Extending their ongoing farewell tour in 2024, Foreigner has revealed their two-part Feels Like the Last Time residency at the Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas. The 16-date run of dates will run from March and April and continue again in October and November in 2024.
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“Many years ago, I wrote a song called ‘Feels Like The First Time’ and today we are launching one last worldwide tour,” said Foreigner singer and founder Mick Jones in a previous statement. “We will be presenting a show that I know will have the same enthusiasm as our very first appearances. While I’m sure our fans will have mixed feelings about the end of the road for the band, I know our shows are going to delight audiences everywhere.”
Foreigner kicked off their farewell tour on July 6, 2023, at a sold-out show at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia. “It was fabulous, a sold-out crowd in Atlanta for our first night—it couldn’t have gone better,” said bassist Jeff Pilson. “The show went off without a hitch. We had done a couple of days of production rehearsal, so everything was extremely smooth. The audience was fabulous. You could really kind of feel the emotions of people knowing that this is the beginning of our farewell tour.”
The band’s set list has been filled with Foreigner hits, typically opening on “Double Vision” and going into “Cold as Ice,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” and Feels Like the First Time,” along and closing sets with hits “I Want to Know What Love Is” and “Hot Blooded.”
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“When we get to that first chorus [of ‘Feels Like the First Time’] and it just explodes, and the whole audience is right there,” added Pilson. “During ‘Urgent’ we got Michael Bluestein’s keytar solo in there now, which is so fun and exciting.”
Pilson continued, “On ‘Juke Box Hero’ we do all this jamming, and then of course the feeling that you get when you play ‘I Want to Know What Love Is,’ when absolutely everybody in the audience connects and sings and you get that feeling right away. And that’s when you say to yourself, ‘I got a damn good job.'”
Foreigner Feels Like the Last Time 2024 Las Vegas Residency:
March 2024: 22, 23, 27, 29, 30
April 2024: 3, 5, 6
October 2024: 25, 26, 30
November 2024: 1, 2, 6, 8, 9
Photo: Krishta Abruzzini / Courtesy of Vaness Menkes Communications
