Pink Fun House Tour 2009 ... Setlists, Reviews, Tour Dates, Merchandise and More
The shows in Australia have been receiving fantastic reviews with Pink playing multiple concerts in every major center across the continent. The stage show is cutting edge and extremely physically demanding so North American and European audiences have much to look forward to as Pink continues this impressive and extensive world tour.
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Contents at a Glance
- Pink Tour Dates 2009
- Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Trent FM Arena Nottingham, UK Nov 3, 2009
- Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Metro Radio Arena Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Nov 2, 2009
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Pink Funhouse Tour 2009 ... Tour Dates
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Pink Tour Dates 2009 includes stops in the U.K., Europe and Australia ... many dates are sold out but you will find tickets available by clicking on your location below:
Europe & UK Tour Dates 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Metro Radio Arena
Tuesday, 3 November 2009 Start: 18.30 Nottingham, United Kingdom Arena Nottingham
Friday, 20 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle Frankfurt
Sunday, 22 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Munich, Germany Olympiahalle Munich
Monday, 23 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Freiburg, Germany Rothaus Arena
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Stuttgart, Germany Schleyerhalle
Thursday, 26 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Erfurt, Germany Messehalle Erfurt
Saturday, 28 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Düsseldorf, Germany ISS Dome
Monday, 30 November 2009 Start: 20.00 Oberhausen, Germany König Pilsener Arena
Wednesday, 2 December 2009 Start: 20.00 Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion Zurich
Thursday, 3 December 2009 Start: 20.00 Geneva, Switzerland Arena Geneva
Saturday, 5 December 2009 Start: 20.00 Rotterdam, Netherlands Ahoy
Tuesday, 8 December 2009 Start: 18.30 London, United Kingdom O2 Arena
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Trent FM Arena Nottingham, UK Nov 3, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Nottingham Evening News
by Sarah Firth
Review: Pink, Trent FM Arena
THE circus met Moulin Rouge at the Trent FM Arena last night when Pink's Funhouse tour rolled into town.
With acrobats, pillow fights, giant clowns, slides and a star keen to clamber over it all, it was a spectacular sell-out show.
Material from her chart-topping album - including opener Bad Influence - went down well, but older hits Just Like A Pill and Don't Let Me Get Me got the crowd going.
The rock chick of pop worked her wardrobe throughout - from feather skirts and burlesque, to biker leathers and barely-there ensembles, to a Freddie Mercury yellow jacket for a Bohemian Rhapsody cover.
But when Pink stepped out of the theatrics and slung on a vest and jeans for a mid-show acoustic set, including a mellow version of Trouble and a heartfelt Mr President, the arena was transformed into an intimate venue.
Happy to chat to a crowd which threw stuffed toys, jewellery and bras, the 30-year-old - who even pointed out a fainted fan - was clearly having a whale of a time.
Of the Funhouse tracks it was the anthemic So What and trapeze-accompanied Sober that stood out.
Family Portrait showed off the strength in her voice, while a version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy and a risqué yet bizarre Divinyls cover weren't necessary.
If her performance was eye-catching, her aerial acrobatics at the end of Get The Party Started were show-stopping.
The energetic star sang between dizzying spins before taking to the air again for surprisingly serene, and water soaked, encore Glitter In The Air. Fabulous.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Metro Radio Arena Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Nov 2, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Evening Chronicle
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Pink wows fans with Metro Radio Arena gig
WITH a tour called Funhouse you expecting some-thing crazy, quirky and original.
Shown on the screen hiding the stage was a video of Pink getting ready for the show, singing to Highway to Hell, and this set the tone for the whole gig.
Pink, herself, has admitted she isn't one of those singers who only do their latest songs, everything she does is geared toward the audience.
With crowd-pleasers like Just Like A Pill, Don't Let Me Get Me, Stupid Girls and Funhouse, you could hear the audience singing along - and at one point she even had to tell them to wait for her!
She was singing live and part of the show was almost acoustic as she sat down with minimal backing and sang slower songs like Dear Mr President and really showed she could sing, with a piano accompanied version of Family Portrait.
She also knew how to work the crowd, with the stage extending into the audience. She spent a lot of time there, making her more accessible.
She hugged audience members because "they had a poster saying I love your dog, hug me, and I love my dog, so I did", asking for requests then saying, "I'm not singing that" and accepting presents.
Pink pretty much does what she wants, singing versions of I Touch Myself, taking on Bohemian Rhapsody and even Led Zeppelin.
What sets this show apart is she really looks like she's having fun. If things go wrong, such a malfunctioning prop or a dodgy microphone, it's "So what!".
She doesn't take herself seriously, making fun of her "terrible dancing" and past wardrobe disasters.
Being a solo artist means she needs a strong team of dancers, musicians and back-up singers to take over while she quick-changes and she never fails to acknowledge the hard work they're doing.
The show ends, ironically, with Get This Party Started or at least it seems as it does - until the countdown when she sings a slow ballad while performing an aerial show above the crowd.
Ultimately Funhouse is what it is - unexpected, original and, most of all, fun.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews NIA Birmingham Birmingham, UK Oct 30, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Sunday Mercury
by Tony Larner
Rock star Pink asked to show ID at Birmingham gig
ROCK chick Pink was stunned when security guards at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena refused her access to her own dressing room - because they did not recognise her.
The world famous US singer wrote on her internet Twitter page that she was asked to prove who she was before being let in backstage at the venue.
The sexy solo artist was preparing for the first of two sell-out gigs at the NIA on Friday when the blunder happened.
She wrote on the social networking site: "The security guy just carded me for my laminate to get into my dressing room.
"Now THAT'S some funny s***."
The brief "tweet" message was screened just hours before she was set to appear on stage in front of thousands of fans.
Combined ticket sales for her UK-wide tour have topped 1.5 million and she proved a success with a visit to the same venue earlier this year.
Yet despite her hectic lifestyle and sell-out tour, Pink still found time to let the world know about her embarrassing encounter.
The NEC Group refused to comment because the singer had not made a complaint.
But as she prepared to hit the stage, the American star admitted in other Twitter posts that she was excited about Halloween.
"Happy Halloween kiddies!
"I'm so excited 4 Halloween and 2 see everybody's costumes... and candy. Lots of it.
''I carved a pumpkin and toasted the seeds. Need a scarecrow."
Due to overwhelming demand, Pink added the extra two Birmingham dates to her Funhouse Tour and was greeted by a bumper crowd.
The hard-partying star, who shot to fame in 2000 with her first hit There You Go, is known for her high-energy shows.
Fans were treated to an action-packed event on Friday with powerful performances of Top 10 hits including the emotionally-charged Who Knew and the upbeat track, Get The Party Started.
The star also performed songs from her latest multi-platinum album, Funhouse, including the crowd-favourite, Please Don't Leave Me.
Normal procedure during celebrity events at the NIA sees the production crew hire their own security staff to look after any backstage issues.
However, it is unclear whether the guards who asked Pink for her identification were NIA workers or outside employees.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Sheffield Arena Sheffield UK Oct 28, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: The Star
by Nik Brear
Pink in the red at Sheffield Arena
PINK'S Funhouse certainly lived up to its name last night as Sheffield Arena was turned into a one-night-only circus with everyone's favourite outrageous blonde as the ringmaster.
The lights dimmed, the stage floor parted and the pint-sized singer rose out of the smoke to deafening applause. Pink was in the building.
The show kicked off with the beat-driven Bad Influence which die-hard fans will recognise from the singer's new album and the stage came alive with carnival characters.
The 29-year-old proved she's still got what it takes then by stripping down to red sparkly leggings and a tiny top that showed off her legendary killer abs. She launched into a back-to-back collection of classics, including Just Like A Pill, Who Knew and Don't Let Me Get Me - all to the delight of the Sheffield crowd.
Her rendition of I Touch Myself was a little random as the singer writhed around on a couch full of holes wearing just a lacy bra and cropped leggings. Hands popped out of the holes to stroke her suggestively as she sang but if the fans thought it was weird, they never showed it.
