The Pussycat Dolls Tour

The Pussycat Dolls Tour (also informally known as the PCD Reunion Tour and Unfinished Business[1][2]) is the upcoming third concert tour by American girl group The Pussycat Dolls. It was announced in 2019, when Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts, Carmit Bachar, Kimberly Wyatt and Jessica Sutta announced that the Dolls were reforming for new music and a brand new concert tour. Former member Melody Thornton was involved in the conversations to reunite but has instead opted to focus on solo ventures.

The Pussycat Dolls Tour
Tour by The Pussycat Dolls
The second promotional poster for the tour, adapted for the new dates after initial dates were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Location
  • UK
  • Ireland
Start dateMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
End dateJune 2, 2021 (2021-06-02)
Legs1
No. of shows10
The Pussycat Dolls concert chronology

The tour was due to begin in April 2020 with nine arena dates around the UK and Ireland, but these were postponed until the Autumn and then Spring-Summer 2021 due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. It is now scheduled to begin on May 21, 2021 with ten dates across the UK and Ireland. A number of festival dates were cancelled all together including a headline slot at Brighton Pride (UK), So Pop Festival (Australia and New Zealand), Untold Festival (Romania) and Super Bloom (Germany), while some international dates in Japan, Brazil, and the Philippines have been postponed pending further confirmation.

Background

The group performed for the first time in nearly a decade on the final of UK reality tv competition, The X Factor: Celebrity where alongside previous singles, they also performed a new song "React" and have since confirmed that new music is in production alongside the tour.[3][4] Former member, Melody Thornton decided not to reunite with the group in order to focus on her solo career.[5]

Speaking on their decision to tour the UK and Ireland, Roberts told the BBC, "L.A. was our home, but the U.K. was our second home because the British just scooped us up. So, our lives ended up here as well, some of us, so the fans have just been holding on strong with wanting this reunion and our biggest fanbase is over here."[6] In the same interview, Wyatt noted that the group had been talking about a reunion for some years, "it’s been a few years in the making" and tour was dubbed Unfinished Business, supported by comments made by both Roberts and Wyatt. Wyatt said "I think ultimately there’s some unfinished business with The Pussycat Dolls"[6] and Roberts agreed, noting that it had "been 10 years ... we just all were ready to do it".[7] As part of the tour, the group was confirmed to be headlining the second day of Brighton Pride.[8]

The tour's first leg was supposed to begin in April 2020, visiting 9 venues around the UK and Ireland.[9] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tour dates were postponed until October 2020.[9] Additionally for the same reasons, Brighton Pride was postponed for a year; it has not been confirmed whether the group will appear in 2021 for the new scheduled date.[10] The tour was then scheduled to begin in July with a number of festival and racecourse events through the UK and Ireland, as well as the Untold Festival in Romania and Superbloom Festival in Germany. As of April 2020, the tour was scheduled to begin on July 26, 2020 at Slessor Gardens in Dundee, Scotland before visiting the rescheduled arenas in October and November 2020.[9] However, on July 2, the tour was confirmed to have been pushed back into 2021, with dates now spanning May and June.[11] Other international dates for 2020, including Brazil, Philippines, Japan and Oceania have been postponed, or cancelled all together. Postponed concerts in those regions have yet to be rescheduled.

Tour Bands
The Pussycat Dolls
Touring musicians

Tour dates

Confirmed dates
List of European concerts[9][11]
Date City Country Venue Original date Rescheduled date[a]
May 21, 2021 Cardiff Wales Motorpoint Arena April 6, 2020 October 24, 2020
May 22, 2021 Nottingham England Motorpoint Arena April 9, 2020 October 27, 2020
May 23, 2021 Birmingham Resorts World Arena April 8, 2020 October 21, 2020
May 25, 2021 Leeds First Direct Arena April 15, 2020 October 28, 2020
May 26, 2021 Manchester AO Arena April 14, 2020 October 26, 2020
May 28, 2021 London The O2 Arena April 17, 2020 October 30, 2020
May 29, 2021 April 19, 2020[b] October 31, 2020
May 30, 2021 Dublin Ireland 3Arena April 5, 2020 November 2, 2020
June 1, 2021 Newcastle England Utilita Arena Newcastle April 12, 2020 October 19, 2020
June 2, 2021 Glasgow Scotland The SSE Hydro April 11, 2020 October 22, 2020

Postponed shows
List of postponed concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for postponement[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Date City Country Venue Reason(s)[a]
May 9, 2020 Pasay City Philippines Mall of Asia Arena COVID-19 pandemic
May 14, 2020 Osaka Japan Namba Hatch
May 15, 2020 Tokyo Tokyo Garden Theatre
June 13, 2020 São Paulo Brazil UnimedHall
June 16, 2020 Uberlândia Arena Sabiazinho
June 18, 2020 Ribeirão Preto Arena Eurobike
July 4, 2020 Llanelli Wales Parc y Scarlets
July 26, 2020 Dundee Scotland Slessor Gardens

Cancelled shows
List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation[9][19]
Date City Country Venue Reason(s) Note(s)
April 24, 2020 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre COVID-19 pandemic Part of So Pop Festival[20]
April 25, 2020 Sydney Qudos Bank Arena
April 28, 2020 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre Scheduling issues[21]
April 29, 2020 Perth HBF Stadium COVID-19 pandemic
May 1, 2020[c] Melbourne Melbourne Arena
May 2, 2020 Auckland New Zealand Spark Arena
May 3, 2020 Christchurch Horncastle Arena
July 5, 2020 Northampton England Franklin's Gardens[22]
July 17, 2020 Suffolk Newmarket Racecourse[23]
July 18, 2020 Merseyside Haydock Park Racecourse[24]
July 22, 2020 Esher Sandown Park Racecourse[25]
July 24, 2020 York York Racecourse[26]
July 25, 2020 Newcastle Newcastle Racecourse[27]
July 30, 2020 Cluj-Napoca Romania Cluj Arena[28] Part of the Untold Festival[29]
August 1, 2020 Lingfield England Lingfield Park Resort[30]
August 2, 2020 Brighton Preston Park[10] Part of Brighton Pride[10]
August 21, 2020 Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Racecourse[31]
September 5, 2020 Munich Germany Olympic Park[32] Part of the Superbloom festival[33]

Notes

Reception

On December 6, 2019, the group added a second date at London's O2 Arena on April 19 after selling out their first date on April 17.[36]

References
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