Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway Tour Discussion #2: Our memories are never GONE, because we're too ADDICTED!

**KC and LP Fan** · 08-17-2008, 07:19 PM

In Early 2005, Kelly Clarkson started a 38-date North American tour on the huge success of the Breakaway album. The tour later moved its way into Europe in 2006.

Tour Dates:
Wednesday, 3/30 Tulsa, OK Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Thursday, 3/31 Kansas City, KS Midland Theatre
Saturday, 4/2 Omaha, NE Civic Music Hall
Sunday, 4/3 St. Louis, MO Keiner Square
Tuesday, 4/5 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre
Wednesday, 4/6 Minneapolis, MN Historic State Theatre
Friday, 4/8 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
Saturday, 4/9 Cleveland, OH Palace Theatre
Monday, 4/11 Columbus, OH Palace Theatre
Tuesday, 4/12 Detroit, MI State Theatre
Thursday, 4/14 Chicago, IL Rosemont
Saturday, 4/16 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
Sunday, 4/17 Kitchener, ON Centre in the Square
Tuesday, 4/19 London, ON John Labatt Centre
Thursday, 4/21 Montreal, QC Place des Arts
Friday, 4/22 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
Sunday, 4/24 Wallingford, CT Oakdale Music Theatre
Monday, 4/25 Newark, NJ New Jersey PAC
Wednesday, 4/27 New York, NY Hammerstein
Thursday, 4/28 Providence, RI Providence Performing Arts Center
Saturday, 4/30 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
Sunday, 5/1 Washington DC DAR Constitution Hall
Tuesday, 5/3 Clemson, SC Littlejohn Coliseum
Wednesday, 5/4 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
Friday, 5/6 Miami, FL Mizner Park Amphitheater
Saturday, 5/7 Tampa, FL Ruth Eckerd
Monday, 5/9 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless
Tuesday, 5/10 Dallas, TX Nokia Live
Monday, 5/16 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
Wednesday, 5/18 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern
Thursday, 5/19 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern
Tuesday, 5/24 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Center
Thursday, 5/26 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
Saturday, 5/28 Portland, OR Schnitzer Auditorium
Sunday, 5/29 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Reviews

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledg...8069675470.xml

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'Idol' basks in fervent fans' glow
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
BY CLAUDIA PERRY
Star-Ledger Staff

Screams of 'tweens, teens and a few parents greeted Kelly Clarkson Monday night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

Proving the audience could multi-task, green glow sticks imprinted with Clarkson's name waved for most of the 75-minute performance.

Clarkson efficiently delivered 19 songs in that time frame, with one costume change. She traded black hip-huggers and a studded belt for a multi-colored skirt that screamed "hippie chick."

Clarkson, who turned 23 on Sunday, is a bit of a screamer herself. She has a powerful voice, but her vocal dynamics are nearly mechanical in their precision. Every song featured her opening the vocal throttle wide, alternating with high-pitched, whispery singing. Top that off with a few melismatic runs, and you have the formula followed by various arena belters.

This is the kind of singing richly rewarded on "American Idol," which Clarkson won in 2002. Lately, she's been trying to distance herself from the TV show, firing manager Simon Fuller and seeking out slightly edgier material.

Will it work? It depends on how one perceives her career arc. She did a "bluesy" set, complete with stripped-down drums and band members perched on stools, performing "What's Up Lonely," "Thankful" and "The Trouble With Love Is." She then moved on to her influences, singing "Piece of My Heart," "The Thrill Is Gone" and "Sweet Dreams."

If this is her preferred direction, she'll soon be writing an autobiography, "Lady Sings the Teals."

However, when Clarkson slows down and takes on a ballad or two, she sounds a lot more credible. The high point of the show was "Beautiful Disaster." Clarkson used all the gadgets in her toolbox, and the performance sounded less like a practice session and more emotionally vibrant. She worked the same magic with "Don't," a song that doesn't appear on either of her albums.

There's nothing wrong with being a pop singer who brings nuance and restraint to the party. You probably won't sell millions of records and you may puzzle the 'tween and teen audience, but it's a risk Clarkson should consider taking.

But for now, she sounds like a lot of nice 23-year-old girls who know how to sing, but don't have the life experience to craft a compelling musical personality.

