Face to Face 2009

Face to Face 2009
Continental tour by Elton John and Billy Joel
Location	North America
Start date	2 March 2009
End date	1 August 2009
Legs	3
No. of shows	27
Elton John tour chronology
Billy Joel tour chronology

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]}

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
Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
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	Anaheim		Honda Center	33,548 / 33,548	$3,576,465
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	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	37,266 / 37,266	$6,236,533
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 2009	Washington, 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 2009	Chicago		Wrigley Field	^[a]	^[a]
30 July 2009	Philadelphia		Citizens Bank Park	89,690 / 89,690	$11,853,455
1 August 2009	Philadelphia		Citizens Bank Park	89,690 / 89,690	$11,853,455
Total				665,371 / 665,371 (100%)	$83,818,343

Cancellations and rescheduled shows


4 November 2009	Seattle, Washington	KeyArena	Rescheduled to 3 February 2010 ^[4]
7 November 2009	Seattle, Washington	KeyArena	Rescheduled to 6 February 2010 ^[5]
10 November 2009	Portland, Oregon	Rose Garden	Rescheduled to 10 February 2010 ^[6]
14 November 2009	Oakland, California	Oracle Arena	Rescheduled to 13 February 2010 ^[7]^[8]
17 November 2009	San Jose, California	HP Pavilion	Rescheduled to 16 February 2010 ^[9]^[10]
20 November 2009	Salt Lake City, Utah	EnergySolutions Center	Rescheduled to 19 February 2010 ^[11]
22 November 2009	Denver, Colorado	Pepsi Center	Rescheduled to 22 February 2010 ^[12]
25 November 2009	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	Ford Center	Rescheduled to 25 February 2010 ^[13]
28 November 2009	Little Rock, Arkansas	Verizon Center	Cancelled ^[14]
1 December 2009	Kansas City, Missouri	Sprint Center	Rescheduled to 27 February 2010 ^[15]
4 December 2009	Buffalo, New York	HSBC Arena	Rescheduled to 9 March 2010 ^[16]
7 December 2009	Albany, New York	Times Union Center	Rescheduled to 11 March 2010 ^[17]

Setlist

Standard setlist

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

Your Song
Just the Way You Are
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
My Life

Elton John & Band

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
Levon
Madman Across the Water
Tiny Dancer
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Daniel
Rocket Man
Philadelphia Freedom
I'm Still Standing
Crocodile Rock

Billy Joel & Band

Prelude/Angry Young Man
Movin' Out
Allentown
Zanzibar
Don't Ask Me Why
She's Always a Woman
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
River of Dreams
We Didn't Start the Fire
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
Only the Good Die Young

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
Uptown Girl
The Bitch is Back
You May Be Right
Bennie and the Jets
Candle in the Wind
Piano Man

Notes

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

References

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