Tears for Fears tour brings them to Toronto’s Budweiser Stage this summer

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TORONTO, April 11, 2023 – Last week, iconic 80s British duo, Tears For Fears, announced that they will resume their North American Tipping Point tour this summer — The Tipping Point Tour Part II – with special guest Cold War Kids. Produced by Live Nation, the second phase of the Tears For Fears tour kicks off on June 23 at Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlantic City, NJ making more stops across North America including New York, Laval, Houston, Seattle, and a late-June show at Budweiser Stage in Toronto, before wrapping up in Los Angeles, CA at the Hollywood Bowl on August 2.

Tears For Fears 2023 North American Tour Dates: 

• Fri Jun 23 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
• Sat Jun 24 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
• Mon Jun 26 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
• Thu Jun 29 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
• Fri Jun 30 – Laval, QC – Place Bell
• Sun Jul 02 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
• Wed Jul 05 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
• Fri Jul 07 – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheatre
• Sat Jul 08 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
• Tue Jul 11 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheater
• Thu Jul 13 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre STL
• Fri Jul 14 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
• Sun Jul 16 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
• Mon Jul 17 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
• Thu Jul 20 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
• Sat Jul 22 – Portland, OR – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
• Mon Jul 24 – Vancouver, BC – Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
• Wed Jul 26 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
• Thu Jul 27 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
• Sat Jul 29 – Sacramento, CA – Toyota Amphitheater
• Tue Aug 01 – Palm Springs, CA – Acrisure Arena
• Wed Aug 02 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl

TICKETS:  Tickets will be available starting with artist presale (details below) beginning Tuesday, April 4. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, April 7 at 10am Local Time on TearsForFears.com.

Tears For Fears are one of the most iconic bands of the ‘80s, selling over 30 million albums worldwide with singles such as “Shout,” “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” “Mad World,” “Change,” “Pale Shelter,” “Sowing The Seeds Of Love,” and “Woman In Chains” acknowledged as classics.

In 2022, Tears For Fears picked up right where they left off releasing their latest studio album The Tipping Point which garnered critical acclaim and has already become a fan favourite.

Get caught up with Tears For Fears

In case you have forgotten or are new to their music, Tears For Fears are the dynamic duo of Roland Orzabal (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Curt Smith (vocals, bass, keyboards) formed in Bath, England 1981.  With 30 million albums sold worldwide, performing to countless sold-out audiences, and winning various awards, the band represent an inimitable intersection of pop palatability, clever and cognisant lyricism, guitar bombast, and new wave innovation.

Their 1983 debut The Hurting yielded anthems such as “Mad World,” “Change,” and “Pale Shelter,” reaching RIAA Gold status in the United States, and brought them to Toronto for a sold-out show at Massey Hall the same year.

1985’s Songs from the Big Chair became a massive watershed moment for the group and music at large. Boasting the signature BRIT Award-winning “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Shout,” “Head over Heels,” “Mothers Talk” and “I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording),” it went quintuple-platinum and captured #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Slant dubbed it one of, “The Best Albums of the 1980s,” it was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and Consequence of Sound awarded it a rare A+ rating in a 20-year retrospective.1989’s Seeds of Love proved to be Orzabal and Smith’s last collaboration together until Everybody Loves A Happy Ending in 2004, which rekindled the creative fire between them. The band engaged in a three-year touring whirlwind across North America, Japan, South Korea, Manila, and South America beginning in 2010.

 
In 2004 TFF released Everybody Loves A Happy Ending, and since then, the band has toured extensively, including a sold-out UK arena tour.

2013 saw Tears For Fears return with their first recorded music in a decade: a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.” The band returned once more in 2017 with the Rule The World best of collection, which once more catapulted the band back to the upper echelon of the UK album charts. The duo’s DNA remains embedded within three generations of artists on both subtle and overt levels. Quietly casting a shadow over rock, hip-hop, electronic dance music, indie, and beyond, The Weeknd infused “Pale Shelter” into Starboy’s “Secrets,” David Guetta sampled “Change” for “Always,” and Drake utilized “Ideas as Opiates” as the foundation for “Lust For Life,” while Ally Brooke Hernandez, Adam Lambert, and Gary Jules recorded popular covers of “Mad World” and Disturbed took on “Shout,” and that’s only to name a few. Lorde cut a haunting cover of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” for the Soundtrack of the blockbuster The Hunger Games – Catching Fire, which Tears For Fears gleefully would use as intro music live and thus bring everything full circle.
 
Meanwhile, classic songs by the duo figure prominently everywhere from The Wire and Donnie Darko to Straight Outta Compton and Mr. Robot. Long before they became a cultural cornerstone Tears For Fears simply were just two school friends growing up in Bath, Somerset UK.

About their new album The Tipping Point, February 25, 2022

Fast forward to February 2022, with the release of The Tipping Point via Concord Records/Universal Music Canada, their first studio album in almost 20 years debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top album sales chart.

When asked “why make a new album now?” Roland Orzabal says, “Before everything went so right with this album, everything first had to go wrong, it took years, but something happens when we put our heads together. We’ve got this balance, this push-me-pull-you thing – and it works really well.” Curt Smith agrees, “If that balance doesn’t work on a Tears For Fears album, the whole thing just doesn’t work. To put it in simple terms, a Tears For Fears record and what people perceive to be the sound of Tears For Fears – is the stuff we can both agree on.”

Joining Orzabal and Smith on the album is their longtime collaborator, Charlton Pettus, along with producers and songwriters, Sacha Skarbek and Florian Reutter.

“When you’ve known each other as long as we have, and have worked together as long as we have, there’s a bond there that becomes familial. So, it’s different from a friendship,” Smith says. “And it’s different from a marriage. It’s literally like that’s your brother. It’s the kind of bond that you can’t really break. It can fall apart at times. You separate for periods, which I also think is healthy, really. But in the end, we always seem to find each other again.”

With The Tipping Point along with the 40th anniversary of The Hurting and more touring this summer, Orzabal and Smith remain as strong as ever, while yet another generation gets ready to Shout with them all over again.

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