User:Everyking/Ashlee Simpson U.S. tour, 2005

Singer Ashlee Simpson began her first headlining tour in the United States on February 16, 2005, at The Grove in Anaheim, California; it is scheduled to conclude on April 20 in Grand Prairie, Texas. Two dates are scheduled for Canada as well: in Vancouver on February 26 and Toronto on March 13. The opening acts will be the bands Pepper's Ghost and The Click Five. Tickets for the tour first went on sale in mid-December 2004. On Total Request Live on February 7, 2005, Simpson said of her tour that she will do some covers of songs by some of her favorite artists&mdash;she named The Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket", Blondie's "Call Me", and Madonna's "Burning Up"&mdash;in addition to her usual songs from her album Autobiography, which was released in the U.S. in July 2004. The opening stages of her tour will apparently be recorded for the second season of Simpson's MTV reality show, The Ashlee Simpson Show. On TRL, she also said that she plans to work on her next album with her band while she is on the road; she said that she will have a studio on the bus while she is travelling.

Her second show of the tour was at Universal City, California on February 18, 2005.