The Bamboozle Road Show 2010 was the third Bamboozle Road Show, an American nationwide concert tour based on the Bamboozle Festival. Each concert in the tour featured a main stage for well-known bands and a second stage for lesser known bands to perform on. The bands who performed on the main stage on the 2010 tour were headliners All Time Low, Boys Like Girls, LMFAO and Third Eye Blind, supported by Good Charlotte, Hanson, Forever the Sickest Kids, Hellogoodbye and Cartel. Tickets went on sale on to the public on 6 March 2010. The tour included 24 shows in 17 states from 21 May to 27 June 2010 after 2 dates were cancelled due to scheduling issues. All Time Low was banned from one Texas show after they criticized the way their fans were handled at a previous show when some fans were pepper sprayed by police for fighting over a T-shirt thrown into the crowd.
Bands All Time Low (except 6/13 & 6/24) Boys Like Girls 3OH!3 (6/2) LMFAO (6/10-6/26) Third Eye Blind (6/3-6/27) Good Charlotte Hanson (5/21-5/30) Travie McCoy (6/2) A Cursive Memory (6/5-6/6) Cady Groves Cartel (5/21-5/30) The Downtown Fiction (5/21-6/6 except 5/28) Forever the Sickest Kids Great Big Planes (Except 5/28) Hellogoodbye (6/5-6/15) I Fight Dragons (6/2) Michael and Marisa (6/24-6/27) Mercy Mercedes (Except 5/28) The Ready Set (Except 5/28) Shwayze (6/5-6/6) Simple Plan (6/18-6/27) Stereo Skyline (6/10-6/27) Vedera (6/24-6/27) Vita Chambers (Except 5/28)
Tour dates DateCityCountryVenue May 21, 2010 ColumbiaUnited States Merriweather Post Pavilion May 22, 2010 Charlotte Uptown Amphitheatre at The Music Factory May 23, 2010 Atlanta Six Flags Over Georgia May 25, 2010 West Palm Beach Cruzan Amphitheatre May 26, 2010 Tampa Ford Amphitheatre May 28, 2010 Houston Verizon Wireless Theater May 29, 2010 Arlington Six Flags Over Texas May 30, 2010 San Antonio Six Flags Fiesta Texas June 2, 2010 Phoenix Cricket Wireless Pavilion June 3, 2010 Las Vegas The Joint June 5, 2010 Concord Sleep Train Pavilion June 6, 2010 Chula Vista Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre June 10, 2010 Minneapolis Cabooze Plaza June 11, 2010 Milwaukee Eagles Ballroom June 12, 2010 Chicago Soldier Field June 13, 2010 Eureka Six Flags St. Louis June 15, 2010 Clarkston DTE Energy Music Theatre June 18, 2010 Cleveland Time Warner Cable Amphitheater at Tower City June 19, 2010 Cincinnati PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center June 20, 2010 Philadelphia Festival Pier at Penn's Landing June 23, 2010 Pittsburgh Amphitheater at Station Square June 24, 2010 Jackson Township Six Flags Great Adventure June 25, 2010 Hershey Hersheypark Pavilion June 26, 2010 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Parking Lot June 27, 2010 Mansfield Comcast Center
Bamboozle tour controversy During the Bamboozle Road Show of 2010, controversy arose over the use of pepper spray at a concert. A show at a Six Flags park in Arlington, Texas, according to a Six Flags spokesperson, became rowdy, and park staff used pepper spray on the crowd. Six Flags took the band off the bill on Sunday night. Singer Alex Gaskarth reported on Twitter that they had been "banned" from the park; according to Six Flags, the band chose to drop off the bill.
All Time Low was later banned from playing the rest of the Six Flags venue dates on the Bamboozle Roadshow. Alex Gaskarth posted on their official Myspace page via a blog: "I know there have been a lot of questions floating around, so I just wanted to reach out and let you guys know what's going on with the remaining Six Flags shows on the Bamboozle Roadshow tour. We'd really love to be there, but unfortunately we're not allowed to play the shows in Eureka, Missouri and Jackson, New Jersey. I promise that we'll make it all up to you very soon."
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