She appeared again in low slung jeans, a white vest and bare feet to sing Family Portrait one-on-one with the piano in what was one of many highlights of the evening.
One thing from this show is perfectly clear. This lady can sing.
Every song was live, including an impressive acoustic set, and whether she was belting out the big notes or softly singing an emotional ballad, the crowd was left breathless.
"I call that one a Christmas song," she said of Family Portrait afterwards.
"I think because it reminds me of the holidays%u2026is that a bit dark?" she added with a cackle.
She also complained to the Sheffield crowd about the weather we've been having in Britain recently before adding: "But the sun came out today, so I no longer wanna kill myself!"
She then threw on a leather jacket and announced that the next song 'made her dance like an idiot' and invited Sheffield to join her in looking like morons before launching into Leave Me Alone.
No Pink-favourites were overlooked in the show and her rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was another impressive highlight as were the incredible acrobatics going on overhead during Sober.
Pink finished the night off in a white cut out leotard that was more barely than there. Her dancers placed her in safety harnesses and sent her spinning and diving over the heads of the enraptured audience. Finally she was lowered into a pool of water and emerged dripping from head to toe before going into a final spin and showering the crowds below.
Pink's Funhouse was the only place to be in Sheffield last night. Let's hope it's not too long before the circus is back in town%u2026
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool, UK Oct 27, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Liverpool Echo
by Dawn Collinson
Pink makes second appearance at the ECHO arena Liverpool
PINK made her second appearance at Liverpool's ECHO arena this year when she gave fans another chance to catch her Funhouse tour.
She kicked off the concert slightly later than planned with her version of AC/DC's Highway to Hell, closely followed by her own hits.
The singer's live shows have gone from strength to strength.
Her European tour next spring sold-out immediately, while her Australian tour next summer has broken records.
PROOF positive that you really can never have too much of a good thing came in emphatic style last night as the Pink circus rolled into town for the second time in six months.
Like fellow superstar Beyonce who returns next month, Pink clearly can't get enough of a Liverpool audience who evidently reciprocated her passion.
Her Funhouse tour is more than just a musical greatest hits outing, it's a full-on full-throttle theatrical spectacle.
And Pink is every inch the leading lady - ringmaster (or should that be ringmistress? The snarling muscular androgyny makes it teasingly hard to tell) of her own lavish creation.
She hurtled down slides, performed breathtaking acrobatics which are a testimony to her evident super-fitness and wore a dazzling array of barely there costumes.
Never mind the audience, who were in raptures from the opening Highway to Hell and her own Bad Influence, this was an artist having a genuine blast.
But, of course, while the rest is impressive window-dressing, it was really the singing that the largely female crowd had come to see and their heroine didn't disappoint. This was far from a fur coat and no knickers charade.
Hit after hit came thick and fast. Just Like A Pill had the audience jumping, along with Who Knew and a cheeky Don't Let Me Get Me in which she allowed herself a miming dig at (damn) Britney Spears.
A change of pace came with a slow writhing cover of The Divinyls I Touch Myself which veered between sensual and outright filthy, before the tongue-in- cheek lament to her now-mended marriage Please Don't Leave Me.
With the anthemic Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) she urged the crowd to show her the worst dancing ever and then promptly broke into a pillow fight (remember the MTV awards last November?) for So What.
But there's far more to Pink than just rock chick, as she showed with beautiful almost fragile acoustic versions of Family Portrait and the heartaching I Don't Believe You which will be the sixth single from the Funhouse album.
As acrobats swung from a trapeze high above the crowd, she switched to Sober, before a thunderous version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody complete with Freddie yellow tailcoat.
Stupid girl? No. Just crazy, sexy and so, so cool.
9/10 Hot Pink
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews SECC Glasgow, Scotland Oct 21, 2009
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Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews SECC Glasgow, Scotland Oct 20, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
Pink Merchandise 2009
Review: Daily Record
by Bev Lyons
Live review: Pink @ Glasgow SECC
PINK eventually got the party started at Glasgow's SECC last night - after keeping her crowd waiting for more than 40 minutes.
But she didn't disappoint as she entertained in true Pink style.
She emerged from below the stage before being hoisted above dressed in a ringmaster-type jacket and feathered train teamed with red sequined leggings.
She then gyrated about a huge catwalk out from the stage before bursting into hit Just Like A Pill.
The high-energy show went on with a string of back-to-back hits from her Funhouse album.
During Sober two acrobats performed on a swing and, in keeping with the circus theme, a massive inflatable clown accompanied her as she sang Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Odyssey Arena Belfast, Northern Ireland Oct 17, 2009
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Belfast Telegraph
by Kerry McKittrick
Pop princess Pink's exuberance is just the thing for adoring fans
Six months after her last visit, Pink exploded back onstage at Belfast's Odyssey Arena on Saturday night.
The Funhouse tour has been around the world and back again, losing none of its energy and exuberance.
In spite of her gruelling schedule, Pink seemed as pleased to be there as every single person in the audience. Every song was performed with as much energy as if it were the opening night of the tour.
Of course all of the favourite songs were there - Hazard, U + Ur Hand, Stupid Girls and Who Knew. She performed hit Dear Mr President in a stunning acoustic set, accompanied by a guitar and two backing singers.
The stage show was certainly a sight to behold with both the set and costumes out of this world. It's not often such a major star literally bungees her way off stage.
The evening was rounded off nicely by a couple of covers. Naturally both Bohemian Rhapsody and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy had the audience on their feet. If you aren't a Pink fan before you go, you soon will be.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews O2 Arena Dublin, Ireland Oct 14, 2009
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Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
Pink Merchandise 2009
Review: Irish Independent
by Aidan Coughlan
Review: Pink
The O2
HOW easy it would have seemed to pour scorn on Pink. A pop singer with a 'hard edge', on many levels she's seen as just another Avril Lavigne: a mainstream, manufactured artist who parades about the place as the exact opposite of that, offering the more disgruntled kids a place to spend their money.
Be that as it may, though, she certainly shoved humble pie down the throats of each detractor when she played the O2 last April. The question now is, can this relentlessly intense show retain its magic after a gruelling six months on the road.
Based upon a 19th century carnival motif, with leanings towards spooky, 'evil clown' imagery, the colourful stage is decked out with screens, slides, balconies and stairways. Intricate and impressive to look at, but even more so once the dancers make their entrances.
The space and the props are used so incredibly well, and the clever choreography (which comes to include trapeze artistry as the night unfolds) is so thematically coherent, that not a single element could be branded as gimmickry. Are you watching, Miss Spears?
Pink, for her part, has the sort of voice which suffers under the polished, compressed audio recordings that represent her across the world. In reality, her dynamics and her energy are boundless and striking.
A piano-accompanied version of 'Family Portrait', preceded by a Chopin-esque piano solo by the band's musical director, is electrifying and theatrical, without being melodramatic. Meanwhile 'So What' and 'Just Like A Pill' send energy levels flying, and 'Funhouse' (backed by two giant, inflatable sinister-looking jesters) rounds off the circus theme to perfection.
The critics have been answered; Pink has proven herself to be a performer of the highest calibre. This is a most brilliant blending of pop entertainment and performance arts -- and while she may sing in 'Don't Let Me Get Me' that she's "tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears", this girl must be well aware that she'll come out on top every time.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Madison Square Garden in New York, NY Oct 5, 2009
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Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: MTV
by Lauren Joskowitz
Pink Brings Her Sexy Funhouse Spectacle To Madison Square Garden
New York show features glitter, trapeze acts, pillow fights and some old-fashioned Bush-bashing.
Pink soared through the air and rocked out at Madison Square Garden Monday night, filling the huge venue with the sights and sounds of her flashy Funhouse show.
