Whilst recovering from the obscenity of seeing the band playing coroporate gigs for american law firms' xmas parties (urgh, theres that taste in my mouth again) I got to thinking about the forthcoming tour.

If we are talking about 22-23 songs in a setlist, how many should change each night in order for us feel like we had value for money if we are attending multiple shows or value for money because the setlist isn't totally predictable.

I think at least 4 songs should change each night. Is that too conservative.

These songs are stickies in the set :

1. Prayer
2. Bad Name
3. Wanted
4. Medicine
5. Its My Life
6. Who Says
7. WWBTF
8. Born to be My Baby
9. Sleep
10.Have a Nice Day (thanks for the spot - I meant this to be in, not Lost Highway x2!)
11. Superman Tonight
12. WWWB
13. Lost Highway

That leaves 10 songs that I can't predict that could be rotated. I personally wouldn't have some of them in as stickies but those are the ones that I think Jon will not change, could be wrong, hope I am in terms of number 9 particularly, but after that all bets are off.

They could play 'In These Arms' but its been rested before. Ditto for 'Always', ditto for 'Keep the Faith'

Is it time to rest 'I'll be there for you'? - its certainly time for richie to sing something else, surely?

Anyway - 4 songs would be my minimum expectation that I would want to see change at every show to avoid feeling like they are putting no effort in, 6-7 would be my ideal.