Love Sux Tour

The Love Sux Tour[1] (originally titled Tour 2022 and the Bite Me Tour[2]) was the seventh concert tour by Canadian recording artist, Avril Lavigne. The tour launched in support of her seventh studio album Love Sux (2022). The tour began in Orillia, Canada, on April 30, 2022, and concluded in London, England, on May 10, 2023.

Love Sux Tour
Tour by Avril Lavigne
Promotional poster for tour (2022)
Associated albumLove Sux
Start dateApril 30, 2022 (2022-04-30)
End dateMay 10, 2023 (2023-05-10)
Legs4
No. of shows22 in North America
3 in South America
5 in Asia
19 in Europe
48 total
Avril Lavigne concert chronology

Background

Following her Head Above Water Tour in 2019, Lavigne announced shows in Europe, in October 2021. The dates were composed of canceled shows from 2020 and 2021, due to the pandemic. It was also reported shows in southeast Asia for May 2022,[3] but those shows were cancelled. Following the release of the album's lead single, the singer revealed concerts in Canada, her first in a decade.[4]

Alternative rap artists Mod Sun and Grandson will serve as the opening acts for these dates.[5]

One dollar from each concert ticket purchased will be donated to the Avril Lavigne Foundation.[6]

The tour was originally slated to start February 2022, but were rescheduled to the spring.[7] European dates were postponed 2023, citing venue and travel restrictions, related to the ongoing pandemic.[8] During the tour, Lavigne will also have performances at various music festivals including: Boston Calling,[9] When We Were Young[10] Rock in Rio[11] the Firefly Music Festival[12] and the iHeartRadio Music Festival.[13]

Setlist
Lavigne performing at Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario.

The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on May 10, 2022.[14] It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Cannonball"
  2. "Bite Me"
  3. "What the Hell"
  4. "Here's to Never Growing Up"
  5. "Complicated"
  6. "My Happy Ending"
  7. "Smile"
  8. "Losing Grip"
  9. "Flames" (performed with Mod Sun)
  10. "Love It When You Hate Me"
  11. "Love Sux"
  12. "Girlfriend"
  13. "Bois Lie"
  14. "Sk8er Boi"
Encore
  1. "Head Above Water"
  2. "I'm with You"

Tour dates
List of concerts, showing date, city, country and venue
Date City Country Venue Opening act(s)
North America[15][16][17][18][19][20]
April 30, 2022 Orillia Canada Casino Rama Entertainment Centre The Beaches
May 6, 2022 Quebec City Videotron Centre Mod Sun
All Time Low
May 7, 2022[lower-alpha 1] Laval Place Bell Mod Sun
Grandson
All Time Low
May 9, 2022 Ottawa TD Place Arena Mod Sun
All Time Low
May 10, 2022 London Start.ca Performance Stage Mod Sun
Grandson
May 12, 2022 Windsor The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
May 13, 2022 Toronto Coca-Cola Coliseum
May 17, 2022 Winnipeg Canada Life Centre
May 18, 2022 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre
May 19, 2022 Edmonton Rogers Place
May 21, 2022 Calgary Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
May 22, 2022
May 24, 2022 Vancouver Thunderbird Sports Centre
May 25, 2022 Victoria Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
May 27, 2022[lower-alpha 2] Boston United States Harvard Athletic Complex N/A
June 1, 2022[lower-alpha 3] Moncton Canada Avenir Centre The Beaches
June 2, 2022[lower-alpha 4] Halifax Scotiabank Centre
South America[22][23][24][25]
September 5, 2022 Lima Peru Arena Perú Alther
September 7, 2022 São Paulo Brazil Espaço Unimed Day Limns
September 9, 2022[lower-alpha 5] Rio de Janeiro Parque dos Atletas —
North America[27]
September 22, 2022[lower-alpha 6] Dover United States Dover Motor Speedway —
September 24, 2022[lower-alpha 7] Las Vegas Area15
October 22, 2022[lower-alpha 8] Winchester Las Vegas Festival Grounds
October 23, 2022[lower-alpha 8]
October 29, 2022[lower-alpha 8]
Asia[31]
November 7, 2022 Yokohama Japan National Convention Hall —
November 9, 2022 Tokyo Tokyo Garden Theatre
November 10, 2022
November 11, 2022 Nagoya Aichi Sky Expo Hall A
November 14, 2022 Osaka Intex Osaka
Europe[lower-alpha 9][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][25]
April 12, 2023 Paris France Zénith Paris Girlfriends
Phem
April 14, 2023 Amsterdam Netherlands AFAS Live
April 15, 2023 Berlin Germany Verti Music Hall
April 17, 2023 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
April 18, 2023 Offenbach Stadthalle Offenbach
April 20, 2023 Munich Kulturhalle Zenith
April 21, 2023 Zürich Switzerland The Hall
April 23, 2023 Padua Italy Arena Spettacoli
April 24, 2023 Milan Mediolanum Forum
April 26, 2023 Prague Czech Republic Tipsport Arena
April 27, 2023 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
April 28, 2023 Stuttgart Germany Porsche-Arena
April 30, 2023 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena
May 3, 2023 Cologne Germany Palladium
May 4, 2023 Brussels Belgium Forest National
May 6, 2023 Manchester England O2 Apollo
May 9, 2023 London Alexandra Palace
May 10, 2023

Cancelled shows
Date City Country Venue Reason
November 1, 2022 Hong Kong AsiaWorld–Arena COVID-19 pandemic in Asia[39]
November 3, 2022 Quezon City Philippines Araneta Coliseum

Notes
  1. Originally May 1, 2022
  2. Part of Boston Calling Music Festival.[21]
  3. Originally May 3, 2022
  4. Originally May 4, 2022
  5. Part of Rock in Rio.[26]
  6. Part of Firefly Music Festival[28]
  7. Part of iHeartRadio Music Festival[29]
  8. Part of When We Were Young[30]
  9. The European leg was originally intended to take place from February 26 to March 31, 2022, but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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