After opening act the Ting Tings roused the audience with their peppy hits, Pink's set began with a video that showed her watching television. Fed up with nothing good to watch, Pink got up from the couch and made her way outside (after putting some guy's hand in a glass of water and taking a swig of a beer). She poured a can of gas behind her as she walked. With ACDC's "Highway to Hell" playing in the background, Pink hopped onto a motorcycle, lit a cigarette, took a few puffs and threw it behind her to light the road on fire. Finally, she rose from the ground onto the stage in a cloud of smoke. The backdrop fell to the floor and the circus, along with slides and outlandish dancers, had begun.
Pink rose from the ground holding on to a bungee cord and wearing an eccentric-orange, feathery outfit. The show began with "Just Like a Pill." At the end of the song, Pink tore off her orange ensemble and was dressed in red pants and a matching cheetah print top. She continued with "Who Knew" and "Don't Let Me Get Me," as she poked fun at her body and features when singing, "All you have to change is everything you are."
While her guitarist soloed, Pink changed her outfit yet again before reappearing on stage in a pair of black, lacey pants and a top that displayed her chiseled abs. While she lay on a red couch and sang her cover of the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself," hands reached up through holes in the couch to caress her.
During "U + Ur Hand," Pink asked, "How many of you dance like an idiot?" Almost everyone, including Pink, raised their hands. She then insisted that everyone dance for the duration of the song because it made her want to dance like an idiot.
Female dancers in their underwear staged a girl fight on a bed as Pink sang "So What" and pushed around a male dancer. The girls attacked and beat him up with pillows; feathers flew everywhere. They then proceeded to take his clothes off. The song ended with everyone on the bed and Pink straddling the male dancer.
Pink arrived onstage for "Family Portrait" wearing a white tank and jeans (and no shoes), then sang next to a pianist and violinist. The performance was also being displayed in black and white on a video screen, giving it a classic, solemn feel.
Pink took a break and talked to the audience for a while, reminiscing about her first concert at MSG. She announced that her mom was at the show and said, "See, Mom, I told you I wouldn't end up in jail." She introduced the band behind her and informed the audience that she needed them to "be sad" while she sang the next song, "I Don't Believe You."
Pink warned the crowd that the next song was booed in two prior shows: one in Virginia and one in Anaheim, California. The song was "Dear Mr. President," and as she sang, a slideshow depicted soldiers, poverty, mothers and fathers, broken families, war and former President George W. Bush. The mood was lifted with the song "Trouble." The band jammed out for the acoustic song, and even though Pink forgot a few words, she belted the next verse and all was forgiven.
Pink began to wrap up the concert with Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," finishing with her new hit, "Funhouse." The stage was flooded with fun-house mirrors, glitter, inflatable clowns and dancers doing flips and twirling in the air on ribbons.
Everyone believed the show was over, until the stage lit up with a countdown. Pink showed up for her encore, performing "Get This Party Started" and "Glitter in the Air," which featured three girls covered in glitter and dancing in the air while being lifted by what appeared to be a blanket. Midway through the song, Pink was lifted too and performed her own routine of flips and spins. Near the end of the song, Pink was lowered back below the stage, but was raised again to finish her the show in a white, skintight leotard.
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Setlist
Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Sam Adams
Pink at the Wachovia: A pop-rock spectacle
Alecia Moore, better known as Pink (or P!nk!), has always portrayed herself as a troubled soul, a damaged bad girl prone to violent mood swings. But she beamed almost all the way through her show at the Wachovia Center last night, unable to suppress a grin even when singing about dark times.
The sold-out crowd did its best to keep the Doylestown native's spirits up, nearly drowning out her vocals on "Just Like a Pill," one of many songs that found her breaking free from an unhealthy relationship. Through the evening, she whipsawed between vulnerability and independence, never more than in "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)": "Go away, come back. Go away, come back. Why can't I just have it both ways?"
Taking its cue from the title of her latest album, Funhouse, the two-hour show offered plenty of spectacle, beginning as Moore made her entrance aboard a twirling trapeze. Her backup dancers doubled as aerialists, twisting in midair and adding Barnum-esque showmanship to an already flashy production.
A major upgrade from her last local show, at the Electric Factory in 2006, it served an expansive recapitulation of her career so far. The milestone was underlined by the three generations of family members in attendance, including her mother, in a red cape reading, "I'm the mom."
"I waited 30 years for this," said Moore, who, sure enough, turned 30 a few weeks back.
Although she started her career singing irrepressible pop anthems like "Get the Party Started," once Moore had the clout to take charge she moved away from synthesizers and programmed beats toward blaring guitars and emotionally charged lyrics. In "Don't Let Me Get Me," taken from her emancipatory second album, M!ssundaztood, she reiterated her frustration with being "compared to damn Britney Spears" - underlining it by thumping her microphone to show that there would be no lip-synching involved. Rejecting the label of "pop star," she proclaimed in "So What," "I'm still a rock star. I've got my rock moves, and I don't need you."
In truth, the show was equal parts pop and rock, mixing choreographed theater with off-the-cuff spontaneity. Starting off the show in a bustier, spiked heels and a feathery skirt with detachable train, Moore quick-changed into a succession of typically rococo Bob Mackie outfits that took every opportunity to show off her chiseled physique. But midway through, she swapped her yellow leather waistcoat for jeans and white tank top and stripped her band down to acoustic instruments as well.
Drawing evenly from her five albums, Moore also chose a succession of covers to demonstrate her multiple personalities: the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself," Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and, of course, Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." But by and large the many sides of Pink balanced each other out, forming a triumphant if still fractured whole.
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Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Boston Globe
by Sarah Rodman
Self-indulging, Pink is at top of her form
During her raucous and spectacle-laden, carnival-themed performance last night at the TD Garden, Pink danced in front of a series of funhouse mirrors. While the reflections may have made the pixie-cute, steel-toed tough pop star look drawn out or squeezed small, that was certainly never the reality of the nearly two-hour performance.
Acrobats twirled, dancers writhed, huge clown balloons bobbled, guitarists wailed, glitter and feathers flew, and there was even a pillow fight. But none of the bells and whistles distorted Pink's essence, the beating heart that is her emotion-wracked voice, which is exactly what made the whole thing work.
Plenty of eye-popping shows come through arenas that are a wonder to behold but underwhelm with lockstep scripts. Pink's "Funhouse'' performance was certainly highly choreographed, from actual synchronized dance routines to the Cirque de Soleil-esque aerial acrobatics, but you never felt that she herself was bound.
Whether that meant goofing on herself between songs, indulging her whims for "Why Not?'' covers like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody'' or eagerly inviting darkness into the evening with the ravaged-heart drama of "I Don't Believe You,'' Pink was never less than human. (Except maybe in her impossible agility navigating her big stage and runway in serious high heels.)
She also sounded equally terrific in all the flavors she favors. She belted out the churning pop angst of "Who Knew'' as tenderly as she snarled through the raspberry-blowing dance rockers "U + Ur Hand'' and "So What'' and murmured her way through a narcotized, almost trip-hop take on the Divinyls "I Touch Myself.''
The sold-out crowd of 13,614 happily went along for the ride, headbanging to Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'' one minute and lustily singing along to the grave-yet-sweet pop candy of "Sober''
The Tings Tings brand of kicky Brit-pop was a complementary confection. The guitar and drums duo - with the help of triggers, loops, and other aids - made a happy racket on tunes like "Shut Up and Let Me Go'' and "That's Not My Name'' that got the whole crowd stomping.
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Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
Bad Influence
Just Like A Pill
Who Knew
Don't Let Me Get Me
I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)
Please Don't Leave Me
U + Ur Hand
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
So What
Family Portrait
I Don't Believe You
Dear Mr. President
Trouble
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Funhouse
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Get The Party Started
Encore:
Glitter In The Air
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Review: Toronto Sun
by Jane Stevenson
Pink's Funhouse rolls into town
Britney's latest tour may be a Circus, but Pink's Funhouse trek is way more inspired.
The 30-year-old singer called Pink (real name: Alecia Moore) pulled into the Air Canada Centre last night in support of her fifth studio album, Funhouse, and the show was fun, fun, fun and then some.
