The Getaway World Tour

The Getaway World Tour

Tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers
File:RHCPREADINGLEEDS.jpg Promotional image for the band's August 2016 at the Reading Festival and Leeds Festival
Associated album	The Getaway
Start date	June 4, 2016 (2016-06-04)
Legs	3
No. of shows	48
Red Hot Chili Peppers concert chronology

The Getaway World Tour is a current concert tour by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers that will be in support of their eleventh studio album, The Getaway which will be released on June 17, 2016. It marks the first time since June 2014 that the band has toured. The tour began with benefit shows and North American festival dates in February 2016 with a summer festival tour with dates in Europe, Asia and North America starting in June 2016. The headlining tour to support the album will begin in Europe in September 2016 and continue into 2017. Like the previous two tours, Chris Warren will serve as a backing keyboard player while Nate Walcott will join the tour as a pianist.

Pre-tour benefit shows and North American festivals

Prior the summer festival dates in June 2016 and start of their headlining tour in September 2016, the band performed at a few benefit and North American festivals. On February 5, 2016, the band performed in Los Angeles at the FEEL THE BERN political fund-raiser in support of 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. "Nobody Weird Like Me" made its return to the set list for the first time since the 2006–07 Stadium Arcadium World Tour. The following night, they performed at a private, invitation-only Super Bowl 50 party in San Francisco called "DirecTV Super Saturday Night Co-Hosted by Mark Cuban’s AXS TV" where they played "Aeroplane" for the first time since July 1997. The band also performed covers of "Cracked Actor" and "Starman" in tribute to their friend David Bowie, who died the previous month. On April 13, Flea played the national anthem before Kobe Bryant's final NBA game. That night, the Chili Peppers played four song set at a unannounced private show in Los Angeles, CA in support of Sean Parker and The Parker Foundation Launch for The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy The band performed a sixteen song set at the Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 24 where they were joined by The Meters for a jam. On April 29, 2016, Chad Smith and Will Ferrell will host the Red Hot Benefit Comedy + Music Show & Quinceanera. The benefit will featured a performance by the Chili Peppers along with comedy acts selected by Ferrell and Funny or Die. A portion of the proceeds will go to Ferrell's Cancer for College and Smith's Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It was announced in March 2016 that the band headline the 25th anniversary Lollapalooza festival in July. The band's May 14, 2016 performance at the KROQ Weenie Roast was suddenly cancelled prior to them going on stage due to Kiedis suffering stomach pains. The following show, an album preview show for The Getaway on May 17, 2016, was postponed until May 26, 2016. "Dark Necessities", the lead single from The Getaway, made its live debut on May 22, 2016. New songs "Go Robot", "Sick Love", "The Ticonderoga" all made their live debuts on May 26, 2016 at the album preview show for iHeartRadio. "The Getaway", the title track to the new album, was released by the band on May 26, 2016 however unknown at the time to fans, the band had teased the song live during their performance of "Give It Away" at Super Bowl 50 party in San Francisco back in February. The song made its full live debut on May 29, 2016.

Anthony Kiedis health scare

On May 14, the band were forced to cancel their headlining slot at the annual KROQ Weenie Roast as Kiedis was rushed to the hospital prior to the band appearing on stage due to severe stomach pain. Flea alongside, Smith and Klinghoffer made an announcement on the stage as they were due to appear. It is unknown whether upcoming shows would be affected as a result Kiedis' mother Peggy posted the following morning on Facebook that "Anthony will be OK. No surgery is needed. I will keep you updated, I promise" It was confirmed that Kiedis was suffering from intestinal flu and was expected to make a full recovery soon however the band was forced to postpone their iHeartRadio album preview show on May 17, 2016 and has rescheduled it for May 26, 2016. The band returned to the stage on May 22, 2016 in Columbus, OH. According to Chad Smith, Kiedis had suffered from the stomach flu a few weeks earlier as well. In a May 20, 2016 interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada, his first since being released from the hospital, Kiedis said that his illness was brought on by an "inflammation in my guts" which he said was complicated by a recent stomach virus and existing scar tissue from previous hernia operations which required his stomach being pumped at the hospital due to his food not being able to properly digest. "That becomes an incredibly painful situation where you get a fever and pass out... Lo an behold, I'm on the mend" He went on to say "so it turned out to be a good thing, albeit painful and very sad to have to cancel a show. We don't really do that. I'd rather play deathly ill than not play at all, but in this particular instance, I was starting to go down, as in to the ground, so I got rushed to the hospital, got some help, and now I get to figure things out."

