concert chronology
  • Northern Star Tour
    (2000–01)
  • Reason Tour
    (2003)
  • The Barfly Mini-Tour
    (2004)

The Reason Tour (also known as the On a Mission Tour) was the third set of concerts performed by English singer Melanie C. The tour ran from 24 April until 17 December 2003. [1] [2]

Contents

Setlist

Leg 1
Leg 2
  • "Yeh, Yeh, Yeh"
  • "Let's Love"
  • "Here It Comes Again"
  • "Northern Star / If That Were Me"
  • "Be the One"
  • "Never Be the Same Again"
  • "Positively Somewhere"
  • "On the Horizon"
  • "When You're Gone"
  • "Home"
  • "Goin' Down"
  • "Suddenly Monday"
  • "Go!"
  • "I Turn to You"

Personnel

Broadcasts and recordings

On 9 May 2003, the Shepherd's Bush Empire concert was webcast on MelanieC.net, and has since then been uploaded to her YouTube channel. [3] In November 2003, the Avo Session Basel concert was broadcast on 3sat. [4]

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
Leg 1
24 April 2003 Middlesbrough EnglandTown Hall
25 April 2003 Glasgow Scotland Academy
26 April 2003 Liverpool England Royal Court
28 April 2003 Manchester Apollo
29 April 2003 York Barbican
2 May 2003 Bristol Academy
3 May 2003 Oxford Apollo
4 May 2003 Ipswich Regent
6 May 2003 Norwich UEA
7 May 2003 Southampton Southampton Guildhall
8 May 2003London Shepherd's Bush Empire
9 May 2003
11 May 2003 Belfast Northern Ireland Waterfront Hall
12 May 2003 Dublin Ireland Olympia
19 May 2003 Madrid SpainPop Festival [5]
30 May 2003 Milan Italy Festivalbar [6]
Leg 2
23 October 2003 Brussels Belgium Radio Donna Center [7]
1 November 2003 Basel Switzerland Avo Session Basel [8]
9 December 2003 Cologne Germany [9] E-Werk [10]
10 December 2003 Hanover The Neues Theater
12 December 2003 Berlin Columbia Club
13 December 2003 Hamburg Hamburg State Opera
15 December 2003 Neu-Isenburg Hugenottenhalle
16 December 2003 Munich Elserhalle
17 December 2003 Filderstadt Central Theater

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