The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011
# The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011

The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 is a set of eleven concerts in the United States and Canada featuring the newly reunited American band The Cars. Announced in April 2011 prior to the release of the band's album Move Like This, the concerts feature material from Move Like This and from the band's 1970s and 1980s albums.

Singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, guitarist Elliot Easton and drummer David Robinson performed as a quartet, as original Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000. Orr's bass parts were performed by Hawkes on keyboard and bass, while the vocals on songs originally sung by Orr ("Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and "Moving in Stereo") were performed by Ocasek. As Ocasek died on September 15, 2019, this is the final tour from the band.

## Tour dates

| Date | City | Country | Venue |
| - | - | - | - |
| May 10, 2011 | Seattle | United States | Showbox SoDo |
| May 12, 2011 | Los Angeles | United States | Hollywood Palladium |
| May 13, 2011 | Oakland | United States | Fox Theater |
| May 15, 2011 | Denver | United States | Fillmore |
| May 17, 2011 | Minneapolis | United States | First Avenue |
| May 18, 2011 | Chicago | United States | Riviera Theatre |
| May 20, 2011 | Toronto | Canada | Sound Academy |
| May 22, 2011 | Philadelphia | United States | Electric Factory |
| May 23, 2011 | Washington, D.C. | United States | 9:30 Club |
| May 25, 2011 | New York City | United States | Roseland Ballroom |
| May 26, 2011 | Boston | United States | House of Blues |

## Reception

The performances and set lists were met with mixed reviews: The Hollywood Reporter reviewer Erik Pedersen found Move Like This to be a "surprisingly good" album but described the Hollywood Palladium show as "icy" and unenthusiastic. San Jose Mercury News reviewer Jim Harrington described the band's performance at Oakland's Fox Theater as "incredibly flat and dispassionate", but praised the band's "solid" musicianship.

## Band members

* Ric Ocasek – lead vocals, guitar
* Elliot Easton – guitars, backing vocals
* Greg Hawkes – keyboards, bass, backing vocals
* David Robinson – drums, backing vocals
