Here comes the Sunrise/Fort Lauderdale Bon Jovi show

Okay, so on the official Bon Jovi tour dates, this show is listed as Fort Lauderdale, but when I Googled the venue it appears to be in Sunrise, which is apparently a different city? 

If any Floridians read this, help me out here -- what's correct?

In the meantime, here's what was played...

Sunrise/Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA - April 16, 2022

FLA Live Arena

1. Limitless
2. The Radio Saved My Life
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. We Weren't Born to Follow
5. It's My Life
6. Beautiful Drug
7. Born to Be My Baby
8. This House Is Not For Sale
9. Just Older
10. Let It Rain
11. Keep the Faith
12. Lower the Flag
13. Whole Lot of Leavin'
14. Do What You Can
15. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
16. Lost Highway
17. Roller Coaster
18. Have a Nice Day
19. Livin' on a Prayer
    
    encore:
20. Wanted Dead or Alive
21. Who Says You Can't Go Home
22. Bad Medicine

 

"Wanted Dead or Alive" was played after being unceremoniously dumped from the previous show in Tampa.

Selected videos from Sunrise/Fort Lauderdale

"Lower the Flag". Jon dedicated it to those affected by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shooting in Parkland, Florida -- which is of course mentioned in the bridge of the song:

"Have a Nice Day". Great take-on-the-world song on the album. I've heard a couple of people say it sounded better in person than it does when you're listening back to the video:

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Bon Jovi Fort Lauderdale set list 2/3/13

Bon Jovi played in Sunrise, Florida for Jon's 51st birthday. The set looks a little dry on paper, with no Just Older or any expected tidbits like that, and there are some reports that the crowd "sucked" and Jon's back might be giving him trouble. Ahead of the show, Matt Bongiovi sent some tweets (which seem to have been deleted) saying that "our leader" had requested no birthday signs, and later that no signs were to be allowed at any show from now on.

Were you at the concert?

Sunrise, FL, US - BB&T Center - March 2, 2013

1. You Give Love A Bad Name
2. Raise Your Hands
3. Lost Highway
4. Because We Can
5. That's What The Water Made Me
6. It's My Life
7. Runaway
8. What About Now
9. We Got It Goin' On
10. Keep The Faith
11. Amen
12. Bed Of Roses
13. I'll Be There For You
14. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
15. We Weren't Born To Follow
16. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
18. Wanted Dead Or Alive
19. Who Says You Can't Go Home
20. Bad Medicine
Encore:
21. (You Want To) Make A Memory
22. In These Arms
23. Born To Be My Baby
Encore 2:
24. Have A Nice Day
25. Livin' On A Prayer

Next stop: Charlotte.

Ft Lauderdale set list

Here's the set list from Bon Jovi's Fort Lauderdale show (no bomb threats this time!), with "Saturday Night" returning to the acoustic set.

FORT LAUDERDALE, USA - BANKATLANTIC CENTER - APRIL 19, 2010
Blood on Blood
We Weren't Born to Follow
You Give Love a Bad Name
Whole Lot of Leavin'
Born to Be My Baby
Lost Highway
When We Were Beautiful
Superman Tonight
We Got It Going On
Bad Medicine w/ Bad Case of Loving You [Robert Palmer cover]
It's My Life
Lay Your Hands on Me [Richie Sambora on lead vocals]
Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen cover]
I'll Be There For You
Something for the Pain [acoustic]
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night [acoustic]
Keep the Faith
Work for the Working Man
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Love's the Only Rule

ENCORE:
Runaway
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer

Some of you might have noticed that I haven't posted videos from the past couple of shows. Well, for one thing it's hard to know what to showcase on the blog when Bon Jovi have been playing largely unremarkable "vanilla" sets, and I've been too busy to watch everything that gets uploaded in order to filter out the best. That's not to say I wouldn't be happy if I got a set like the one above when the band hits Australia. I'd be hearing songs from The Circle, an album I love, for the first time; there would be five other songs I'd never experienced before, including one from my beloved These Days; and I'd see Jon singing "I'll Be There For You" for the first time. And from all reports and what I've seen on YouTube, the band's actual performances have been great. But when you're not actually AT the show, all you really get is the set list on paper (screen, but you know what I mean) and there hasn't been a lot of variation between shows.

I've said this before but it really is not that difficult to appease 99% of diehard fans. All you need is one or two rarities each night. I've followed several PBPs that went something along the lines of "Boring set, boring set, boring set, *insert rare song* OH MY GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST SET EVER!".

It's true that not everyone will like those songs but you could say that about any song in the set. I know Jon hates the thought of a "lull" during a concert, but then isn't that why he plays abominations like "We Got It Going On" (which, by the way, could be rotated with something like "One Wild Night" or "99 in the Shade" for a similar crowd effect)?

So for complete media guides (including videos) of each show, head to Hath's Circle Tour blog. We're all part of a community here in the Bon Jovi blogosphere and there's no reason why we can't share resources. ;) I'll of course continue to post set lists and other news/interesting things, and embed videos when we get some gems or if there's something kind of unique or cool about a performance. :)