The Work Tour
| Tour by The Saturdays | |
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| Associated album | Chasing Lights |
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| Start date | 2 June 2009 |
| End date | 7 July 2009 |
| No. of shows | 24 in Europe |
| The Saturdays concert chronology | |
The Work Tour is the debut headlining theatre tour by British girl group The Saturdays. The tour became the bands first headlining tour, but their second time actually touring, after they spent part of 2008 as support act for Girls Aloud on their Tangled Up Tour. The tour opened on 2 June 2009, and lasted for 24 shows, finishing on 7 July 2009.
Background
The tour was announced official by The Saturdays, to further promote their 2008 album Chasing Lights. The tour was named after the groups fifth single Work which release coincided with the tour. Overall, 6 out of the 24 dates sold out, these included, the International Arena in Cardiff, and the Southampton Guildhall. The fastest venue to completely sell out was the Brighton Dome. On tour, the band was joined by two support acts.
Concert Synopsis
The concert began with a video interlude, which saw the group individually walk down the catwalk on the set of the workw video, this was played to an instrumental version of the Wideboys Remix of their single Up. The intro to th bands debut single If This Is Love began, and one by one different coloured lights appeared on each girl in turn. This was followed by Set Me Off. Keep her was next to be performed, before the girls brought chairs on stage to singe the comic relief single Just Can't Get Enough. They then performed Wordshaker, which was then unheard, and was to feature on ther then upcoming album of the same name. A mowtown version of Why Me Why Now followed before the girls had a costume change. An extended intro of fall began, before the girls returned to the stage to perform the song. This was followed by an acoustic cover of Madcon's song Beggin' which came before an acoustic version of Chasing Lights. A video Interlude, was then played showing their video flip highlights, before they returned to stahe stafe to perform a covers medley, which consisted of the songs; Shut Up And Drive by Rihanna, I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry, and So What by Pink. One Shot, another song to appear on their second album, was performed mext. Lies continued the show, which was then followed by the tour's title song, Work. Work had an extended outro, whoch made the show appear to have ended. Next, writing appears on the video screen, asking if the crowd wanted more, before a musical interlude began showing a montage of scenes from the video to Issues. The girls then returned to the stage to perform the song, before ending the show with Up, as they danced with umbrella's
Setlist
The Catwalk (Video Introduction) (Up Wideboys Remix Instrumental played by the band)
- If This Is Love
- Set Me Off
- Keep Her
- Just Can't Get Enough
- Wordshaker (Album track off Wordshaker)
- Why Me, Why Now? (Mowtown Remix)
Costume Change
Video Flips Montage (Video interlude)
- Shut Up And Drive/I Kissed A Girl/ So What
- One Shot (Album track off Wordshaker)
- Lies
- Work
- Encore