Appearing from beneath a trap door on her catwalk, and suspended in the air by a cable and sporting a long orange feathered train that matched a red and black outfit of sequins and spandex, Pink made a big carnival-like entrance and kept the momentum breathlessly going from there for the next hour-and-50-minutes.
Wearing numerous skimpy costumes and performing on an amusement park-inspired set with an eight-piece band and five dancers, there really was no stopping her infectious energy powered by that thrilling, soulful voice.
She's one big, blonde, bold, brash ball of fun and athleticism.
I can't remember the last time I saw someone skip down their catwalk over and over again.
"We are here, we are so happy, are you readying to tear it up?" said Pink, after performing such older standouts as Just Like A Pill and Who Knew, which both prompted major sing-alongs from the girl-centric crowd.
One of the few missteps was Pink's slowed down version of The Divinyls' I Touch Myself, which featured her in a black lingerie-inspired outfit and writhing around on a red couch. It was sexy but too reminiscent of Madonna's Like A Virgin schtick of years gone by.
Otherwise, Pink kicked the night off right with a cover of AC/DC's Highway To Hell accompanied by a video of her riding a motorcycle, lighting a cigarette and setting her house on fire.
Unlike the limp showing by Britney Spears during her Circus trek, Pink was an athletic and enthusiastic performer as she clamoured around her stage, getting in the face of her musicians and the audience as she crawled around the catwalk or dropped to her knees.
She also knew how to make fun of herself.
"How many good dancers do we have tonight? How many terrible dancers? I want to see the worst dancing," said Pink before she launched into Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) and busted out a few nerdy moves of her own.
There was even a pillow fight staged by her four female dancers and one male dancer, all dressed in white underwear, on a leopard print, heart-shaped bed during another song highlight, So What.
Does this girl have male fantasies down or what?
Still, Pink got serious during a touching piano-and-violin version of Family Portrait and even strapped on acoustic guitar for I Don't Believe You, which saw four of her band members gather around her at the front of the stage.
Even more beautiful sounding was the harmony-heavy Dear Mr. President, a critical open letter to ex-U.S. president George Bush, which saw Pink hook up with her two backup singers, guitar player and drummer at the front of her catwalk or "our fake little campfire," as she called it.
"I really, really like this town and I don't like a lot of places,' said Pink of Toronto, the only Canadian stop on her Funhouse tour.
Next up was an acoustic version of Trouble and an impressive cover of Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You before she made yet another costume change for the dramatic Sober featuring a two-person aerial trapeze act.
During the MTV Video Music Awards just over two weeks ago, Pink actually performed the girl part but a shoulder injury has prevented her from doing that more recently in concert although she did end the show with the ballad, Glitter In The Air, performing some more gentle aerial work and getting dunked in water.
She's still got guts, along with the glory.
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
Pink Merchandise 2009
Review: Washington Post
by Chris Klimek
Pink: Live Last Night
Never break up with Pink! She'll make an album about it, it'll go platinum, and pretty soon she'll be in the middle of 10,000 people at the Patriot Center, just like she was for two lusty hours Monday night, telling God and everyone how much she doesn't miss you.
The 30-year-old starlet reportedly reconciled with her husband this year, but that hasn't stopped her from riding the success of her heartbreak album -- last year's "Funhouse" -- into arenas. As a meditation on love eroding, the album isn't exactly "Blood on the Tracks." But as fuel for a high-energy, high-ambition spectacle -- part Cirque de Soleil, part Moulin Rouge, and part stool-settin' guitar pull -- it more than works.
In concert at least, Pink, aka Alecia Moore, is a more exciting pop mistress than Beyonce -- her only worthy rival -- for the same reason Daniel Craig is a more exciting 007 than Pierce Brosnan: She sweats. She swears. And the stunts seem more real. The spectacular trapeze-suspended derring-do offers a rush of physical jeopardy to match the emotional risks its star is taking every night. Yes, it's really her doing the singing, and the risk-taking.
If you caught Pink's performance at the MTV Video Music Awards two weeks ago, you know she usually does her own aerial work, too. She was nursing an injured shoulder Monday, so while her vocals soared on "Sober," her feet remained Earthbound. (One of her dancers stood in on the trapeze.)
The show didn't upstage the music. "Bohemian Rhasody" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" both fit the evening's Alice in Wonderland vibe, even if the latter has been covered 947 times already. Led Zeppelin's "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" smoked, though it seemed to leave Pink Nation more dazed and confused than enthralled.
But everyone agreed on her cover of the DiVinyls' "I Touch Myself." Reclining in lingerie on a scarlet daybed to exhale the 1991 hit, the star ran her hands over her body. Then the couch sprouted additional hands to assist. It was as freaky as the show got, a perfect blend of sex and surrealism. Though Pink's costumes got even skimpier as the night progressed, the goal seemed less to titillate than to show off of her battle-ready physique.
Despite the evening's one false note, the expired polemic "Dear Mr. President," (its accompanying video made clear it's about POTUS 43, not the new guy) we'll go ahead and say it: Mission accomplished.
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1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: Dallas Morning News
by Ann Pinson
Pink's Funhouse vs. Britney's Circus
Since I got a chance to see both Britney Spears (on the 18th) and Pink (Wednesday night), thought I'd do a quick comparison of Pink's Funhouse and Britney Spears' Circus tours:
Most literal interpretation of the theme: Britney's tour had a lot of circus to it, including a long stretch that was just performers from the Big Apple Circus jumping on trampolines, hula hooping, clowning, etc. And she danced in a cage, gyrated on a pole attached to the back of a bike and bonked her backup dancers on their heads with a giant, pink-headed mallet. Pink's Funhouse was more of a backdrop for her performance, though there were plenty of related elements -- aerial acrobatics (which the super-tough performer took part in during the final song, in spite of recently having separated her shoulder), giant inflatable clowns, slides and mirrors. Britney wins this round, but whether that's a good thing or not is open for interpretation.
Best cover: Britney just did one, but she made it count. Her version of Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" was the least slick, most emotionally true moment of the show. You could tell Pink loved all the songs she covered -- Divinyls' "I Touch Myself" (more on that one later), Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." But "Bohemian Rhapsody" topped the rest as a showcase for that powerhouse of a voice. You really have to be able to sing to pull that one off. Pink wins here.
Most surreal moment: Britney makes her male backup dancers do pushups after they do a group pelvic thrust around her (and they're all wearing pink underwear). Pink sings a sloooow version of "I Touch Myself" on a chaise longue as roving hands poke out of the cushions to caress her, much to the delight of a guy sitting near me. Pink gets the, er, climactic victory here.
Opening videos: Pink wakes up from a nap, goes on a rampage through a closet, burns down a house, rides a motorcycle (while her version of "Highway to Hell" plays in the background), and waltzes with a mime. In Britney's video, Perez Hilton plays a demented Queen Elizabeth type, and Brit shoots him in the crotch with an arrow. Britney's the clear leader here, since her motivation is so obvious (who doesn't want to harm Perez Hilton?).
Stage banter: Britney comes up short here, without much more than a "Hey, Dallas." Pink gave a shout-out to the members of the military who were on hand, introduced her bandmates (some of them twice), heaped deserved praise on her guitarist, talked about the first-ever show she played as combat-boot-and-kilt-wearing 13-year-old, and generally endeared herself to the locals.
Opening acts: Jordin Sparks opened for Britney, the Ting Tings opened for Pink. They're very different, but "Battlefield" is just as catchy as "That's Not My Name." Let's call this one a draw.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, AZ Sep 20, 2009
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1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: AZ Central
by Larry Rodgers
Pink's 'Funhouse' rocks Glendale
In her kiss-off to her once-estranged husband via the mega-hit "So What," pop-rocker Pink sings, "I'm still a rock star; I got my rock moves."
The magnetic singer threw down those moves in a big way Sunday, Sept. 20, in Glendale, leaving no doubt that she has moved into the top tier of touring rock acts.
