One Wild Night Tour was a worldwide tour in support of Bon Jovi's seventh studio album Crush (2000).
Background The tour was originally planned to kick off in Japan, but instead, the band decided to headline the charity concert on Melbourne's Colonial Stadium on March 24, 2001, to raise funds for flood-stricken farmers. There were 34,000 attenders and the concert grossed $850,000. Because of the falling Australian dollar, production costs soared close $500,000 and it involved transporting 70 tons of Bon Jovi's equipment in a jumbo jet from the United States. Paul Krige, managing director of Universal Music Australia, said that A$300,000 were made from ticket sales alone. Approximately $50,000 were raised from telethon that was hold nationally on April 15, 2001 by Seven Network, which screened the concert on that day. Proceeds went to State Emergency Services and Volunteer Bushfire Service. Six tracks from Bon Jovi's set were included on Australian only bonus CD of the Bon Jovi's debut live album One Wild Night Live 1985-2001 (2001).
The Japanese leg of the tour kicked off in Yokohama with two concerts in Yokohama Arena on March 28 and 29. The Japanese leg of the tour lasted until April 5. Following five shows in Japan, the band embarked on the first North American leg of the tour on April 18, playing concerts in arenas and amphitheaters. Through May 2001, the band headed to Europe for a month of concerts before returning to United States for a series of concerts that culminated on July 27 show at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
Personnel Bon Jovi Jon Bon Jovi – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, maracas for Keep the Faith, tambourine for Hey God Richie Sambora – lead guitar, talk box, backing vocals David Bryan – keyboards, backing vocals Tico Torres – drums, percussion
Additional musicians Hugh McDonald – bass, backing vocals Alec John Such – bass (Guest at two shows)
Tour dates Date City Country VenueOceania March 24, 2001 Melbourne Australia Etihad StadiumAsia March 28, 2001 Yokohama Japan Yokohama Arena March 29, 2001 March 31, 2001 Osaka Osaka Dome April 3, 2001 Nagoya Nagoya Dome April 5, 2001 Tokyo Tokyo DomeNorth America April 18, 2001 Phoenix United States Desert Sky Pavilion April 20, 2001 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond April 21, 2001 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena April 23, 2001 San Jose San Jose Arena April 25, 2001 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol April 28, 2001 Salt Lake City United States Delta Center April 30, 2001 Denver Pepsi Center May 2, 2001 Dallas Smirnoff Music Centre May 4, 2001 Columbus Value City Arena May 5, 2001 Cleveland Gund Arena May 8, 2001 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena May 10, 2001 Raleigh Walnut Creek Amphitheatre May 11, 2001 Atlanta Philips Arena May 13, 2001 Washington, D.C. MCI Center May 15, 2001 Greenville BI-LO Center May 17, 2001 Ottawa Canada Corel Centre May 19, 2001 Quebec City Colisée Pepsi May 20, 2001 Albany United States Pepsi ArenaEurope May 31, 2001 Stockholm Sweden Stockholms Stadion June 3, 2001 Werchter Belgium Werchter festival ground June 5, 2001 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena June 6, 2001 June 8, 2001 Glasgow Scotland Hampden Park June 10, 2001 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena June 13, 2001 Huddersfield England Galpharm Stadium June 16, 2001 Milton Keynes National Bowl June 17, 2001 Cardiff Wales Millennium Stadium June 19, 2001 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy June 20, 2001 Cologne Germany Müngersdorfer Stadion June 22, 2001 Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasen June 24, 2001 Hamburg Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld June 26, 2001 Zürich Switzerland Letzigrund June 27, 2001 Padua Italy Stadio Euganeo June 29, 2001 Vienna Austria Praterstadion June 30, 2001 Munich Germany OlympiastadionNorth America July 8, 2001 Milwaukee United States Marcus Amphitheater July 9, 2001 Minneapolis Target Center July 13, 2001 Tinley Park New World Music Theatre July 15, 2001 Clarkston DTE Energy Music Theatre July 16, 2001 July 17, 2001 Toronto Canada Molson Amphitheatre July 19, 2001 Montreal Molson Centre July 21, 2001 Burgettstown United States Post-Gazette Pavilion July 22, 2001 Hershey Hersheypark Stadium July 24, 2001 Camden Tweeter Center at the Waterfront July 25, 2001 Mansfield Tweeter Center July 27, 2001 East Rutherford Giants Stadium July 28, 2001
Box office score data Venue City Tickets sold / available Gross revenueVan Andel ArenaGrand Rapids11,805 / 12,397 (95%)$500,503BI-LO CenterGreenville11,541 / 11,541 (100%)$425,245Target CenterMinneapolis13,834 / 13,834 (100%)$677,320Hersheypark StadiumHershey22,540 / 29,100 (77%)$977,315Giants StadiumEast Rutherford107,248 / 107,248 (100%)$6,317,039TOTAL (for the concerts listed)166,968 / 174,120 (96%)$8,897,422
From the 19 shows reported from Billboard, the One Wild Night Tour grossed a total of $17,143,241 with a total attendance of 391,321.
Setlist The songs "It's My Life", "One Wild Night", "Just Older", "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Bad Medicine" and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" were played at every concert of the tour. "Livin' on a Prayer", "Wanted Dead or Alive" and "Born to Be My Baby" were left out only once. In general most songs played were from the album Crush. Like usual for Bon Jovi, the setlist changed from show to show. This is the setlist from the show at Corel Centre, Ottawa, Canada from May 17, 2001:
"One Wild Night" "You Give Love a Bad Name" "It's My Life" "Keep the Faith" (with snippets of "Sympathy for the Devil") "Livin' on a Prayer" "Born to Be My Baby" "Always" "Bed of Roses" "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" "I Got The Girl" "Just Older" "Blaze of Glory" "I'll Be There for You" "Lay Your Hands on Me" "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" "Bad Medicine" (with snippets of "Shout") Encore 1: "In These Arms" "Say It Isn't So" "Wanted Dead or Alive" Encore 2: "Tequila" "Twist and Shout"
References
External links www.drycounty.com – http://drycounty.com/tour/2001own.html