Pretenders break off to do their own show

[Macfan4life]

The Pretenders are playing a theater on Miami Beach on March 22, one day after the show with Stevie in Orlando. Are they doing this anywhere else? They really must be having fun or really craving to do a full show to break off a major tour like that. I suppose the way Stevie tours allows them to do it with days off between shows.

[SisterNightroad]

Yes already during the first part of the tour they alternated shows in arenas with Stevie and shows in smaller venues on their own when they could.

[Macfan4life]

Yes already during the first part of the tour they alternated shows in arenas with Stevie and shows in smaller venues on their own when they could.
I suppose they figure while on the road maximize every chance they get. I would love to know the cut the pretenders get for opening for Stevie.

[SisterNightroad]

Chrissie Hynde during an interview last December explained why she alternated solo and Stevie's shows like this:

“There were so many days off on this tour that I started freaking out when I saw the schedule,” Hynde explains. “I thought, ‘Well, I’m gonna go ****ing nuts.’ Because you know we don’t really do days off. I mean, a day off after three shows, maybe four, is fine because if I do more than that it’s against me, psychologically, and I start to get a little ****ed up in the head. I’ve got to take a break from it. But there were a lot of days off on this tour. I don’t know how Stevie organizes it but what we’ve done is we’ve popped in a lot of our own shows between on some of these days off.

“There we can do a lot of our new songs, because with Stevie I can’t expect to go out for an hour to an audience that isn’t there to see me and say, ‘Hey, listen to all our new songs!’ They’ll be, like, ‘Well, **** you. Who are you? I don’t even know who you are.’”
“So we hit them with stuff they know because that’s the name of the game. But for our audiences, at our own shows, everyone that’s going to come probably has listened to [Alone], because when we did it with the Stockholm album, and we went out and toured it, certainly everyone that I could see up at the front seemed to know all the words.

[Steviegirl]

What a gracious woman. This isn't the first time Chrissie has said things like that about this tour. I realize that Stevie is the headliner, but she's Chrissie Hynde, for crying out loud! It's still nice to hear someone respond in such a gracious and humble way. It makes me like her even more...and I already liked her an awful lot.

[elle]

The Pretenders are playing a theater on Miami Beach on March 22, one day after the show with Stevie in Orlando. Are they doing this anywhere else? They really must be having fun or really craving to do a full show to break off a major tour like that. I suppose the way Stevie tours allows them to do it with days off between shows.

they've been doing that all along. Chrissie said in some recent interview that Stevie's tour is too slow for her with too many breaks between show dates so they fill in dates in between with solo shows.

EDIT: i see someone already posted relevant interview excerpt.

[bwboy]

What a gracious woman. This isn't the first time Chrissie has said things like that about this tour. I realize that Stevie is the headliner, but she's Chrissie Hynde, for crying out loud! It's still nice to someone respond in such a gracious and humble way. It makes me like her even more...and I already liked her an awful lot.

Totally agree! I think Chrissie Hynde might be underestimating her own popularity a bit, but her modesty is refreshingly sincere. Very classy of her.

[elle]

Yes already during the first part of the tour they alternated shows in arenas with Stevie and shows in smaller venues on their own when they could.

just bought tickets for a DC/MD solo date - yay!!

apparently they are doing 19-20 songs solo vs 15 when in arenas with SN.

[SisterNightroad]

Dates for who is interested (P.S. funny they're playing in Silver Spring):


The Pretenders playing headlining shows during tour with Stevie Nicks
By Andrew Sacher February 13, 2017 11:15 AM

As you may know, The Pretenders are opening for Stevie Nicks on tour this year, including NYC-area shows at the Prudential Center on 4/2 and The New (Nassau) Coliseum on 4/6 (tickets). While they’re on the road, they’ll do some headlining dates as well.
The headlining dates include NYC on April 3 at Terminal 5. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (2/17) at noon with one presale starting Tuesday (2/14) at 10 AM and an AmEx presale starting Wednesday (2/15) at 10 AM. All dates, including a headlining Atlantic City show, are listed below.
Last year, The Pretenders released their Dan Auerbach-produced Alone, their first album since 2008. Watch them play the title track on Conan:

The Pretenders — 2017 North American Tour Dates

FEBRUARY
23 – Reno, NV – Reno Events Center
25 – Salt Lake City, UT – Vivint Smart Home Arena
28 – Portland, OR – Moda Center

MARCH
2 – San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena
3 – Temecula, CA – Pechanga Theater – HEADLINING
6 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center
8 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
10 – Bossier City, LA – CenturyLink Center
12 – Austin,TX – Frank Erwin Center
13 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
15 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
17 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
19 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
21 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center
22 – Miami, FL – The Fillmore – HEADLINING
23 – Jacksonville, FL – Jacksonville Arena
25 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena
26 – Baltimore, MD – Royal Farms Arena
27 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore – HEADLINING
29 – Indianapolis, IN – Bankers Life Fieldhouse
31 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena

APRIL
1 – Atlantic City, NJ – Golden Nugget – HEADLINING
2 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
2 – New York, NY – Terminal 5 – HEADLINING
5 – Manchester, NH – SNHU Arena
6 – Long Island, NY – Nassau Coliseum
all non-headlining dates with Stevie Nicks



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