Pink's Funhouse tour lived up to its name, which promotes her latest album, filling Jobing.com Arena with a colorful, circus-themed stage set populated by acrobats, jesters, dancers and a solid band.
But despite all the bells and whistles, the clear star of the proceedings was Pink (real name: Alecia Moore).
The Pennsylvania-born singer has stepped her game up for her first global headlining tour, and she took full advantage of the opportunity with a 110-minute set showcasing her emotion-packed music, as well as her impressive physique.
"I waited 30 years for this tour," Pink told the near-sellout crowd as she recounted playing for a crowd of "about eight people" in her first band at age 13.
She made a grand entrance, rising through trap doors at the end of a runway that stretched far into the audience and being lifted about 20 feet over the stage as she sang "Bad Influence." Pink was wearing the first of several costumes she would don, a circus master's outfit with long tails made of feathers.
One of her dancers stripped off most of that outfit to leave Pink in a pink leotard and flashy shawl for her hit "Just Like a Pill." Sporting short, blonde hair, multiple tattoos and a body that no doubt requires major gym time, Pink commanded attention, even in the set's quieter moments.
She kept the momentum going early on with brisk versions of two rockers, "Who Knew" and "Don't Let Me Get Me."
Although she's reunited with her husband, motocross star Carey Hart, Pink provided several in-your-face performances, including the funky, driving "U + Ur Hand," "Trouble" and "I Don't Believe You." Her female dancers assaulted a lone guy with pillows on a large, round bed and peeled off his clothes down to his underwear during the raucous "So What," with feathers flying everywhere.
Pink immediately dialed things down after the pillow fight to perform a passionate take on "Family Portrait," accompanied by piano and violin. In blue jeans, white sleeveless top and bare feet, Pink sang about a fractured family that desperately needed to come back together.
She joked that the audience should "channel your inner dark clown," for "I Don't Believe You," part of an acoustic set that also included her anti-George W. Bush song, "Dear Mr. President." The political rant was powerful stuff when Bush was in office, but it seemed somewhat out of place as the nation moves ahead under a new president.
The acoustic break culminated with a creative take on Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," which began with Pink sitting on a stool, facing guitarist Justin Derrico, with her hand on his leg as she sang the bittersweet lyrics inches from his face. She later rose as the rest of the band kicked in on the song, allowing Derrico to play a raging lead.
Other covers included Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," one of the biggest productions of the night, with Pink working the two levels of the stage in a nautical captain's hat, yellow coat and a pink heart glued strategically over one bare breast.
Pink told the crowd that she had separated her shoulder last week ("If you guys yell loud, I can't feel the pain," she said) and it limited the acrobatics she has performed on the tour. She was unable to duplicate the trapeze routine that brought down the house a week earlier at the MTV Video Music Awards. Instead, two acrobats swung on the trapeze as Pink looked up from the stage and sang "Sober."
Pink did end up suspended above the stage for her single encore song, "Glitter In the Air." She descended through the trap door that she had used to start the show, then rose back up after being dipped into water. It was a dramatic ending to a well-staged performance.
The Ting Tings, a British duo featuring guitarist-singer Katie White and drummer-singer Jules De Martino, warmed the crowd up with a well-received set.
White kept the energy high as she danced and hopped her way around the stage, while De Martino emerged from behind his drums to show off impressive keyboard and sampling skills.
The audience danced and sang along to two of the duo's best-known songs, "Shut Up and Let Me Go" and "That's Not My Name."
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1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: L.A. Times
by Mikael Wood
Live review: Pink at Staples Center
The pop singer known as Pink has worked hard over the last decade to cultivate a reputation as a risk taker and a rule breaker, making wildly eclectic records that gleefully disregard the strictures of genre (flamenco-flecked electro-ska, anyone?) and pointing fun at fellow celebrities she figures could use the reality check.
Friday night at Staples Center, where she brought her yearlong world tour in support of 2008's "Funhouse," Pink's taste for danger took new shape. Several songs into the two-hour show, she paused the proceedings for a special announcement, telling the capacity crowd that she'd separated her shoulder four days earlier and that the injury was causing her a considerable amount of pain.
"But I've waited my whole life for tonight," she added, "so . . . it." Like much of what she says, Pink's actual verb of choice can't be quoted in a family newspaper.
If Friday's concert represented a scaled-down version of the "Funhouse" production, it's difficult to imagine what else it includes when Pink is operating at full strength. Modeled (not unlike Britney Spears' current tour) after a big-top circus show, the spectacle featured trapeze artists, giant inflatable clowns, numerous costume changes and a closing number, "Glitter in the Air," in which Pink was dunked in a pool of water while riding inside a fabric hammock wearing a barely-there bodysuit that appeared to be made of masking tape.Perhaps she left out the lion-taming bit.
Pink's disgust with celebrity gradually has turned into a fascination with it, and at Staples she presented herself to the audience as a sort of trusted guide to its excesses, pairing every over-the-top arena-gig indulgence with a gesture of her just-folks humility.
"This song makes me want to dance like an idiot," she said before her eight-piece band launched into "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)." "Nobody's allowed to be cool for the next four minutes." After a stripped-down piano-bar rendition of "Family Portrait," about how "it ain't easy growing up in World War III," she admitted that for the entire song she'd had a feather in her mouth, the result of an elaborate pillow fight during the previous tune, "So What."
Pink played material from throughout her songbook Friday, bouncing from fist-pumping guitar rock to sharp-angled dance-pop to an excellent approximation of what the Rolling Stones might've sounded like if they'd spent more time as a disco band. In the middle of the concert, she performed a four-song mini-set of folky acoustic numbers, including a hoedown-appropriate take on "Trouble" and "Dear Mr. President," in which a video screen contrasted images of terrified-looking Iraqis with a grinning George W. Bush.
The show also included a handful of daring covers: Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself," Led Zeppelin's version of the folk traditional "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." Delightfully dressed as a harlequin with an admiral's cap, Pink even pulled off an impressive version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen that elicited a standing ovation from "American Idol" glamazon Adam Lambert, who took in the production alongside several other stars from a section near the stage.
Like everything in Friday's concert -- like everything in Pink's career -- the song was a gamble, but one that the singer made look like a piece of cake.
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1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: San Jose Mercury News
by Jim Harrington
Pink brings `Funhouse' to town
Pink, you can color me surprised.
Who knew that the pop-rocker could deliver a concert as thoroughly entertaining as the one she put on Thursday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose? Definitely not this critic, whose previous experience with the star's live show came during the mediocre 2006-07 "I'm Not Dead" tour.
Indeed, I continued to doubt Pink's ability for the first 15 minutes of the San Jose concert. My initial reaction to this "Funhouse" tour, in support of Pink's fifth studio album of the same name, was that we've seen this kind of circus-themed production too frequently over the last 12 months _ on "The Circus Starring Britney Spears 2009 Tour" and with T-Pain's shows in support of 2008's "Thr33 Ringz." But we've never seen it done this successfully before.
Over the course of 100 minutes and 20-plus songs, the 30-year-old vocalist succeeded in putting on a true pop spectacle that was as good as any local crowds have seen this year. It's far better than what Britney delivered back in April, and it's right up there with thrilling show Beyonce put on in July.
What makes the feat even more amazing is that Pink was hurt.
"I separated my shoulder three days ago," the singer told the near-capacity crowd. "But there was no (expletive) way I was going to cancel this show."
And, seemingly, there was no (expletive) way she was going to let the injury slow her down, either.
Opening with a version of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," the spunky singer was a dynamic presence, mingling with clowns, acrobats and other wild characters as she rolled through the "Funhouse" single "Bad Influence" and the "Missundaztood" anthem "Just Like a Pill." She wore a ringmaster's outfit at the start, which was appropriate since there was never any doubt who was running the show.
Pink is such a flamboyant character, with chopped-short platinum-blonde hair, plenty of attitude and even more revealing outfits, that it's pretty easy to overlook that her greatest strength comes from possessing such a radio-friendly sound. The vocalist reminded fans as she belted out "Don't Let Me Get Me," "Please Don't Leave Me" and a dozen other mainstream numbers that, with a little tweak here or there, could work on just about any popular radio format (including country).
