Start date May 12, 2006 Legs 1 | End date July 1, 2006 Leg 1 | |
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No. of shows 29 in North America18 performed | ||
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The Road Rage Tour is a concert tour co-headlined by The New Cars and Blondie in the North America in 2006.
Contents
- Doc nuece road rage tour footage
- Background
- Set
- Tour cancellation
- Tour dates
- Road Rage Winter Tour
- Promotion
- Personnel
- References
Background
The Road Rage Tour was The New Cars first tour, the first time an incarnation of The Cars has toured in seventeen years. VH-1 Classic sponsored the tour, and commercials were aired frequently on VH-1 and its sister channels to draw attention to the tour.
The tour featured a unique internet promotion. With each online ticket purchase through VH1classic.com or Ticketmaster.com a full album The New Cars and Blondie: Road Rage was offered to free download from eMusic.com. The album included five songs performed by The New Cars (four classic songs of The Cars, recorded live and the newly penned studio track "Not Tonight") and five songs performed by Blondie (four previously unreleased live tracks and one new studio cover of Roxy Music hit "More than This"). Currently eMusic offers a shortened version of the album in a form of 4 track EP.
Set
The New Cars set was reportedly designed by drummer Prairie Prince. It featured large, circular, metallic rings with screens in them suspended above the stage. The rings were meant to resemble a stop light. The drummer sat in a large glowing ring, and the keyboards were elevated behind the center of the stage. The set was concealed when Blondie performed by a large black tarp, meant to resemble the New York City skyline.
Tour cancellation
During the tour an accident have happened with The New Cars' guitarist Elliot Easton. While driving on the band's tour bus a traffic accident occurred, and Easton broke his arm. He did play four shows with the broken arm, but eventually, it became evident that he would need surgery and the rest of the tour dates were canceled.
Tour dates
Road Rage Winter Tour
After the original tour cancellation The New Cars and Blondie went separate ways. Blondie went on short tour to Asia in September with single stops in USA before and after, while The New Cars continued the Road Rage tour in winter without Blondie with Persephone's Bees as a supporting act. The winter dates were scheduled to be of much smaller, theatre, venues, than large-scale arenas of the summer leg. Kasim Sulton was not featured on several shows due to his touring with Meat Loaf in support of Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose album with Atom Ellis filling for him.
Promotion
VIP Tickets, a popular feature during the summer tour, was available for most venues of the winter leg, with the exclusion of the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. Reserved fan-club seating was also available at most venues, except the Count Basie. A ticket pre-sale began on September 18, 2006. Ticketmaster supplied the tickets for most of the venues, although Seatadvisor and various box offices did carry tickets for others.