Face to Face 2010

Face to Face 2010
National tour by Elton John and Billy Joel
LocationU.S., North America
Start date3 February 2010 (2010-02-03)
End date11 March 2010 (2010-03-11)
Legs1
No. of shows12
Elton John tour chronology
  • Face to Face 2010
  • (2010)
Billy Joel tour chronology
  • Face to Face 2010
  • (2010)

In early February 2010, Elton John and Billy Joel set out on another leg of their concert series Face to Face.[1] Most of these shows had been rescheduled from the year before when John had contracted E. coli, forcing the pair to cancel the concerts planned for the fall of 2009. Joel had also fallen unwell at the time of the gigs the previous year.[citation needed]

Despite several outlets reporting four summer concerts in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Boston, Joel denied rumours in the trade press announcing that he cancelled a summer 2010 leg of the tour, claiming that those concerts were never booked in the first place and that he intended to take the year off from performing and music.[2] Joel told Rolling Stone magazine: "We'll probably pick it up again. It's always fun playing with him."

Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrained his setlists.[3][4]

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue Tickets Sold/Available Box Office
North America
3 February 2010 Seattle United States KeyArena 27,605 / 27,605 (100%) $3,779,949
6 February 2010
10 February 2010 Portland Rose Garden 15,440 / 15,440 (100%) $1,879,099
13 February 2010 Oakland Oracle Arena 16,902 / 16,902 (100%) $2,045,887
16 February 2010 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose 15,909 / 15,909 (100%) $1,861,681
19 February 2010 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena 16,057 / 16,057 (100%) $1,729,539
22 February 2010 Denver Pepsi Center 15,470 / 15,470 (100%) $1,790,533
25 February 2010 Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Arena 12,668 / 12,668 (100%) $1,378,170
27 February 2010 Kansas City Sprint Center 17,682 / 17,682 (100%) $2,112,261
3 March 2010 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 14,029 / 14,029 (100%) $1,706,428
9 March 2010 Buffalo HSBC Arena 17,691 / 17,691 (100%) $1,824,428
11 March 2010 Albany Times Union Center 13,874 / 13,874 (100%) $1,623,929
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
7 July 2010 Chicago Wrigley Field Cancelled[5]
14 July 2010 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PNC Park Cancelled[6]
21 July 2010 Boston, Massachusetts Fenway Park Cancelled[6]
24 July 2010 Boston, Massachusetts Fenway Park Cancelled[6]

Setlist

Standard setlist

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

  1. Your Song
  2. Just the Way You Are
  3. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  4. My Life

Elton John & Band

  1. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
  2. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
  3. Levon
  4. Madman Across the Water
  5. Tiny Dancer
  6. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  7. Daniel
  8. Rocket Man
  9. Philadelphia Freedom
  10. I'm Still Standing
  11. Crocodile Rock

Billy Joel & Band

  1. Prelude/Angry Young Man
  2. Movin' Out
  3. Allentown
  4. Zanzibar
  5. Don't Ask Me Why
  6. She's Always a Woman
  7. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
  8. River of Dreams
  9. We Didn't Start the Fire
  10. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
  11. Only the Good Die Young

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

  1. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
  2. Uptown Girl
  3. The Bitch is Back
  4. You May Be Right
  5. Bennie and the Jets
  6. Candle in the Wind
  7. Piano Man

References

  1. ^ Bodoh, David. "Elton John Concerts and Tours". Eltonography.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  2. ^ DeRogatis, Jim. "Billy Joel: "There was never a tour booked this summer!"". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  3. ^ JoyceKane (2012-03-03). "Billy Joel Won't Tour with Elton due to Setlist Constraints". EltonDaily.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  4. ^ Crabbe, Nathan (2012-03-01). "Billy Joel mixes lots of music into his Q&A". Gainesville Sun. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  5. ^ "Summer concert with Billy Joel at Wrigley is cancelled". eltonfan.net. 2010-02-20. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  6. ^ a b c "Billy dismisses rumors he yanked tour with Elton". eltonfan.net. 2010-02-27. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.

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