The show was fairly fast-paced and chock full of neat bells and whistles, with enough eye candy to provide a sugary rush for 15,000 fans. Yet, Pink also slowed it down, always when appropriate, and that only made the whole affair more delicious. Some of the show's best moments came in the more intimate settings, as Pink strummed a guitar alongside a cellist, violinist and double-bassist on an acoustic version of the tender "Family Portrait" and followed with a further-stripped-down arrangement for "Dear Mr. President."
She also got down and dirty, Madonna-style, on quite a few numbers. Notably, she appeared wearing black lingerie and sang the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself" while writhing on a modified couch, one complete with hands that came through the cushions and groped the star. Now, that's a piece of furniture they don't sell at IKEA.
She then moved the writhing over to a heart-shaped bed, where she would be joined by a bunch of foxy ladies in scantily clad outfits for "U + Ur Hand." The song climaxed with a big pillow fight - just like something out of a B-grade sorority-house sexploitation flick - as feathers flew about the stage.
Throughout the night, Pink supplemented her own song book with some great cover songs. She pulled off a shockingly convincing version of Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Going to Leave You," growling through the lyrics in a bluesy fashion that would impress even Robert Plant, and then turned HP into a dance party with Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." The best moment of the evening came with a spot-on rendition of Queen's "Wayne's World" favorite, "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Amid all the cover songs, Pink's own hits stood tall. They also held up well in the barrage of dance routines, costume changes, aerial feats and curious props (like the giant inflatable clown and jester dolls shown at the end of the show).
Producing a major pop spectacle that adds to, but never overshadows, the music is a mighty rare feat. And that's exactly what Pink accomplished. I had no idea she could pull it off, but I'll expecting more of the same the next time Pink comes to town.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Key Arena in Seattle, WA Sep 15, 2009
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: Seattle Times
by Marian Liu
P!nk pumps up KeyArena crowd in tour opener
P!nk launched a tour at KeyArena in Seattle Tuesday night, covering Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," The Divinyls' "I Touch Myself," Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Despite a separated shoulder, P!nk sure got the party started.
The pop star kicked off her tour Tuesday night in Seattle at the KeyArena with acrobats, larger than life inflated jesters and multiple costume changes. Actually, if she never admitted her injury, the packed audience would have never guessed she was hurt. She descended on a trapeze harness down to the stage, where she skipped about and joined the dancers in their routines.
But most of all, her trademark voice and attitude were not affected.
"The louder you are, the better I feel," said P!nk to her fans. She added that despite the pain, there was no way that she would have canceled the concert.
And boy, did she rock and wail, with hits from her almost decade long career. She sang herclassics, such as "Get the Party Started," "Just Like a Pill" and "Family Portrait," as well as recent singles "So What" and "Please Don't Leave Me."
The power of P!nk is her ability to channel her pain into her music - you feel what she feels. When she wants to ignite the party, people dance. And when she wants to go on a mission against a lost love, you pump your fists.
So naturally, the majority of her fans at the show were female, traveling in packs of solidarity. And the good-natured boyfriends and husbands in tow did not protest, even when P!nk was singing about accosting her on-again, off-again husband, motocross racer Carey Hart.
She did play to the partners though, covering Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," The Divinyls' "I Touch Myself," Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."She did them all justice. Plus, the males in attendance didn't seem to mind when female dancers staged a pillow fight in white undies on a large cheetah print bed on stage.
With the bed and costumes that didn't amount to much fabric, P!nk pushed the limits. There was plenty of eye candy (like her hot pink pasty and sparkly purple body suit), but unlike other pop tarts, the costumes were simply the frosting to ice a well-orchestrated show, not to hide its imperfections.
She was also very candid. When starting "Family Portrait," P!nk stopped, admitting she forgot the lyrics, but saying that proved she didn't lip-sync. She also repeated what she said on the "Today" show - that if Kanye were to stop her speech at the awards show like he did with Taylor Swift, he would have met her purse with the brass knuckle handle.
And she chose a great opener to rile things up. The Tings Tings are a favorite, made famous by an Apple ad. Actually, rock station The End (107.7 FM) put the duo down in larger print in their online concert listings, leaving P!nk in fine print. Also, Bumbershoot had signed The Tings Tings for the past Labor Day arts and music festival, before P!nk stole them away.
And the duo did not disappoint. Lead singer Katie White is a force, consuming the stage with her hits - "Shut Up and Let Me Go" and "That's Not My Name."
The only damper of the night was the venue. Originally the concert was planned for the smaller WaMu Theater, before being moved to KeyArena. The tickets were reasonably priced at around $40 each, but many fans got lost, unaware that though they were designated "general" seating, they were separated into lower and upper decks. Certain entrances only admitted one or the other.
But P!nk kept the crowd on a positive note, saying: "I've waited my whole life to get here. I'm so happy."
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Entertainment Centre Brisbane, Australia Jun 12, 2009
photo: Adam Smith Courier Mail
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
Pink Merchandise 2009
Review: The Courier Mail
by Anna Caldwell
Pink rocks at Boondall to sold out crowd
ROLL up, roll up - last night the Queensland love affair with US rock goddess Pink began in spectacular fashion at the at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
With a record-breaking 10 shows still to come, and an unprecedented one in 37 Queenslanders expected to see one of the circus-inspired Funhouse gigs, it needed to be dazzling.
Her enamoured fans, the Pink army, had assembled early dripping in Pink merchandise, glitter and heavy mascara - their hopes were high.
And when she soared in above the packed crowd, hoisted in a high-ropes extravaganza, the 29-year-old rocker didn't disappoint.
The stage, a fairground/Moulin Rouge hybrid, set the scene for jaw-dropping ballet, burlesque and bungee stunts.
Having trained with Cirque du Soleil trapeze artist Sebastien Stella for two months, Pink was more than up to the task of impressing the crowd - an eclectic mix ranging from wide-eyed pre-teens to awestruck pensioners.
The set included many of the big hits that have seen the star this week rack up all six of her albums dating back to 2001 in the Aria charts.
The crowd laughed when she belted out her break-up anthem So What that had been an unreserved dig at her husband after their now-repaired split in 2008.
The big hits were peppered by a variety of covers including AC/DC and Queen, rewarding the music-savvy in the crowd.
With Brisbane the fifth stop on this 58-gig tour, the element of surprise was dwindling. But as Pink might say, So What?
The screams were deafening, her laugh was infectious and the show is set to continue.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Entertainment Centre Sydney, Australia Jun 6, 2009
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: Sydney Morning Herald
by George Palathingal
A show with all the fun of the fair
IF YOU'RE confident enough to book three solid months playing Australia's arenas - including 10 already sold-out gigs in Sydney, with yet more to be announced - you had better have an amazing show. Not only does the American pop superstar Pink fulfil on almost all counts, her latest dazzling spectacle of a production gets more impressive with each act.
It starts with her being hoisted over the crowd from the centre of the auditorium to a stage set up as a fairground to reflect the theme of the current album Funhouse.
Later we'll get ballet, burlesque and bungee stunts, the obligatory semi-acoustic mini-set and Pink performing a trapeze act to her song Sober without missing a word, even when swinging upside-down. And after the whiz-bang thrills of the main set, the gorgeous finale goes somewhere completely unexpected by virtue of its utter elegance.
Most of her hits are accounted for - they basically come in two categories: passionate but melodramatic power ballad (Just Like A Pill), Family Portrait) and gleefully stupid but, in this context, irresistible pop anthem (So What, Get The Party Started) - yet there's also an off-putting reliance on cover versions, especially towards the end. The trip-hop cover of the Divinyls' I Touch Myself early on, accompanied by a pervy performance worthy of Madonna, is fair game, especially for someone who is significantly more popular in Australia than anywhere else. But late, studiously faithful takes on Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Gnarls Barkley's Crazy and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (yes, all of it) seem a touch excessive.
