Up in Arms Tour

The Up in Arms Tour was a two-month-plus long 2008 concert tour that saw San Diego rock band Switchfoot touring with popular philanthropic organization, To Write Love on Her Arms.

Up in Arms Tour
Tour by Switchfoot
Legs1
No. of shows34
Switchfoot concert chronology

Following the recent trend set by the band's previous, wildly successful Appetite for Construction Tour, the Up In Arms Tour prominently featured a meaningful cause to the bandmembers. Between the opening bands' performances and Switchfoot's main set, Jamie Tworkowski, the founder of TWLOHA, gave a short message about the organization. [1]

The tour primarily visited small rock clubs, college campuses, and small amphitheatres. After a mostly arena/small stadium tour for "Appetite," Switchfoot returned to their preferred venue demographic.

Show and set list
Jon Foreman featured during the Up in Arms Tour

The opening act every show was the UK pop rock outfit, Athlete (there were two exceptions being the Asheville show, in which the slot was taken by the South African trio Civil Twilight due to Joel Pott becoming ill, and the Stamford and Rutgers shows, where they were replaced by Luna Halo). In addition to Athlete, several other bands also opened for Switchfoot during the tour. The Myriad, Emery, Sparky's Flaw, and Anthony Raneri from Bayside (band) all played select shows throughout the tour. The band brought back "Love Is the Movement" for this tour, due to it being used as a slogan for TWLOHA.

The setlist generally consisted of the following, with minor variations in song order:

  1. "Meant to Live intro
  2. "Oh! Gravity."
  3. "Stars"
  4. "This Is Your Life"
  5. "Ammunition"
  6. "Gone/Crazy in Love mash-up"
  7. "We Are One Tonight/The Shadow Proves the Sunshine mash-up"
  8. "Love Is the Movement"
  9. "This Is Home"
  10. "Dirty Second Hands"
  11. "American Dream"
  12. "On Fire"
  13. "Awakening"
  14. "Meant to Live"

Encore

  1. "Twenty-Four"
  2. "Dare You to Move"

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
March 27, 2008San Antonio, TexasUnited States[[Trinity University (Texas)|Laurie Auditorium]]
March 28, 2008Tulsa, OklahomaThe Other Side
March 29, 2008Beaumont, TexasCrockett Street Outdoors
March 30, 2008New Orleans, LouisianaHouse of Blues
March 31, 2008Fort Walton Beach, FloridaThe Swamp
April 2, 2008Aiken, South CarolinaUSCA Convocation Center
April 3, 2008Myrtle Beach, South CarolinaHouse of Blues
April 4, 2008Covington, KentuckyMadison Theater
April 5, 2008Grand Rapids, MichiganCalvin College Fine Arts
April 6, 2008Bourbonnais, IllinoisOlivet Nazarene University
April 7, 2008Waukesha, WisconsinShattuck Auditorium
April 8, 2008Indianapolis, IndianaEgyptian Room @ Murat Center
April 11, 2008Peoria, IllinoisPeoria Civic Center
April 12, 2008Joplin, MissouriJoplin Memorial Hall
April 16, 2008Iowa City, IowaIowa Memorial Union Ballroom
April 17, 2008Poplar Bluff, MissouriBlack River Coliseum
April 18, 2008Troy, AlabamaTrojan Arena
April 19, 2008Hattiesburg, MississippiReed Green Coliseum
April 20, 2008Huntsville, AlabamaSpraggins Hall
April 24, 2008Jacksonville, FloridaMurray Hill Theatre
April 25, 2008Estero, FloridaGermain Arena
April 26, 2008West Palm Beach, FloridaSound Advice Amphitheater
April 27, 2008Charlottesville, VirginiaCharlottesville Pavilion
April 28, 2008Asheville, North CarolinaOrange Peel
May 1, 2008Ocean City, New JerseyOcean City Music Pier
May 2, 2008Stamford, ConnecticutPalace Theater
May 3, 2008Piscataway, New JerseyRutgers Athletic Center
May 4, 2008Chili, New YorkRoberts Wesleyan College

References
  1. You tell me to live. We were meant to live. - published February 12, 2008 (retrieved March 12, 2008)
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