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BY GARY GALBRAITH

(With Gerardo Liedo)

2006 A Bigger Bang Tour

ON-STAGE TOUR

Tokyo Dome, Japan - March 22, 2006 © Mikio Ariga

Outside Tokyo Dome - March 22, 2006 © Koichi Kamoshida

Part 2: Far East & Australasian Tour

2006 Asian and Australian ‘A Bigger Bang’ Tour Overview

There wasn’t really much of a break for the Stones after the Robin Hood benefit, as eight days later they kicked off a four weeklong tour leg which took in ten shows in Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand. The most noteworthy event of this leg was the band’s long awaited first visit to mainland China (they had played in Hong Kong in 2003 – a territory which is subject to a separate and less stringent governing system than its neighbour). The Chinese authorities had banned the inclusion of four songs from ‘Forty Licks’ in 2002 and the Stones were advised not to perform them at their concert in Shanghai (only two of the songs – ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and ‘Brown Sugar’ were part of their usual set anyway, so it hardly made for a major shakeup. ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’ was presumably censored for its suggestive content although I’m at a loss as to why ‘Beast of Burden’ was deemed inappropriate. Maybe it’s the ‘make love’ line? You tell me. If that’s the case, a few more risqué numbers must have been lost in translation and slipped through the net). The Shanghai show was filmed for Chinese television but never broadcast. The sole televised concert from this leg was a fine performance in Saitama which was broadcast in Japan a few weeks later. The final part of the tour consisted of a stadium and arena show in two Australian cities followed by two stadium shows in New Zealand after which everything almost fell apart thanks to a little palm tree.

Three songs from Saitama and six songs from Shanghai (including a charming duet with Chinese rock star and longtime fan Cui Juan on ‘Wild Horses’) were included on the ‘Biggest Bang’ DVD in 2007.

Number of concerts – 10

Number in circulation – 10

Recommended shows – All the Japanese shows circulate as soundboards. Saitama is probably the best of them. Melbourne is the best of the four shows from the Australia/New Zealand part of the tour.

Personnel – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood with Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards), Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer (backing vocals & percussion), Blondie Chaplin (backing vocals, percussion & occasional guitar), Bobby Keys (tenor sax) and The New West Horns – Tim Ries (sax , Michael Davis (trombone) and Kent Smith (trumpet).

Concert Listing (This leg of the 2006 tours)

No.	Date	City	State / Province / Country	Venue
24	22-Mar	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
25	24-Mar	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
26	29-Mar	Sapporo	Japan	Sapporo Dome
27	2-Apr	Saitama	Japan	Saitama Super Arena
28	5-Apr	Nagoya	Japan	Nagoya Dome
29	8-Apr	Shanghai	China	Grand Stage
30	11-Apr	Sydney	Australia	Telstra Dome
31	13-Apr	Melbourne	Australia	Rod Laver Arena
32	16-Apr	Auckland	New Zealand	Western Springs Stadium
33	18-Apr	Wellington	New Zealand	Westpac Stadium

Setlists

Songs performed on the B-stage are denoted " * "

The first is when the stage is moving centre and the last is when the stage is moving back to the main stage

	22-Mar	24-Mar	29-Mar	2-Apr	5-Apr
	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Sapporo, Japan	Saitama, Japan	Nagoya, Japan
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1	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Start Me Up	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Jumpin' Jack Flash	1
2	Let's Spend The Night Together	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	2
3	She's So Cold	Oh No, Not You Again	Let's Spend The Night Together	Let's Spend The Night Together	She's So Cold	3
4	Oh No, Not You Again	Bitch	Oh No, Not You Again	Oh No, Not You Again	Oh No, Not You Again	4
5	Sway	Tumbling Dice	Angie	Sway	Ruby Tuesday	5
6	As Tears Go By	Worried About You	Rain Fall Down	Wild Horses	Rain Fall Down	6
7	Tumbling Dice	Ain't Too Proud To Beg	Bitch	Rain Fall Down	You Got Me Rocking	7
8	Rain Fall Down	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Gimme Shelter	8
9	Night Time (Is The Right Time)	Gimme Shelter	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	9
10	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	10
11	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	11
12	Miss You *	Miss You *	Miss You *	Miss You *	Miss You *	12
13	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	13
14	Get Off Of My Cloud *	You Got Me Rocking *	Start Me Up *	Start Me Up *	Get Off Of My Cloud *	14
15	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	15
16	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	16
17	Paint It Black	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	17
18	Start Me Up	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Start Me Up	18
19	Brown Sugar	You Can't Always Get What You Want	You Can't Always Get What You Want	You Can't Always Get What You Want	Brown Sugar	19
20	You Can't Always Get What You Want	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	You Can't Always Get What You Want	20
21	Satisfaction				Satisfaction	21

				Concert broadcast on ‘Wowow’
				(Japanese TV) 23-May 2006.
				Songs 3,7 & 13 released on ‘The
				Biggest Bang’ DVD boxed set
				(June 2007)

	8-Apr	11-Apr	13-Apr	16-Apr	18-Apr
	Shanghai, China	Sydney, Australia	Melbourne, Australia	Auckland, New Zealand	Wellington, New Zealand
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1	Start Me Up	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Satisfaction	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Jumpin' Jack Flash	1
2	You Got Me Rocking	Let's Spend The Night Together	Let's Spend The Night Together	Let's Spend The Night Together	You Got Me Rocking	2
3	Oh No, Not You Again	You Got Me Rocking	She's So Cold	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	She's So Cold	3
4	Bitch	Oh No, Not You Again	Oh No, Not You Again	Oh No, Not You Again	Oh No, Not You Again	4
5	Wild Horses	Dead Flowers	Sway	Bitch	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	5
6	Rain Fall Down	Angie	Worried About You	Ruby Tuesday	Angie	6
7	Midnight Rambler	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	Ain't Too Proud To Beg	Midnight Rambler	Gimme Shelter	7
8	Gimme Shelter	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Start Me Up	Midnight Rambler	8
9	Tumbling Dice	Night Time (Is The Right Time)	Night Time (Is The Right Time)	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	9
10	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	This Place Is Empty	10
11	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	11
12	Sympathy For The Devil	Miss You *	Miss You *	Miss You *	Miss You *	12
13	Miss You	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	Rough Justice *	13
14	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	Get Off Of My Cloud *	Get Off Of My Cloud *	Get Off Of My Cloud *	Start Me Up *	14
15	Paint it Black	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	Honky Tonk Women *	15
16	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Paint It Black	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	16
17	You Can't Always Get What You Want	Sympathy For The Devil	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	17
18	Satisfaction	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Satisfaction	Brown Sugar	18
19		Brown Sugar	Jumpin' Jack Flash	You Can't Always Get What You Want	You Can't Always Get What You Want	19
20		You Can't Always Get What You Want	You Can't Always Get What You Want	Brown Sugar	Satisfaction	20
21		Satisfaction	Brown Sugar			21

	With special guest Cui Juan (guitar &
	vocals) on song 5.
	Songs 4-5, 7-8 , 10 & 14 released on
	'The Biggest Bang’ DVD boxed set
	(June 2007)
	Concert was recorded by CC-TV1
	(China) but was never broadcast.
	The Stones were advised by the
	Chinese government that they could
	not perform the four songs that were
	banned from the Chinese edition of
	'Forty Licks’ (Brown Sugar/ Honky
	Tonk Women / Let’s Spend The Night
	Together / Beast Of Burden) as well
	as ‘Rough Justice’.
	As this was a show in a small arena,
	(8,000) there was no b-stage.

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