Still, as Pink herself might say, so what? She seems to enjoy herself, and everyone else certainly does. So, roll up, roll up - this funfair is deservedly set to roll on and on.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Newcastle Entertainment Centre Newcastle, Australia Jun 3, 2009
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
Pink Merchandise 2009
Review: The Herald
by Amy Edwards
Pink takes to the stage in Newcastle
A YEAR after Pink ended her Newcastle show by swinging from ceiling ropes, she has returned with an entire circus.
The performer launched the first of four sold-out Newcastle shows last night with a visual extravaganza comparable to a Cirque du Soleil act.
A singer first and an athlete second, Pink swung from a trapeze and performed daring aerial tricks.
All the while she sang hits such as Who Knew, Please Don't Leave Me and covers such as the Divinyls' I Touch Myself and AC/DC's Highway to Hell.
The Funhouse 2009 tour, which features a carnival-style stage, plays at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre again tonight as well as July 3 and 4.
Pink's popularity among Novocastrians is second to none.
Originally Pink had scheduled two shows in Newcastle, but after tickets sold out within hours, third and fourth shows were added. It follows her Hunter success in May last year, when she played to more than 21,000 people in three sell-out shows.
Pink is performing her concerts throughout Australia in conjunction with husband Carey Hart's free motocross shows.
The pair, who split last year, are back together and won't be remarrying, because they never actually divorced.
Pink is expected to attend Hart's event at Newcastle's Broadmeadow Showground from 3pm today.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Rod Laver Arena Melbourne, Australia May 30, 2009
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: The Age
by Reid Sexton
Pink's full-throttle pop packs a mighty punch
SHE may be Pink by name, but the singer who rocked Melbourne last night proved she is red hot by nature.
Pink brought her brand of power pop to Rod Laver Arena with a knockout gig that was part circus act, part raunchy cabaret show.
The toned, tattooed singer with the gutsy voice got the party started the moment she rocketed out from beneath the floor in a flurry of orange feathers and red spandex.
Riffing playfully on her huge popularity in Australia, as much as her cheeky sense of self-parody, she opened the show with AC/DC's Highway To Hell, aided adeptly by her hard-hitting rock band.
Highlights from her new No. 1 album Funhouse included Sober, Bad Influence, and Crystal Ball. So What, her aggro kiss-off to on-off hubby Carey Hart, came with a healthy dose of playful irony and daggy dance moves.
Pink's extensive back catalogue provided plenty of material to satisfy all of her fan club, from pre-teens to 30-something enthusiasts of savvy pop rock.
Older hits such as Just Like A Pill and Leave Me Alone were combined with several covers, including a gritty rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.
The crowd went wild when she performed early hit Let's Get the Party Started on a trapeze, spinning upside-down high above the stage in a daring display.
The Australian homage continued with a raunchy version of The Divinyls' I Touch Myself. The sex factor was ramped up with a red chaise longue, old school mic and a sultry trip hop back-beat.
The four-month tour is the biggest ever in Australia by a female performer and caps Pink's remarkable rise to thinking girl's pop idol with two No. 1 albums and three No. 1 singles.
Throughout the two-hour, sold-out show, Pink revelled in the sense of theatre, strutting and thrusting her super-chiselled body through the moves of a circus performer. You didn't need to be a fan to appreciate such pure entertainment.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Entertainment Centre Adelaide, Australia May 26, 2009
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
Pink Merchandise 2009
Review: Adelaide Now
by Callie Watson
Pink's tickled by Adelaide
TWO years after her last Adelaide appearance, Pink last night proved she is one of the world's best rock stars by putting on a display of dynamic acrobatics, extravagant costumes and powerhouse vocals.
TWO years after her last Adelaide appearance, Pink last night proved she is one of the world's best rock stars by putting n a dazzling show with a display of dynamic acrobatics, extravagant costumes and powerhouse vocals.
The packed and raucous Adelaide Entertainment Centre audience far from said So What (her latest hit) in response to the 29-year-old superstar's performance - lapping up her every minute on stage.
Since arriving in South Australia at the weekend, Pink has indulged in wine tasting at Penfolds, cycled through Adelaide and had lunch at the Convention Centre, but last night she got down to business.
Performing the third Australian concert - the first in Adelaide - of her mammoth Funhouse Australian tour that takes in 50 dates over three months, Pink started the spectacle by appearing in a film clip astride a motorcycle and belted out several lines of AC/DC's Highway to Hell.
She suddenly appeared like a jack-in-a-box, rising from beneath the stage to high above the crowd - which erupted into a deafening roar.
As she launched into Bad Influence the rock star crooned "wind me up and watch me go, it's electrifying" - and this was exactly what the crowd got.
The amazingly eye-catching set was a cross between a circus tent and the Paris' famous Moulin Rouge. The startling array of support characters, which ranged from a ballerina to french maids, were equally impressive.
Starting with popular songs from her first albums, including Just Like a Pill and Who Knew, Pink progressed to the anthemic So What and Sober from her latest album.
During Sober, the U.S. songstress again rose above the crowd, this time wearing a blinfold as she twisted and turned as part of a daring trapeze.
When she paused to take a breath- one of the few times she did so despite the level of difficulty with the show's acrobatics- the crowd was on the edge its seat.
Humourous interactions with the audience included asking one section of the crowd if they could be on "nipple watch''- a reference to a costume that almost failed to cover both breasts and a mention that she had been "thinking to much'' thanks to Penfolds.
Wearing a yellow jacket and a colourful purple, black and white leotard, Pink convincingly performed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
Other covers included a sultry version of The Divynls' I Touch Myself as she sat on a couch wearing nothing but a lacy bra and leggings and Crazy by Gnarls Barkely.
The spectacular encore saw Pink sing popular track Get the Party started and end with more acrobatics- this time it was a bungy-jump style fall as glitter fell from the sky during the fitting finale Glitter in the Air .
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Burswood Dome Perth, Australia May 22, 2009
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Setlist
1. "Highway to Hell" (Intro - AC/DC Cover)
2. "Bad Influence"
3. "Just Like A Pill"
4. "Who Knew"
5. "Please Don't Leave Me"
6. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
7. "I Touch Myself" (Divinyls cover)
8. "One Foot Wrong"
9. "U + Ur Hand"
10 "Ave Mary A"
11 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
12 "So What"
13 "Family Portrait"
14 "I Don't Believe You"
15 "Crystal Ball"
16 "Trouble" (Acoustic)
17 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Led Zeppelin cover)
18 "Sober"
19 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen cover)
20 "Funhouse"
21 "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley cover)
22 "Get The Party Started"
Encore:
23"Glitter In The Air"
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Review: The West Australian
by Ara Jansen
Pink stuns Perth with reborn Rocky Horror show style
Move over Britney, Christina, Rihanna and Beyonce because the princess of pop may be the new queen.
Pop star Pink made a dramatic entrance in red killer heels, spandex and feathers at Burswood Dome last night, the first performance of her record-breaking Australian tour.
The pixie-faced singer is doing 58 shows around the country over the next three months. In Perth, she has sold out more shows than Kylie's last tour.
Pink told popular daytime talk show host Ellen De Generes last week that Australians just get her.
She has found massive support from local audiences, with her new album Funhouse selling more than half a million copies here.
From the moment Pink emerged from the runway floor and flew over the stage, the Burswood audience was in the palm of her hand.
She kicked the show off with an awesome version of AC/DC's Highway To Hell. Bad Influence, a new song, came next followed by the 2001 single Just Like A Pill.
The opening bracket was rounded out by Who Knew and the chart-topping So What.
Back together with her husband, motocross rider Carey Hart, the songs from Funhouse took on an ironic edge.
The stage show was colourful, vibrant and stunning. Like a new millennium Rocky Horror Picture Show, it had all the elements of circus, theatre, carnival and music that the crowd just couldn't help but sing along to.