World tour

Promotional poster for the band's concert at Nova Rock in June 2016

The Getaway World Tour got underway on June 4, 2016 with festival dates in Europe, Asia and North America which will last until August 2016. The band will then begin their own headling world tour in support of the album starting September 1, 2016 and is expected to last into 2017.

Singer Anthony Kiedis in a May 5, 2016 interview discussed touring and said they were very excited to have a lot of new songs to play. Kiedis said "this being our second record with Josh, it feels a lot more fulfilling. And, it’s always great to have a job as a musician. It’s great to be in this band. We love seeing the world. But to have all these new songs at our disposal for live shows makes it feel like ‘Let’s go. Let’s go. We have a mission now. You do this incredible thing in the studio and then you go practice and rehearse and make sure you can play this stuff live and then you go see the world. You know everywhere; from Asia to South America to Europe and Eastern Europe and hopefully the Middle East and Africa and you know, you give this music life to people far far away that it means something to and you have this communal experience together. And when you just can’t take it for another day and you’re beat and you’re haggard and you’re tired and you want to collapse and you come home and you gather some new life experience and start writing a little bit and Flea sits down at the piano and says, ‘Hey, I have these chords. What do you think about these chords? And I say, hmmm, I hear melody in there and you start it all over again."Drummer Chad Smith said on May 17, 2016 that the band would be playing in Europe for pretty much the remainder of the year once the tour starts which likely means North American dates would not happen until 2017.

A day after it's release, "We Turn Red" made it's live debut on June 10, 2016 at the Pinkpop festival and during the opening encore jam, Kiedis took over Flea's bass while Flea played keyboards and Klinghoffer played piano. The jam included a tease of The Beatles' Hey Bulldog.

One June 13, 2016, in a pre-taped segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden, the band will appear in the show's popular Carpool Karaoke segment. On June 14, 2016, three days prior to the release of The Getaway, the band will play a television performance at Le Grand Journal in France

Tour dates

Warm up - Benefit shows and festivals

Date	Location	Country	Event	Venue
North America
February 5, 2016	Los Angeles, CA	United States	Feel The Bern Benefit	Ace Hotel
February 6, 2016	San Francisco, CA		DirecTV Super Saturday Night	Pier 70
April 13, 2016	Los Angeles, CA		Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Gala	Home of Sean Parker
April 24, 2016	New Orleans, LA		Jazz & Heritage Festival	Fair Grounds Race Course
April 29, 2016	Los Angeles, CA		Will Ferrell & Chad Smith's Red Hot Benefit Comedy + Music Show & Quinceañera	Shrine Auditorium
May 22, 2016	Columbus, OH		Rock on the Range	Mapfre Stadium
May 26, 2016	Burbank, CA		iHeartRadio Theater	AT&T LIVE
May 29, 2016	Napa, CA		BottleRock Napa Valley	Napa Valley Expo

Summer festival tour

Date	Location	Country	Event	Venue
Europe
June 4, 2016	Mendig	Germany	Rock am Ring	Mendig Air Base
June 5, 2016	Nuremberg		Rock im Park	Zeppelinfeld
June 8, 2016	Interlaken	Switzerland	Greenfield Festival	-
June 10, 2016	Landgraaf	Netherlands	Pinkpop	Megaland
June 12, 2016	Nickelsdorf	Austria	Novarock	Pannonia Fields
June 14, 2016	Paris	France	Le Grand Journal (Canal+)	Studios Rive Gauche
June 29, 2016	Roskilde	Denmark	Roskilde Festival	-
June 30, 2016	Gdynia	Poland	Open'er Festival	Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport
July 2, 2016	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter	Werchter Festival Grounds
July 6, 2016	Kiev	Ukraine	U-Park Festival	Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex
July 9, 2016	Moscow	Russia	Park Live Festival	Otkrytiye Arena
July 10, 2016	Perthshire	Scotland	T in the Park	Strathallan Castle
North America
July 15, 2016	Ottawa	Canada	Ottawa Bluesfest	LeBreton Flats
July 16, 2016	Quebec	Canada	Quebec City Summer Festival	Plains of Abraham
Asia
July 22, 2016	Ansan	South Korea	Jisan Valley Rock Festival	Jisan Resort
July 24, 2016	Yuzawa	Japan	Fuji Rock Festival	Naeba Ski Resort
North America
July 29, 2016	Montreal	Canada	Osheaga Festival	Parc Jean-Drapeau
July 30, 2016	Chicago, Il	United States	Lollapalooza	Grant Park
Europe
August 25, 2016	Belfast	Northern Ireland	Tennent's Vital	Boucher Road Playing Fields
August 26, 2016	Reading	England	Reading Festival	Little John's Farm
August 27, 2016	Leeds		Leeds Festival	Bramham Park

