Start Something - Tour

Tour

The first time songs from the new album were played live was on 17 August 2003 at Newport, the first gig of three alongside a Birmingham date and a Manchester date, in preparation for the Reading and Leeds festival at the end of August. For these gigs We Still Kill The Old Way became the regular opener, whilst sets closed with Burn Burn, with tracks from their previous album interspersed in between. Kerrang noted in a live review from Manchester that We Still Kill The Old Way and To Hell We Ride were "well received" but that "the surfeit of new material leads to a comparatively muted response". At the end of July though it was announced that the band had cancelled their appearance at Reading and Leeds, whilst still promising to play the three warm-up shows, citing that they wanted the recording of Start Something to take precedence. Ian Watkins said "Unfortunately these shows are at the final stages of making the record and we felt it was more important not to short change anyone." The band did however support Linkin Park at Wembley Arena in London on 22 November 2003 playing eight tracks, including five from the soon to be released new album. Therefore the band played four dates altogether in 2003.

To promote the album, the band toured North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Four months before the release of Start Something the band started the support tour for it. Their tour started in the United Kingdom. The band also announced being Linkin Park's support act in their UK winter arena tour. They later announced playing at the NME Award show in the London Astoria and then later announced UK dates in such places as Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester among others. The concert in the London Astoria ended up being sold out.

On 15 July Lostprophets started their North America tour which included thirteen dates all put together, the American tour ended on 3 August 2004. Lostprophets would also go on to be a part of the MTV's Campus Invasion Tour, the band was a supporting act for headliner Hoobastank, the tour kicked of in University of Tennessee. In May 2004 the band visited Vancouver, Canada for a one night show. Later on they went to play in New Zealand and Australia as part of the Big Day Out festival. They would also go down to Japan for their first time. The band returned to the UK in November 2004 and for the first time they played big headline dates, because of this they extended their UK tour.

As of 2012, Start Something is the most popular album played by the band with just over 35% of songs coming from that album across all the gigs they've ever played. On top of this Last Train Home, Burn Burn and Last Summer are amongst the most popular songs the band play live. With the exception of I Don't Know, Hello Again and A Million Miles the other tracks all featured at least a couple of times during The Betrayed tour of 2010 and the Weapons tour of 2012. Apart from once when the whole album was played in its entirety to a sell-out crowd at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena on 28 April 2012, the last time I Don't Know was played live was in 2008, whilst Hello Again and A Million Miles were last played in 2004. Recently British fans have regularly asked the band to play We Are Godzilla, We Are Japan by making a claw shape with their left hand and chanting "Godzilla!". The band sometimes tease the audience by playing the first few notes but very rarely play the song in full.