FanMail Tour

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FanMail Tour
Tour by TLC
Dates 1999 -
January 29, 2000
Legs 2
Shows 27
3 (Canada)
24 (United States) 3 Cancelled
6 (Asia) Cancelled

The FanMail Tour was a concert tour performed by the American pop/R&B group TLC. In support of their album FanMail, the stadium and arena tour ran in 1999 and 2000. It covered the United States and Canada. There were six dates sceduled for Asia, but all dates were cancelled due to T-Boz's illness. During this time, there were many rumors that the group was going to break up.

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[edit] History

TLC went on a nationwide tour simply named The FanMail Tour after their album. While the first leg of the tour sold poorly and made the group lose 500,000 dollars, most of the second leg of the tour was sold out. The group had a PayPerView special of their tour, called TLC: Sold Out, which at the time became PayPerView's highest grossing televised special. TLC performed all their hits. The tightly choreographed concert featured a five-piece band, seven dancers, plenty of cybertechnics, and a giant-screen android named "Virtual Vic-E". [1] TLC had donated an exclusive track to MP3.com, who sponsored the tour, that fans could download from the company's website for free. In exchange, MP3.com donated ten cents to the Sickle Cell Disease Association (T-Boz was a spokesperson and suffered from the disease) each time the song was downloaded.[2] At the time, TLC had to address the incessant rumors that they were breaking up. Lisa Lopes told the New York Daily News, "A lot of people are under the impression that I'm leaving the group. That's not the case..." She also added, "The magic of the group has everything to do with the chemistry between myself, Tionne and Chilli...with TLC, it's like, if there wasn't something going wrong, it just wouldn't be right." [3] The tour wrapped up in their hometown of Atlanta, the day before the Super Bowl took place. Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell gave the group a key to the city and declared January 29 "TLC Day."

[edit] Set list

  1. "FanMail"
  2. "Silly Ho"
  3. "If They Knew"
  4. "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg"
  5. "What About Your Friends"
  6. "Baby-Baby-Baby"
  7. "Creep"
  8. "Red Light Special"
  9. "Crazy" - Left Eye Solo
  10. "Come On Down" - Chilli Solo
  11. "I Miss You So Much" - Chilli Solo
  12. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" - T-Boz Solo
  13. "Touch Myself" - T-Boz solo
  14. "Dear Lie" - T-Boz Solo
  15. "Unpretty" *-TLC picked fans to bring on stage and sing with them-*
  16. "I'm Good At Being Bad"
  17. "My Life"
  18. "Shout"
  19. "Waterfalls"
  20. "What It Ain't" (Atlanta Show only)
  21. "No Scrubs"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Vocals

[edit] Opening Acts

[edit] Tour Dates

  1. Oct. 22 Toronto Air Canada Centre
  2. Oct. 23 Montreal Forum
  3. Oct. 25 Ottawa Corel Centre
  4. Oct. 27 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena
  5. Oct. 29 Dayton Nutter Center
  6. Oct. 31 Baltimore Arena
  7. Nov. 2 Greenville BI-LO Center
  8. Nov. 5 Raleigh Entertainment & Sports
  9. Nov. 7 Hampton Coliseum
  10. Nov. 9 Toledo Savage Hall
  11. Nov. 12 Hartford Civic Center
  12. Nov. 13 Providence Civic Center
  13. Nov. 15 Albany Pepsi Arena
  14. Nov. 18 Buffalo Marine Midland
  15. Nov. 20 Pittsburgh Civic Arena
  16. Nov. 22 Minneapolis Target Center
  17. Nov. 24 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse
  18. Jan. 7 Anaheim Pond
  19. Jan. 5 Oakland Coliseum
  20. Jan. 10 Seattle Key Arena
  21. Jan. 11 Portland Rose Garden
  22. Jan. 14 Chicago Allstate Arena - CANCELLED
  23. Jan. 16 Palace of Auburn Hills
  24. Jan. 18 Cleveland CSU - CANCELLED
  25. Jan. 20 Boston Fleet Center
  26. Jan. 21 New York Madison Square Garden
  27. Jan. 23 Washington, D.C. MCI Center
  28. Jan. 25 Philadelphia First Union Center - CANCELLED
  29. Jan. 27 Ft. Lauderdale - National Car - CANCELLED
  30. Jan. 29 Atlanta Philips Arena
  31. Feb. 27 Nagoya Rainbow Hall - CANCELLED
  32. March 1 Osaka Osaka-jo Hall - CANCELLED
  33. March 2 Osaka Jo - CANCELLED
  34. March 4 Yokohama Yokohama Arena - CANCELLED
  35. March 6 Tokyo Yoyogi - CANCELLED
  36. March 8 Tokyo Yoyogi - CANCELLED