Headlining tour

Date	City	Country	Venue
Europe
September 1, 2016	Budapest	Hungary	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena
September 2, 2016
September 4, 2016	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena
September 8, 2016	Oslo	Norway	Telenor Arena
September 10, 2016	Stockholm	Sweden	Tele2 Arena
September 13, 2016	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Arena
September 14, 2016
September 27, 2016	Madrid	Spain	Barclaycard Center
September 28, 2016
October 1, 2016	Barcelona		Palau Sant Jordi
October 2, 2016
October 5, 2016	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion
October 6, 2016
October 8, 2016	Bologna	Italy	Unipol Arena
October 10, 2016	Turin		Pala Alpitour
October 11, 2016
October 13, 2016	Montpellier	France	Park&Suites Arena
October 15, 2016	Paris		AccorHotels Arena
October 16, 2016
October 18, 2016

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled and postponed concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation/postponement

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason/Additional Info
North America
May 14, 2016	Irvine, CA	KROQ Weenie Roast	Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre	Kiedis was rushed to hospital prior to show due to stomach pains
May 17, 2016	Burbank, CA	iHeartRadio Theater	AT&T LIVE	Kiedis recovering from intestinal flu - rescheduled for May 26

Songs performed

Originals

Song	Album
"Police Helicopter"	The Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Me and My Friends"	The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
"Skinny Sweaty Man" (tease)
"Magic Johnson" (tease)	Mother's Milk
"Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder)
"Nobody Weird Like Me"
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik"	Blood Sugar Sex Magik
"Give It Away"
"If You Have to Ask"
"Sir Psycho Sexy"
"Suck My Kiss"
"They're Red Hot" (Robert Johnson)
"Under the Bridge"
"Soul to Squeeze"	Coneheads: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Aeroplane"	One Hot Minute
"Around the World"	Californication
"Scar Tissue"
"Californication"
"Otherside"
"Right on Time"
"By the Way"	By the Way
"Can't Stop"
"Universally Speaking"
"Snow ((Hey Oh))"	Stadium Arcadium
"Dani California"
"Wet Sand"
"Ethiopia"	I'm with You
"Factory of Faith"
"The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
"Dark Necessities"	The Getaway
"The Getaway"
"Go Robot"
"Sick Love"
"This Ticonderoga"
"We Turn Red"

Cover songs

Song	Artist
"Bulletproof (tease - sung by Flea and Anthony with Chad on drums)	George Clinton
"Cracked Actor"	David Bowie
"Hey Bulldog" (tease - Anthony on bass, Josh on piano)	The Beatles
"Ladies' Night" (tease - sung by Flea)	Kool and the Gang
"Starman"	David Bowie
"Sweet Home Alabama" (tease - performed by Josh)	Lynyrd Skynyrd
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" (tease - sung by Josh)	The Smiths
"Till There Was You" (tease - sung by Flea)	Meredith Willson
"What Is Soul?" (tease)	Parliament Funkadelic

Personnel

• Flea – bass, backing vocals, keyboards
• Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals, bass (on 6/10/16)
• Josh Klinghoffer – guitar, backing vocals, piano
• Chad Smith – drums

Additional musicians

• Chris Warren – keyboards, drum synthesizer
• Nate Walcott – piano

Guest Musicians

Guest	Date
George Porter, Jr. (The Meters)	April 24
Ziggy Modeliste (The Meters)
Ivan Neville (Dumpstaphunk)
Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)	April 29
Stewart Copeland (The Police)
Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe)
Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac)
Fred Armisen
Josh Freese (Devo)
Will Ferrell

External links

• Red Hot Chili Peppers website
• The Side: Red Hot Chili Peppers Touring History