The hottest summer tour of 2023 is back in the U.S. following a tour across Australia and the U.K. P!nk’s “Summer Carnival” tour stopped at Petco Park Home of the San Diego Padres September 11th. Last year P!nk toured across the U.S. playing football stadiums and is back doing baseball stadiums. This show took place just three days after P!nk’s 45th birthday. There is no other artist doing what she does.
P!nk has won multiple Grammys, Billboard Music Awards, MTV VMA’s and many more since the release of her debut album Can’t Take Me Home, which went 2x Platinum followed by the 5x Platinum Missundaztood. Her next seven albums would reach between Gold and 3x Platinum. Opening the show was The Script and another iconic female artist Sheryl Crow.
Back in 1987-88, Crow was a backup singer for Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous Tour” at the age of 25 and on September 11th, 1988 performed with Jackson for a crowd of 125,000 in Liverpool, England. Crow played a set including all her hits like “If It Makes You Happy,” “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up the Sun,” and “Everyday Is a Winding Road.”
P!nk kicked off her show with one of the biggest hits from 2001, top 10 single “Get This Party Started” from her second album. P!nk’s last tour before the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Beautiful Trauma World Tour featured her hanging from a giant chandelier prop during “Get This Party Started.” For Summer Carnival, P!nk starts off the show in a giant mouth at the top and center of the massive stage and drops down then goes up several times before landing onstage but she does go airborne several other times throughout the night and the beginning of the show.
The setlist had all the hits like “Raise Your Glass,” “Just Like a Pill,” “Just Give Me a Reason with Fun’s Nate Ruess on the screens for his vocals,” “F**ckin’ Perfect,” and “Blow Me (One Last Kiss). P!nk’s also covered Pat Benatar’s Heartbreaker” mixed with Just Like Fire. Benatar opened for P!nk last year in San Diego, CA at Snapdragon Stadium. The show was broken into four different segments.
The third part of the show featured P!nk’s guitarist of 23 years Justin Derrico alongside her for acoustic versions of “Please Don’t Leave Me,” and “Don’t Let Me Get Me.” P!nk received a few gifts from the audience including a necklace, glitter flowers, and a special jacket of art of her and her father Jim Moore together which she wore for the next song “When I Get there” written as a tribute to her father a Vietnam veteran who passed away in 2021.
For the grand finale which was “So What” P!nk flew all across the stadium to the front, back, sides, up high and had a few pillars to stand on around the field level.
P!nk has an all-star band including guitarist Justin Derrico, bassist Eva Gardner, keyboardists Adriana Balic and Jason Chapman, and newest member since 2023 Brian Frasier Moore who was on Madonna’s MDNA and Rebel Heart tours, Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 tour and played the superbowl with both artists.
