American Idols Live Tour 2012 Begins Tonight!

By On 07/06/2012 · 22 Comments · In American Idol, American Idol Live 2012

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The American Idols Live tour begins tonight in Detroit MI! The concert begins at 7 pm EDT. I’ll be live blogging tonight’s concert right here, with tweets, photos and eventually videos. Stay tuned for the building set list!

Also, a big congratulations to Megan who won the Idol tour tickets! She’ll be attending tonight’s concert!

I’ll also be looking for recaps from those of you attending the concert! Send them to me at mjsbigblog at gmail dot com.

As far as the entire tour is concerned: I’ll put up a post every day for each concert, but will probably NOT live blog each concert. It really will depend on how interested you all are in that sort of thing. I found in the past that after a week or two, it was really hard to find people willing to be put on a twitter list. And honestly, there wasn’t enough interest to match the work I was putting in 4 to 5 nights a week.

How interested are you in following this year’s tour?

 
  • Anonymous

    I am interested!

  • http://twitter.com/mmcrell Michael McRell

    I think mostly that people are interested in the beginning because they want to know who sings what & where in the show they sing it….its a curiousity thing & quite frankly a competitive thing.  People have their favorites and they want their guy/girl to get the best spots….I am sure there will be a bunch of complaining as the performance order is revealed! lol!  I think the interest will wane again as soon as the first couple of live shows are over.  Rest, relax….I wouldn’t do that much work for it!! lol!

  • http://twitter.com/esqape Zach

    HOLLIE, PLEASE SING SOME CHRISTINA :)

  • Anonymous

    Why is Philip not wearing white? I’m interested to read the recaps and videos.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    P2 appears to be wearing a white t-shirt and white pants. The blue shirt may be his token “rebel” move. lol

  • fuzzywuzzy

    “How interested are you in following this year’s tour?”

    I’ll probably be interested in the first few shows to learn the set list and how each Idol is being received by the audience. The contestants who I’m interested in are Erika and Jessica.

  • Anonymous

    I’m very interested but not so much that you should have to put a ton of work into it, mj.

    I’m excited for these Top 10 kids and am anxious for details and videos from the tour!

    I hope I get to see this tour. It’s just a matter of funds as they aren’t coming close to me this time around. Boo.

  • Chris

    Detroit is the closest to me and ticket sales seem lighter vs last year. There are still good seats at Ticket master and some on Stub Hub are under face value. I’ve seen floor seats for under $40. Hope it picks up, but this is a holiday week so a lot of people go out of town. Cabins or beach houses, etc…

  • lovesickheroine

    There are rumors circulating around twitter that Jessica will perform one Tina Turner number and Beyonce. It’s pretty obvious that she might perform Proud Mary (i don’t know why would she perform this again) and as for the Beyonce number I’m guessing sweet dreams or love on top.

  • Anonymous

    The only Idol tour I’ve ever been to was S8. I don’t plan on going this year, either — just not interested in enough of them to want to sit through all their sets.

    But I hope whoever does go has lots of fun — and that the Idols themselves have a fantastic tour. Even when I’m not interested in actually going to the tour, I enjoy reading all the recaps MJ puts up on here from various posters, so hopefully she will do that again this year.

  • Anonymous

     Very interested here.  Anxious to see the crowd reaction to this group.  Looking forward mostly to seeing Phillip, Erika, Elise, Hollie, and Joshua…but am hoping they all will do a great job and have a wonderful time on stage!  

    Hope we get good video! 

  • too-cool-for-school

    I’m interested since I’m unable to go and looking forward to the attendee’s recaps and videos. Mostly looking forward to the top 5, but interested overall.

    But like you say, that probably will last for the first few shows and then I’ll be good. I don’t think you should need to live blog them all! That does sound like a lot of work. Whatever works best for you, MJ, works for me! I’ll be thankful for any and all updates on it. :)

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be interested in how it all comes together and sounds, as well as the events around the concert in various cities.  I frankly enjoy the recraps better than the sometimes bad video, although good video is always appreciated.

  • Anonymous

    yay! thank you mj!!!!! my mom and I are getting ready to have dinner and go to the show!

  • http://twitter.com/Lutrell4 Ira

    I am very interested. Each year,as the tour progresses, I enjoy watching the finalists grow and mature as artists.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I3NQHPT3NA6VGKK22RCMTGOCII Tiffany

    I like a couple of beginning tours and then  toward the end when they have really got it down, a few ending tours. Most of the videos I see of the tours the audio is bad or someone near the person recording keeps talking.   I love that dress Skylar has on in the pic. At least they got P2 out of the gray shirt, which he also wore on the July 4th gig. 

  • http://kristentheyellowlab.blogspot.com/ ZsusK

    I’ll be at the Nashville concert in mid-August. I’ll be glad to tweet if you need someone for a twitter list. 

  • Anonymous

    Looking forward to tonight’s live blog and recaps. I’m still on the fence about going to the concert this year so I’m eager to see the setlist. This is the first time I even thought about going to the tour since season 7.

    There are still really good seats available from TicketMaster for the DC show in August.  I hope their sales are at least respectable.

  • Karen C

    I’m interested, at least for the first couple of shows, and then if anything different happens. I’m going to one in September in CT.

  • http://twitter.com/newbornstarr Wally.

     She said she’d be performing all  new songs; so I don’t think it’llbe Proud Mary

  • Anonymous

    I agree…..there’ s nothing like a good recrap.

  • http://www.askaticket.com/concerts/american-idols-live-tickets/ American Idol Live Tickets

    i would love to join this tour… is there any concert in San Diego ?