Idol Tour 2018: July 26-27: Kris Allen and the 2.1 Idol Crew Visit San Diego and Saratoga, CA

The Idol tour now heads to the west coast, starting with shows in San Diego and Saratoga (near San Jose). 

- July 26: Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego - Fantastic videos of Kris' set from the Real Concert King

July 27: Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA - Fantastic video here too plus some good scoop from VIP!

San Diego in particular has had some amazing Kris shows, so I'll link them here and you can reminisce! Come back after the shows this week for coverage!

Letting You In Tour: May 14, 2016: San Diego, CA

Photo by the Music Box

Concert

May 14, 2016

The Music Box

San Diego, CA

8:00 PM Pacific

Opening Act: Marie Miller

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Show and List Preview:
Kris and band play the Music Box in San Diego to begin the California leg of the Letting You In tour. Apparently it may be trafficky in the downtown area due to another event, so be forewarned.

Updated: Fantastic live tweets from the show! Seems like a great show and definitely the best list of the tour as of the show date. Tons of pics and videos, plus the set list, after the break...
UPDATED 05/21/2016

Throwback Thursday: Kris Allen Band Plays Anthology in San Diego, July 24, 2010

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

I had a blast covering Kris' two California shows with Andy Grammer last week. San Diego is always one of his best cities and always gives good list, which is appreciated. This morning, I saw Kris fan @damitman take a little ride via TimeHop to this San Diego Kris show and this memorable moment from it. I realized the show took place exactly four years ago, and a #ThrowbackThursday blog post was born.



The San Diego gig was actually two sold-out shows at the San Diego venue Anthology, which is known as a great place to see live gigs.

Anthology was kind enough to make a professional recording of Kris' cover of Paranoid Android. Since they took down the video, and I don't want to reveal its current whereabouts ;), here's an excellent substitute from our good friend @summerdaze_



And a nice mp3 made from the professional recording.

You can view more videos of this show on this awesome playlist compiled by @maryet34. Also check out the set lists for the first show (amazing set list by the way) and the second show.

Enjoy!

p.s. Don't forget to look forward too! We've got Horizons coming out on August 12 (pre-order on iTunes!) and a whole bunch of new and rumored shows this fall! Check out my calendar at the bottom of this page (click agenda) to see the upcoming dates! And please let me know @KrisAllenLists if you are going to any of them!

Concert: July 19, 2014: House of Blues, San Diego, CA

Concert

July 19, 2014

House of Blues

San Diego, CA

Doors 6:30 PM Pacific 

Andy Grammer (Kris opening);

Trevor Davis (Opening Act)

Show and List Preview:
The second of Kris Allen's two California shows with Andy Grammer occurs tonight! Many of our list from last night got tickets for this show too. So we should be in great shape! (One note: Lenachka tweeted a fan that she will not be at this show.)

Pre-Show/Event Press and Publicity:

• 100.7 Jack FM

The Ticket:

Photo by @ISBinLA

Photo by @summerdaze_

The Show:

Photo by @comebackstare

Set List:

1. Paul Simon (aka "Young Love" but not by me) [Video] [Video] [Video partial]
2. Everybody Just Wants to Dance (FKA "Dance") [Instagram] [Video] [Video] [mp3]
3. Beautiful and Wild [Instagram] [Instagram] [Instagram] [Video] [Video]
4. In Time [Instagram] [Instagram] [Video] [Video]
5. Team/Pompeii (Cover - Lorde/Pompeii mash-up) [Instagram] [Instagram] [Video] [Video] [Video]
6. Live Like We're Dying [Video] [Video]

• Set List Tumblr Post

After the Show:

• headonfire1105's YouTube Playlist
• Snap Crackly Pop's YouTube Playlist
• Pink Elephant Blog
• Kris Together Show Post
• MisMarissa's Photo Album

2013: The Year in Kris Allen Live Performances (Part One of Two)

Every year, I try to keep a YouTube playlist of Kris' live performances and get it out to my followers as a thank you for following me. I look for a good video of each performance and try to make sure that people who don't normally post video are included as well. This year, with the Out Alive tour, we ended up with a five part playlist (YouTube allows 200 videos per list, and I left some room on each one for missing songs.).

So for those of you who really need to catch up on Kris, you are all set! Before I list the playlists, a few acknowledgments. First and foremost, thank you to every single person who has live tweeted a Kris show, posted pictures and/or posted video. You may not even realize this, but many Kris fans truly appreciated it!

Special shout-outs to @ameeliu15 and @headonfire1105. You'll see their videos a lot. Thank goodness they went to Kris shows and were nice enough to video every song! Also special shout out to @maryet34 who makes invaluable playlists for almost every Kris show. These were super helpful for compiling my lists!

So here's Part One! This part covers the January 2013 shows in the first month of the Out Alive tour (from Killington, VT through Tulsa, OK). I'm sure those who went to a show during this time frame will remember how amazing it was that Kris even was able to perform given his terrible accident at the beginning of the year. I went to the Vienna, VA show in January and remember just feeling grateful that Kris was OK. Highlights here include his performance of Where Are You Amy (dedicated to the citizens of Newtown) in Ridgefield, CT, and awesome covers of Where Doves Cry (Prince), Breakdown (Tom Petty) and Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake). Since the East Coast loves them some Kris, you will find the Boston, Philadelphia and Vienna videos to be especially popping.


