The tour kicked off July 20 in Bristow, Virginia and runs through September 23.

Williams kicked off his Close Encounters World Tour in South Africa in April 2006, when he finished his European leg of the tour.

The supporting tour kicked off in Amsterdam, and it included a performance at the Glastonbury festival before coming to an end in Sheffield.

The national tour kicked off June 27, 2008 at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Georgia and will benefit Gulf Coast musicians, dancers, and singers affected by Hurricane Katrina.

The tour kicked off in Buffalo, NY on July 21, with the final show in Toronto, Ont., on November 23.

Danzig and Googy clashed frequently during the tour, and after a heated argument at a McDonald's restaurant Danzig kicked Googy out of the band, delaying their plans to record their next EP.

Reznor subsequently posted a blog entry announcing that Jane's Addiction would accompany Nine Inch Nails on their summer 2009 tour, which kicked off on May 8 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

In April 2010 Classic Fantastic was released to commence a Europe-wide tour which kicked off in Manchester.

The tour kicked off at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey.

Gladys Knight stated in her memoirs that Ross kicked her off the tour because the audience's reception to Knight's soulful performance overshadowed her.

On 23 June 2009, Poison kicked off their 42-city Summer 2009 tour in Camden, NJ with Def Leppard and Cheap Trick.

* Both D12 and Esham were kicked out of the 2001 tour.

The tour kicked off in Greece, in Thessaloniki at the Principal Club Theater on October 26, 2007.

Kajagoogoo are currently writing new material following the completion of their " Space Cadet " tour, which kicked off in Liverpool, England on 17 September 2009, and ended in Southampton on 1 October.

B ' z finished their work in 2000 with the appearance on the TV show Music Station Special and would start the rehearsal for the tour " B ' z Live-Gym 2001-Eleven -" which kicked off on 26 February, in the following year.

The tour kicked off 3 July at Hakodate Shimin Kaikan and finished at Nagisa-en on 21 September, which was ironically the day of their debut, having a total of 23 shows all together.

B ' z kicked off the tour " B ' z Live-Gym 2006 " Monster's Garage "" from Amami Bunka Center on 2 July, having 17 shows in all, including 5 big domes in 11 locations and 450, 000 audience members all together.

Following the reissues in 2005, Mascis, Barlow and Murph finally reunited to play on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on April 15, 2005, and in June that year, they kicked off a tour of Europe.

A tour to support the album kicked off at The House of Blues, in Hollywood, CA on April 2, 2011, followed by several dates in Japan in the same month.

The Enz kicked off 1977 with a new ( non-album ) single " Another Great Divide ", coinciding with their return to Australia / New Zealand in January 1977 for the " Courting the Act " tour.

Shortly before the tour kicked off, the group announced they would be taking an extended break after the completion of the tour.

Stage preparations and dress rehearsals took place at the Disney Studios, Burbank, California, before the tour kicked off in Japan.

But as the tour reached Pensacola a month ago, Player was leading Palmer in official winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the rest of the field was somewhere off in nowhere.

When they were forced to, Central Worlds shrugged its shoulders, arranged a tour of the Laboratory Schools and set the tour off to a big start by showing the members case histories, complete with photographs.

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

This lineup assembled for this tour contained East Bay Ray, Peligro, Greer, and bassist Greg Reeves replacing Flouride, who was taking " personal time off " from the band.

Diocletian broke off his tour of the Eastern provinces soon thereafter.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

While on tour again in the UK in 1965, Orbison broke his foot falling off a motorcycle in front of thousands of screaming fans at a race track, and performed his show that evening in a cast.

At approximately 9: 40 AM Eastern Daylight Time on April 27, 2012 Enterprise took off from Dulles International Airport en-route to a fly-by over the Hudson River, New York's JFK International Airport, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, and several other landmarks in the city ; in an approximately 45-minute " final tour ".

; Gold Dust Orchestral Tour: Tori Amos kicks off her 2012 tour in Rotterdam on October 1.

Dates are also now being advertised for a continuation of the ' In Your Dreams ' tour, kicking off in June 2012 and calling at several US cities.

The offer was withdrawn, and after Howard, Fine and Howard learned of the reason, they left Healy to form their own act, which quickly took off with a tour of the theater circuit.

He took two weeks off from his tour to record what would be his fourth studio album, a big band album.

In 1875, Edward set off for India on an extensive eight-month tour of the sub-continent.

On 31 January 1952, despite advice from those close to him, he went to London Airport to see off Princess Elizabeth, who was going on her tour of Australia via Kenya.

The tour of 1985 was terminated prematurely because of thawing ; as early as 22: 00 in the evening skaters were taken off the ice.

After a warm-up tour they taped a TV-special predominantly miming tracks off their yet-to-release fourth album ( recorded with René ) including their latest single Pa about a father -/ son-dispute with the former mellowed out and the latter still carrying on regardless.

After a successful 4-Day Carnival Cruise show in the Bahamas alongside Post-grunge band Sponge it was announced that the band would kick off an official tour for the Spring of 2009, playing in venues along the California coastline, including the notorious Key Club, as well as various cities in Canada and North Carolina.