The Battle Studies World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American singer
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Born and raised in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Mayer attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but left and moved to Atlanta in 1997 with ...
. The tour spanned across the North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia promoting his fourth studio album ''
Battle Studies
''Battle Studies'' is a book by Ardant du Picq, a colonel in the French Army who was killed in 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War. The work was never completed, but Du Picq had written many chapters completely and left sufficient notes behind to com ...
'' (2009).
Background
The tour was announced on November 5, 2009, with tickets going on sale November 21, 2009.
Paperless ticketing was used for purchasing and entering the concert. The second leg of North America was announced on March 31, beginning in
Charlotte, North Carolina on July 16, 2010.
The show on August 28 was a co-headline show with
Keith Urban.
Opening acts
*
Michael Franti and Spearhead
Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966) is an American rapper, musician, poet, activist, documentarian, and singer-songwriter, known for his participation in many musical projects, most with a political and social emphasis, including the Beatnigs ...
*
Orianthi (Australia)
*Lisa Loïs
(The Netherlands)
*
Train (July 16–30 & August 1–11)
*
The Avett Brothers (Bristow, Cuyahoga Falls, Tinley Park & Noblesville)
*
Owl City (August 18 – September 11)
*
Alberta Cross
Alberta Cross are an Anglo-Swedish rock band, formed in 2005 in London, England by singer-guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee and bassist Terry Wolfers.
In 2013 Wolfers left the band, leaving Stakee as the only permanent member. The band's officia ...
(UK & The Netherlands)
*
Aiza Seguerra
Cariza "Ice" Yamson Seguerra (born September 17, 1983), formerly and still known professionally as Aiza Seguerra, is a Filipino actor, singer-songwriter, director and guitarist. Initially coming out as a lesbian in 2007, Seguerra now identifies ...
(SM Mall of Asia, the Philippines)
Setlist
# "
Chest Fever"
( The Band cover)
# "Vultures"
# "
Clarity"
# "
Why Georgia
"Why Georgia" is the third single released by John Mayer from his first album, ''Room for Squares''. As a B-side, the international version single featured the live version of "Why Georgia" as it appeared on Mayer's first live album, '' Any Given ...
"
# "Machine Gun"
# "
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
# "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room"
# "Beast of Burden"
( The Rolling Stone cover)
# "Perfectly Lonely"
# "Covered in Rain"
# "Stop This Train"
# "
Your Body Is a Wonderland"
# "Good Love Is on the Way"
# "Gravity"
# "
I've Got Dreams to Remember"
# "
Who Says"
# "Waiting on the World to Change"
# "Do You Know Me"
# "Half of My Heart"
Encore
# "Wheel"
# "Edge of Desire"
# "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"
Tour dates
*After a sold-out performance in Copenhagen, Mayer was forced to cancel his second show there due to illness, this also affected the remaining European shows in Amsterdam, Lisbon & Manchester to be cancelled also.
*Due to equipment damage from a severe thunderstorm, the concert originally scheduled for July 25, 2010, in Hershey, Pennsylvania was postponed to August 5.
;Miscellaneous
Box office score data
References
External links
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{{John Mayer
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2010 concert tours
John Mayer concert tours