Pink’s astonishing and record-breaking Funhouse Tour will be transformed into a Carnival-style spectacular with a visually stunning new production. The Carnival with roll into nine British cities, seven open-air stadiums and two massive festivals across the UK, and it will, without doubt, leave hundreds of thousands of fans across the UK stunned with P!nk’s special brand of high octane and dazzling performance.

The Summer Carnival Tour was announced by tour promoter, Eventim, on October 14, 2009, followed by an announcement on Pink’s official website in November:

During an interview (Listen) with online radio station, IN:DEMAND, Pink stated there will be a new setlist and less acrobatics, confirming that the tour isn’t just a continuation of her previous tour.

In December 2009, it was also confirmed that Pink will headline music festival throughout Europe during the tour:

Special guests announced

P!nk announce her special guests for the Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour:

Copenhagen: Nik & Jay, The Raveonettes.
England: City and Colour, Hockey, VV Brown.
Europe: Butch Walker, Good Charlotte, Silbermond.
France: Vadel
Germany: Evermore, Paolo Nutini, Stanfour.
Helsinki: PMMP
Innsbruck: Nikka Costa, OneRepublic.
Russia: Mumiy Troll
Sweden: Takida
United Kingdom: Gossip, The Ting Tings.

Pink’s Twitter: “So excited 2 b playing with ting tings, gossip, vv brown, city and color, and many many more. a big bucket of yum. Also playing with my fav paolo nutini, and nikka costa is gonna come do a show. how excited am I?”

City and Colour - 11st June

Pink launches Funhouse Summer Carnival tour

In Cologne on Saturday night (29st May), performer and superstar Pink made an explosive entrance as she opened her Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour, leaving over 50,000 fans stunned and speechless. In true Pink style the show saw brand new, never tried before stunts, including being blown out of a box 100ft in the air by a canon, rolling around over the audience in a huge inflatable ball, performing acrobatics on silks 80ft in the air and flying like peter pan across the entire stadium.

Pink is never one for doing things by halves – through all the incredible stunts one-thing remains clear, her love for the music and her larger than life voice, which filled out the 52,000 capacity stadium with ease.

Her high-octane performance is incomparable to anything or any other artist out there. Not only does she put on the most visually stunning show from start to finish, with every single detail thought of – from lights to set, to the at times, hilarious video footage behind the stage but Pink proves once again that she is the ultimate artist of a generation.

The performance featured a set that looked like an entire summer carnival town recreated onstage.

Pink arrived on the scene with a spectacular acrobatic stunt. The artist was by “dropped” from a giant crane-suspended box of balloons. From there the breath-taking feats just kept coming, as Pink channeled her inner trapeze artist.

Throughout the show, there were costume changes galore, from various trapeze artist looks to something akin to a dominatrix ringmaster. And, those were just Pink’s costumes. At one point, back-up dancers were onstage with some sort of skimp, neon, pseudo-savage costumes.

The stage show also included a giant hamster-ball that Pink navigated into the crowd.

There is no doubt that the audience got their money’s worth at the high energy, part circus, part concert show.

Watch the Funhouse Summer Carnival Video!

Check out this spectacular video highlighting the best moments from P!nk’s Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour! Watch it below:

Setlist

1. “Get The Party Started”
2. “Funhouse”
3. “Ave Mary A”
4. “Who Knew”
5. “Bad Influence”
6. “Please Don’t Leave Me”
7. “Sober”
8. “I’m Not Dead”
9. “Unwind”
10. “Mean” (feat Butch Walker)
11. “I Don’t Believe You”
12. “Dear Mr. President”
13. “What’s Up”
14. Medley: (all songs performed with Butch Walker)
a. “My Generation” (Cover of The Who)
b. “Basket Case” (Cover of Green Day)
c. “Roxanne” (Cover of The Police)
15. “Whataya Want From Me”
16. “Just Like A Pill”
17. “Try Too Hard”
18. “U + Ur Hand”
19. “Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)”
20. Encore:
a. “So What”

Additional notes

* During the tour, Pink performs “Whataya Want From Me”. This song was written by Max Martin, Pink and Karl Schuster in 2008 and was intended to be included on the “Funhouse” album. It was given to Adam Lambert for his debut album, “For your Entertainment”
* At the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands Pink performed a cover of Tom Petty: “Free Falling”.
* I Don’t Believe You & Dear Mr. President were added to the setlist from Heilbronn and onwards.
* What’s Up was added to the setlist at the Sunderland concert.
* Pink has also confirmed that she will be changing the set list many times so that the show has some sort of variety from place to place.

Calendar

*Choose a show, click and  see pictures in our gallery.*

MAY
29/5 – Köln, Rhein-Energie-Stadion, Germany
30/5 – Pinkpop, The Netherlands

JUNE
02/6 – Heilbronn, Frankenstadion, Germany
03/6 – Stadtallendorf, Hessentag, Germany
05/6 – Innsbruck (Olympiaworld), Austria
06/6 – München, Reitstadion Riem, Germany
08/6 – Berlin, Waldbühne, Germany
11/6 – Sunderland, Stadium of Light, UK
12/6 – Bolton, Reebok Stadium, UK
13/6 – Isle of Wight Festival, UK
16/6 – Belfast, UK
19/6 – Dublin, Ireland,
20/6 – Limerick, Ireland
23/6 – Liberty Stadium, Swansea, UK
24/6 – Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
26/6 – Hampden Park, Glasgow, UK
27/6 – Alton Towers, Staffordshire, UK
29/6 – Portman Road, Ipswich, UK

JULY
2/7 – Wireless Festival, London, UK
3/7 – Werchter, Belgium
4/7 – Mainsquare, Arras, France
6/7 – Festival de Nimes (Nimes, south of France)
08/7 – Linz, (gugl-stadion), Austria
10/7 – Bern, Switzerland
12/7 – Moon and Stars Locarno, Switzerland
13/7 – Nikaia Festival de Nice, France
15/7 – Nürnberg, Germany
16/7 – Schloss Salem, Germany
18/7 – St. Petersburg, Russia
20/7 – Prague
21/7 – Helsinki, (Kaisaniemi), Finland
23/7 – Gothenburg (Ullevi), Sweden
24/7 – Copenhagen, Denmark
25/7 – P!nk to Kristiansand, Norway

TourBook

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