Perhaps for her audience that's fine. But for some of us, it's not enough.

The Graham Colton Band, fellow Texans, opened the show with a half-hour set of agreeable pop songs. Lead singer Colton looks like the kind of guy who could make you rob your parents to pay his bail, but he's really a nice Southern fellow with a pretty good band behind him. The only problem with the set was overloud bass in the house mix.

Clarkson performs tonight at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan. That show is close to sold out. She will also be part of the lineup of the WHTZ (100.3 FM) Zootopia concert on May 22 at Continental Airlines Arena.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localne...KSON_0507.html

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Blues-belting Clarkson truly a talent worth idolizing
By Leslie Gray Streeter
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 07, 2005

I'm going to make a wacky statement, and I know you're gonna think I've been partaking of something illegal here. But here goes: After witnessing the shockingly soulful, satisfyingly rocky, authentically pop-bluesy set by original American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson at Mizner Park Friday night, I'm confident that if she'd been discovered in some grotty blues club instead of on a glitzy game show she'd get the same props that blue-eyed soul chicks like Joss Stone get.

Yes, I'm serious

I always suspected that when the blond Burleson, Texas, native had a few years between her and Fox's televised talent fest she'd prove that the chops she hinted at on her cover of Aretha's Franklin's Natural Woman weren't a fluke, and that elevated schlock like A Moment Like This to something... a little less schlocky.

Taking the stage to the upbeat independence anthem Since U Been Gone, Clarkson established why her sold-out audience was composed of little girls, their mothers and single gals out on the town old enough to be their mothers.

She oozes sassy but sensible confidence and the sort of DIY self-reliance I'd like my little girls to emulate if I had them.

Heck, I'd like to emulate that myself.

Highlights included the self-written, acoustic Don't, a let-it-all-go churchy take on the ballad The Trouble With Love and a medley of covers, featuring a version of Janis Joplin's A Piece of My Heart so good that... well, you wouldn't believe it.

There is an authenticity to Clarkson, even in her fresh-scrubbedness that makes me excited for every year removed between her and her former TV show, years that will take her amazing talent and make it something even more worth idolizing.

Video Clips

Since U Been Gone

Walk Away

Gone

Sweet Dreams

Beautiful Disaster

Becuase of You

Where Is Your Heart

A Moment Like This

Breakaway

dwindling hope · 08-17-2008, 07:22 PM

Of course its cool Mal! Thanks for starting the new thread!

**KC and LP Fan** · 08-17-2008, 08:58 PM

Alright guys, here's a new opening post for this thread!!!!

Dreamscape12 · 08-17-2008, 09:16 PM

New thread!

The opening looks AMAZING, Mal!! Great job!!

secret tragedy · 08-17-2008, 09:21 PM

Mal, LOVE the opening!

Looks awesome.

**DanceWithLife** · 08-17-2008, 09:22 PM

Oh wow, thank you for the new thread! I love the title and the OP!

**KC and LP Fan** · 08-17-2008, 09:24 PM

your welcome guys!

This is what happens when I am bored (and should be planning for teaching)

**DanceWithLife** · 08-18-2008, 04:15 AM

Well then I LOVE when you are bored!

dwindling hope · 08-18-2008, 06:56 PM

Mal you should be bored more often

The opening looks absolutely AMAZING!

**KC and LP Fan** · 08-18-2008, 07:12 PM

Thanks Emmy

dwindling hope · 08-18-2008, 07:17 PM

I love the articles you put in there as well.

There's definitely something wrong with me tonight. But I'm loving this line:

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Clarkson, who turned 23 on Sunday, is a bit of a screamer herself.

**DanceWithLife** · 09-04-2008, 10:41 PM

That line is wrong on so many levels it's awesome!

Dreamscape12 · 09-05-2008, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by DanceWithLife (View Post)

That line is wrong on so many levels it's awesome!

Oh gosh, I know!

I can't believe they actually printed that!

**DanceWithLife** · 09-08-2008, 10:37 AM

I remember reading that the first time and doing a double take, thinking I had read it wrong

DARKNESSBALL · 09-21-2008, 02:42 PM

i get the feeling this shouldn't be on youtube but it is and i love it. YouTube - Kelly Clarkson Exclusive - Tour Rehearsals