Pink plays again tonight and has two more shows in Perth on August 7 and 8.
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Liverpool Echo Arena, Liverpool UK April 29, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
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Pink at Liverpool Echo Arena 29.4.09 U and ur hand, leave me alone
Pink at Liverpool Echo Arena 29.4.09. sorry about the sound quality when the camera zooms in and out, i didnt realise that it made a difference until i watched the vids after!
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Metro Radio Arena Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK April 28, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: to follow
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews MEN Arena Manchester, UK April 26, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: to follow
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Odyssey Arena Belfast, Northern Ireland April 22/23, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: to follow
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews o2 Arena Dublin, Ireland April 19, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: to follow
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews NIA Birmingham, UK April 16, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Birmingham Mail
by Alison Dayani
Review: Pink at Birmingham NIA
IF Pink ever quits her day job, she can always turn to the circus.
For the petite 29-year-old twirled, balanced and manipulated her body around a trapeze while singing upside down 20ft high above a gasping audience in a pop concert meets Cirque du Soleil style show.
The acrobatics started earlier on with Pink emerging through the floor of a catwalk stage on a ring, floating in a red showgirl outfit with ruffled skirt and long train to the song Bad Influence.
It was to be the first of 10 costume changes - an array of skimpy leotards, glitzy bras with leggings and even a camp Captain's ensemble - through four segments which proved a dramatic feast for the eyes and ears.
Despite rekindling their romance, Pink's split with motorcross husband Carey Hart last year has done wonders for her career, the impetus behind her 'angry music' string of hits.
These were played out like a soap opera of the marriage breakdown with Pink pleading through Please Don't Leave Me, before So What and making an poor male dancer take the brunt of her anger in various painful ways.
Everything calmed down for an acoustic segment when the star was perhaps bracing herself for the circus escapades yet to come.
In a saucy leotard with only a small heart across her left breast, Pink took to the skies for song Sober, performing trapeze moves that were as professional as the expert alongside her. It was quite the show-stopper.
More aerial dramatics continued in the finale when the singer revealed her most daring leotard yet.
Surprisingly, despite singing most of her back catalogue, Pink also squeezed in covers of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Divinyls' Touch Myself.
Pink definitely gives a value for money, quality show over two hours, although fans will leave with the trapeze tricks at the forefront of their minds rather than the music.
Pink performs again at the NIA tonight and returns again on October 30 and 31.
VERDICT: 4/5
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Exhibition Centre Aberdeen, Scotland UK April 13, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: The Press & Journal
by Colene McKessick
Pop-rocker in showstopping form
Pink enthrals her audience with stunning performance
THERE are not many acts who could convince the public to part with £32.50 of their hard-earned cash at the moment, but Pink certainly gave the Aberdeen crowd their money's worth last night.
The two-time Grammy award and five-time MTV award winning singer songwriter returned to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre as part of her 128-date Funhouse tour, and blew the crowd away.
Emerging from a giant jack-in-the-box in the middle of the crowd, the muscular star was dressed like a burlesque ringleader, with the stage becoming her own carnival, complete with chutes, waltzers and giant jesters. From the outset she was a true performer, belting out hits such as Who Knew, Like A Pill and current single Please Don't Leave Me. Bouncing across the stage in little more than some sparkly spandex and a plume of feathers, Pink knew how to work her crowd.
The pint-sized pop-rocker certainly didn't shy away from her usual expletive-littered conversation. She reveled in jaw-dropping antics, taking part in a giant pillow fight to So What, before reappearing in an outfit which saw her modesty covered by little more than a small glittery heart-shaped sticker. But her voice and endless enthusiasm were the real show stealers, as the cheers of the 8,500 crowd confirmed.
From a subdued performance of Family Portrait to an all-out arena singalong to Bohemian Rhapsody, Pink, real name Alicia Moore, had the crowd in the palm of her hand.
Finishing the show spinning above the stage from a giant ribbon to album track Glitter in the Air, Pink ensured she got the party well and truly started in Aberdeen.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews SECC Glasgow, Scotland UK April 11, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: The Times Online
by Lisa Verrico
Pink at the SECC, Glasgow
In terms of spectacle and set design, it would be difficult to find a better pop show than Pink's. Taking the title of her current album, Funhouse, as a theme, the 29-year-old American played ringmaster, rode slides and performed acrobatics in Glasgow at the start of her British tour. Her eye-catching costumes were part Moulin Rouge and part old-school circus, while the top of an ornate carousel dominated the stage and props descended from the ceiling or rose up through trapdoors.
Pink's entrance was pure theatre. Released from a box at the end of a satin-covered walkway that stretched out into the crowd, she spun through the air in a brightly coloured bodice and feather train that swept the floor 15ft below her. A six-piece band, including a violinist, a guitarist and a drummer in a Waltzer car, played loud and lively while a troupe of dancers paused their energetic routine to strip Pink down to a pair of sparkly leggings, a scarf strategically slung over her toned torso and a pair of towering high heels.
There was so much to take in that the music seemed secondary, which was just as well. The opener, Bad Influence, was a tame, tune-free track from Funhouse. Pink's fifth album may have topped the charts here late last year, resurrecting a faltering career, but it is made up mostly of mediocre pop-rock songs and bland ballads.
Though the predominantly female audience - which ranged from six-year-olds waving glowsticks to well-oiled fortysomethings in pink cowboy hats - cheered almost from start to finish, it was the old hits that had them punching the air.
The best were Don't Let Me Get Me, when Pink's crotch-grabbing antics were interrupted by a fan throwing an enormous bunny on stage, and a fabulous U + Ur Hand, recalling Suzi Quatro in sound and Madonna circa Blonde Ambition, thanks to an outfit of biker jacket, pedal pushers and trilby.
The only memorable new pieces were So What and Sober, the former for its catchy, child-like lyrics, the latter for a stunning trapeze act that saw Pink somersault through the air and hang from the hand of an acrobat.
Yet, for all the fun, the concert rarely delivered a knockout punch. Pink has styled herself as the rock chick of pop, but even Miley Cyrus has tougher tunes and several covers did Pink's strong but soulless voice few favours. The worst was a hen party version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Olympiahalle Munich, Germany April 6, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Sueddeutsche.de
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Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Color Line Arena Hamburg, Germany April 1, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Abendblatt.de
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Arena Kölnarena Cologne, Germany Mar 30, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Arena Nurnberg Nurnberg, Germany Mar 28, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Roth-Hilpoltsteiner Volkszeitung
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Stadthalle Vienna, Austria Mar 25, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Krone.at
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews 02 World Berlin, Germany Mar 17, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Berlin Online
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Arena Leipzig, Germany Mar 17, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: LVZ Online
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Schleyerhalle Stuttgart, Germany Mar 14, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews SAP Arena Mannheim, Germany Mar 12, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Morgenweb.de
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Bercy Paris, France Mar 9, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Purepeople.com
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews König-Pilsener-Arena,Oberhausen Germany Mar 8, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Tonight.rp-online.de
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Donau-Arena Regensburg, Germany Mar 5, 2009
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Donau-Arena Regensburg, Germany Mar 5, 2009
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Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: Newsticker.sueddeutsche.de
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Ahoy Rotterdam, Netherlands Mar 1, 2009
photo: NU.nl/Erik Blokland
Pink Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews Ahoy Rotterdam, Netherlands Mar 1, 2009
Pink Tickets ... World Tour 2009
Setlist
"Highway to Hell" (Intro)
"Bad Influence"
"Just Like A Pill"
"One Foot Wrong"
"Who Knew"
"Please Don't Leave Me"
"It's All Your Fault"
"I Touch Myself" (Divinyls Cover)
"U + Ur Hand"
"Ave Mary A"
"I Don't Believe You"
"Crystal Ball"
"Trouble"
"So What"
"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
"Family Portrait"
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen Cover)
"Sober"
"Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
"Funhouse"
Encore:
"Glitter In The Air"
"Get The Party Started"
Review: NU.NL Musiek
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