We Can't Dance Tour

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We Can't Dance Tour
Tour by Genesis
Genesis WeCantDance tour92.jpg
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
Associated album We Can't Dance
Start date8 May 1992
End date17 November 1992
Legs3
No. of shows71
Genesis concert chronology

Following the release of We Can't Dance , Genesis spent 13 weeks performing 55 concerts between May and July 1992, with a 16-date UK tour in October/November.

Contents

Background

The popular worldwide tour sold out arenas and stadiums (where they played on the U.S. leg of the tour). This proved to be Collins's last tour with Genesis until the band reunited in 2007. The album was re-released as a SACD/DVD double disc set (including new 5.1 and Stereo mixes) in October 2007. During the recording of We Can't Dance a 40-minute documentary called No Admittance was produced and broadcast on the Disney Channel. It has since been included in the bonus DVD released in 2007.

The "We Can't Dance" tour featured shows in large arenas and stadiums throughout North America and Europe. It would be the band's final full-length tour until the 2007 Turn It On Again reunion tour. The tour is captured live on the albums The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts , The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs and the concert video The Way We Walk - Live in Concert .

Setlist

This set list is an average for the tour and it contains every song that they played on the tour. Songs that were only played occasionally are noted down.

  1. "Land of Confusion"
  2. "No Son of Mine"
  3. "Driving the Last Spike"
  4. "Old Medley" (also including short excerpts/teasers from "That's All", "Illegal Alien", "Your Own Special Way" or "Misunderstanding", "Follow you, Follow Me", "Stagnation")
    1. "Dance on a Volcano"
    2. "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"
    3. "The Musical Box"
    4. "Firth of Fifth"
    5. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"
  5. "Throwing It All Away" (eliminated after August 2, but was performed twice on the third and final leg of the tour)
  6. "Fading Lights"
  7. "Jesus He Knows Me"
  8. "Carpet Crawlers" (only performed on October 23)
  9. "Dreaming While You Sleep" (only performed from May 8 - June 25 and October 28 - November 15)
  10. "Home by the Sea"/"Second Home by the Sea"
  11. "Hold on My Heart"
  12. "Mama" (dropped after May 28)
  13. "Domino 1&2"
  14. "Drum Duet"
  15. "I Can't Dance"
    Encore
  16. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
  17. "Invisible Touch"
  18. "Turn It On Again"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceBox Office
Leg 1 - North America
7 May 1992 Irving United States Texas Stadium ——
8 May 1992
9 May 1992 Houston Astrodome
16 May 1992 Miami Gardens Joe Robbie Stadium 42,117 / 49,700$1,087,515 [1]
17 May 1992 Tampa Tampa Stadium N/A [2] N/A [2]
19 May 1992 Washington, D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium ——
21 May 1992 Indianapolis Hoosier Dome
22 May 1992 Columbus Ohio Stadium 71,550 / 71,550$1,788,750 [3]
24 May 1992 Pontiac Pontiac Silverdome 36,169 / 45,000$904,225 [3]
25 May 1992 Cleveland Cleveland Stadium 49,184 / 53,000$1,229,600 [3]
26 May 1992 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Stadium 42,790 / 45,000$1,047,668 [3]
28 May 1992 Foxborough Foxboro Stadium 40,982 / 40,982$1,033,290 [4]
29 May 1992 Montreal Canada Olympic Stadium 53,000 / 53,000$1,505,394 [4]
31 May 1992 Philadelphia United States Veterans Stadium 97,774 / 97,774$1,518,080 [5]
1 June 1992
2 June 1992 East Rutherford Giants Stadium 97,311 / 108,000$2,396,000 [6]
3 June 1992
5 June 1992 Syracuse Carrier Dome 63,636 / 76,704 [lower-alpha 1] $1,483,106 [6]
6 June 1992 Toronto Canada SkyDome 55,770 / 55,770$1,466,794 [6]
7 June 1992SyracuseUnited StatesCarrier Dome— [lower-alpha 1] — [lower-alpha 1]
9 June 1992 Madison Camp Randall Stadium 48,015 / 52,000$1,146,600 [7]
10 June 1992 Minneapolis Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome ——
12 June 1992 Edmonton Canada Commonwealth Stadium
14 June 1992 Vancouver BC Place Stadium
15 June 1992 Tacoma United States Tacoma Dome 17,601 / 22,835$484,028 [8]
18 June 1992 Los Angeles Dodger Stadium ——
19 June 1992 Sacramento Hornet Stadium
20 June 1992 [lower-alpha 2] Oakland Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum 41,236 / 45,500$1,175,226 [7]
23 June 1992 Ames Cyclone Stadium 32,090 / 37,500$802,250 [7]
24 June 1992 Tinley Park World Music Theatre 47,692 / 56,000$1,312,022 [8]
25 June 1992
Leg 2 - Europe
28 June 1992 [lower-alpha 3] Werchter Belgium Werchter Festival Grounds——
30 June 1992 Lyon France Stade de Gerland
1 July 1992 Paris Hippodrome de Vincennes
2 July 1992
3 July 1992 Gelsenkirchen Germany Parkstadion
4 July 1992 Hockenheim Hockenheimring
7 July 1992 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi
8 July 1992 Copenhagen Denmark Gentofte Sportspark
10 July 1992 Hanover Germany Niedersachsenstadion
11 July 1992
12 July 1992 Berlin Maifeld
13 July 1992HanoverNiedersachsenstadion
15 July 1992 Mannheim Maimarktgelände
16 July 1992 Vienna Austria Praterstadion
17 July 1992 Munich Germany Olympiastadion
19 July 1992 Nice France Stade Charles-Ehrmann
20 July 1992 Montpellier Espace de Grammont
22 July 1992 Lisbon Portugal Estádio José Alvalade
26 July 1992 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Stadium
27 July 1992 Cologne Germany Müngersdorfer Stadion
28 July 1992 Rotterdam Netherlands Stadion Feijenoord
29 July 1992 Kiel Germany Nordmarksportfeld
31 July 1992 Leeds England Roundhay Park
2 August 1992 [lower-alpha 4] Stevenage Knebworth Park
Leg 3 - United Kingdom
23 October 1992 Southampton England Mayflower Theatre ——
28 October 1992 Newcastle Newcastle City Hall
29 October 1992 Edinburgh Scotland Edinburgh Playhouse
30 October 1992 Manchester England Manchester Apollo
2 November 1992 London Earls Court
3 November 1992
4 November 1992
6 November 1992
7 November 1992
8 November 1992
10 November 1992 Paignton Torbay Leisure Centre
11 November 1992 Newport Wales Newport Civic Centre
13 November 1992 Nottingham England Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
15 November 1992 Brighton Brighton Centre
16 November 1992 [lower-alpha 5] London Royal Albert Hall
17 November 1992 [lower-alpha 6] Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Total826,917 / 910,315 (91%)$20,380,548
($37,595,937 in 2020)

Personnel

Genesis
Additional Musicians

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 The score data is combined from the shows held at Carrier Dome from 5 and 7 June 1992 respectively.
  2. ↑ The 20 June 1992 concert in Oakland was part of Day on the Green.
  3. ↑ The 28 June 1992 concert in Werchter was part of Rock Werchter.
  4. ↑ The 2 August 1992 concert in Stevenage was part of Knebworth Festival.
  5. ↑ The 16 November 1992 concert in London was a charity show in aid of The Prince's Trust [9]
  6. ↑ The 17 November 1992 concert in Wolverhampton was originally scheduled to take place on 26 October 1992.

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  4. 1 2 Billboard Boxscore (PDF). Billboard Magazine. 11 July 1992. p. 14. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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