And here's Part Two! This part covers shows from Albuquerque, NM (January 31), all his west coast Out Alive shows, and goes through Aspen, CO (February 20). Yes, there are that many shows and videos! Kris was an enormous trooper considering he was recovering from a serious injury, and he deserves a ton of credit for not letting his fans down and continuing with the tour.Highlights during this playlist include some great requests (Wicked Game (Chris Isaak), Jealous Guy (John Lennon) and High and Dry (Radiohead) are my favorites). Standout shows in this part included San Diego, Agoura Hills, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

 
The playlist for Part Three runs from February 21 (Denver) through the Sophia's Heart cruise and on through the first few shows of the spring leg of the Out Alive Tour (through Plymouth, NH, April 25). Highlights here include first performances of Kris' original songs Fighters, Love Too Much and Unique, as well as some great covers of Tighten Up (The Black Keys) and In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel). Shows that stood out for me included the cruise, Chicago, Ann Arbor and Toronto.


Click here for my second installment, with the rest of the year's playlists and a look back at Kris' stats! In the meantime, please let me know your Kris highlights in the comments, and if you spot any videos I've missed, or corrections to be made, please hit me up and let me know! --KAL

Flashback Friday: San Diego 2/2/13 and Kris Plays Electric Guitar in 2009 and 2010!

On Fridays, we try to catch up on tour media around here! We'll check out a video to catch up on the Out Alive Tour. Plus I'll try to give you a bonus video - Out Alive Tour!

Out Alive Tour Video
I'm up to San Diego and wow, was that an epic show on February 2, 2013 at the Soda Bar. There's no shortage of media to choose from; so I've updated the post for that show with all of the videos and yes, mp3s! Special shout-outs go to Ocamy21, SnapCracklyPop, Kradamantium and TheRealConcertKing who all went the extra mile and made you YouTube playlists (linked on the show post), and to Summerdaze_, coming through once again with the mp3s.

I couldn't decide between these two videos to feature here so you get them both:

Kradamantium's sexy video of Kris being sexy and ad-libbing during Leave You Alone


Ocamy21's awesome video of Seven Nation Army/Shut That Door


But also be sure to hit up the show post and check out Torres singing lead on California Dreaming and the band just doing another great job on Breakdown. Plus if you are West Coast, don't miss the banter before Better With You.

Bonus Video

We also try each week to take a look back at a fun or great (or both) video that maybe got overlooked or maybe just deserves a second look! I put out a request on Twitter and Summerdaze_ asked for something featuring Kris on electric guitar. (Perhaps inspired by this picture he tweeted.) Sounds good to me and it's the least I can do to thank her for the mp3s. But what to choose?

There's the first video that comes up in search on YouTube when you input "Kris Allen Electric Guitar"


Ah his Bright Lights solo during the 2009 Idol Tour, Charlotte version. He did great on that. Here's another fun video of it from the Portland 2009 Idol Tour



Then thinking through his own songs, the ones that have always stood out to me for electric guitar were Can't Stay Away and Is It Over, but Is It Over was always more of an Andrew DeRoberts tour de force. So we will go with Can't Stay Away, back to the Fall 2010 Lifehouse tour, where the KAB had evolved the song into a big guitar jam at the end. I found 3 pretty videos for you of Kris and his red electric guitar.

Here's Westbury, NY (k21886):


Here's Washington, DC (mamaygr - disclaimer - that's my personal account so this is actually my video)


Here's Kansas City (Debbi Ronnebaum) with bonus Red Guitar (for which he puts the red guitar down and picks up a brown one, LOL.)


Enjoy!

List: February 2, 2013: Soda Bar, San Diego, CA

Soda Bar
February 2, 2013
San Diego, CA
8 pm PST


Jillette Johnson Opening



The Out Alive Tour reaches the West Coast for a string of California shows, starting with this one in San Diego.

Update: Probably the best show so far of the Out Alive Tour. Don't miss the videos linked.
Set List with Links to Videos and Media.




Plugged In - Full Band (Photos by @reiCeelove and @KrisAllen)

Set List:

1. Out Alive [Video w/ BWY too] [Video] [mp3]
2. Better With You [Video] [mp3]
3. Alright With Me [Video] [Video] [mp3]
4. Loves Me Not (with Jillette Johnson) [Video with Faith Medley too] [Video] [Video] [mp3]
5. Faith/We Are Young/Some Nights (Cover - George Michael/fun. mash-up) [Video] [Video - partial] [mp3]
6. Red Guitar [Video] [Video] [mp3]
7. California Dreamin' (Cover - The Mamas and the Papas) (Torres singing lead) - PREMIERE [Video] [Video] [Video] [mp3]
8. Paul Simon [Video] [Video] [Video] [Video] [mp3]
9. Breakdown (Cover - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) [Video] [Video] [Video] [Video] [mp3]
10. Leave You Alone (Extended version with words) [Video] [Video] [Video] [Video] [mp3]
11. Monster [Video] [Video] [mp3]
12. Rooftops [Video] [Video] [Video - partial] [mp3]
13. Live Like We're Dying [Video] [Video] [mp3]
14. Seven Nation Army (Cover - The White Stripes) [Video] [Video with Shut That Door] [Video with Shut That Door] [Video with Shut That Door] [mp3 with Shut That Door]
15. Shut That Door [Video]

Also: Happy Birthday [Video]

Opening Act: Jillette Johnson

Related Links:

• YouTube Playlists: kradamantium; ocamy24; SnapCracklyPop; TheRealConcertKing
• Kris Allen Media