The Pretenders tore by means of Ohio this week with two headlining exhibits in Chrissie Hynde’s hometown and a gap set in entrance of a baseball stadium filled with Foo Fighters followers.

The journey started with a return to Akron for 2 sold-out nights on the Goodyear Theater. As you possibly can see under, Hynde posted a photograph of herself in entrance of her childhood house on social media Tuesday morning, the day of the primary present.

With assist from the Pretenders’ razor-sharp present lineup, every evening Hynde handled the ecstatic crowd to 27-song units that targeted on their two most up-to-date albums – 2023’s Relentless and 2020’s Hate for Sale – as a lot because it did on songs from their beloved 1980 self-titled debut. Guitarist James Walbourne was significantly spectacular, including muscle, depth and texture to every music.

“This is a song about my beautiful hometown,” Hynde mentioned over the opening of “My City Was Gone,” explaining how she wrote it after revisiting Akron in 1975 and seeing that her beloved downtown was about to get replaced with parking heaps and company workplaces. “They thought I wrote it because I didn’t love Akron anymore,” she scoffed on the finish of the music.

Although it did not present in any respect throughout her efficiency, Hynde admitted to having extra nerves than common on the present, saying it felt like “a class reunion” at one level: “I’m a little nervous in front of all my friends.” She additionally pulled off the near-miracle of getting virtually the complete crowd to place away their cellphones with a handful of well-placed barbs: “Is that phone really more interesting than I am?”

Watch Pretenders Perform ‘My City Was Gone’

The Pretenders’ second Goodyear Theater present the following evening discovered them switching out a trio of songs, including ’80s gems “Talk of the Town,” “Thumbelina” and “Tattooed Love Boys” Keeping true to her 2022 promise to again off from enjoying her largest hits, there was no “Brass in Pocket” or “Middle of the Road” to be discovered both evening, and no one within the crowd appeared in the slightest degree involved about that.

Thursday evening discovered the Pretenders three and a half hours away in Cincinnati, opening for the Foo Fighters on a invoice that additionally featured Mammoth WVH, who carried out their very own unbelievable headline set midway between Akron and Cleveland Wednesday evening. Hynde and firm understandably went a little bit bit heavier on the band’s best-known songs, even breaking out “Middle of the Road” for the set-closer, however nonetheless stored one-third of the set targeted on their most up-to-date albums.

Watch Pretenders Perform ‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’

Pretenders at Goodyear Theater, Akron Ohio July 23, 2024 Set List
1. “Losing My Sense of Taste” (From 2023’s Relentless)
2. “A Love” (From 2023’s Relentless)
3. “Turf Accountant Daddy” (From 2020’s Hate for Sale)
4. “Hate for Sale” (From 2020’s Hate for Sale)
5. “Kid” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
6. “Precious” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
7. “The Buzz” (From 2020’s Hate for Sale)
8. “My City Was Gone” (From 1984’s Learning to Crawl)
9. “You Can’t Hurt a Fool” (From 2020’s Hate for Sale)
10. “Don’t Cut Your Hair” (From 2008’s Break Up the Concrete)
11. “Domestic Silence” (From 2023’s Relentless)
12. “Private Life” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
13. “I Think About You Daily” (From 2023’s Relentless)
14. “Biker” (From 1999’s !Viva El Amor!)
15. “Vainglorious” (From 2023’s Relentless)
16. “Time the Avenger” (From 1984’s Learning to Crawl)
17. “The Wait” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
18. “Boots of Chinese Plastic” (From 2008’s Break Up the Concrete)
19. “The Phone Call” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
20. “Merry Widow” (From 2023’s Relentless)
21. “Pack It Up” (From 1981’s Pretenders II)

Encore:
22. “Stop Your Sobbing” ((Kinks cowl, from 1980’s Pretenders)
23. “Let the Sun Come In” (From 2023’s Relentless)
24. “Back on the Chain Gang” (From 1984’s Learning to Crawl)

Encore 2:
25. “Don’t Get Me Wrong” (From 1986’s Get Close)
26. “Mystery Achievement” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
27. “I’ll Stand By You” (From 1994’s Last of the Independents)

Pretenders at Goodyear Theater, Akron Ohio July 24, 2024 Set List
1. “Losing My Sense of Taste”
2. “A Love”
3. “Turf Accountant Daddy”
4. “Hate for Sale”
5. “Talk of the Town” (From 1981’s Pretenders II)
6. “Precious”
7. “The Buzz”
8. “My City Was Gone”
9. “Thumbelina” (From 1984’s Learning to Crawl)
10. “You Can’t Hurt a Fool”
11. “Don’t Cut Your Hair”
12. “Domestic Silence”
13. “Private Life”
14. “I Think About You Daily”
15. “Biker”
16. “Vainglorious”
17. “The Wait”
18. “Boots of Chinese Plastic”
19. “The Phone Call”
20. “Time the Avenger”
21. “Merry Widow”
22. “Let the Sun Come In”

Encore:
23. “Don’t Get Me Wrong”
24. “The Wait”
25. “Tattooed Love Boys” (From 1980’s Pretenders)
26. “Back on the Chain Gang”
27. “Mystery Achievement”

Pretenders at Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Ohio July 25, 2024 Set List
1. “Let the Sun Come In”
2. “Hate for Sale”
3. “Turf Accountant Daddy”
4. “Kid”
5. “My City Was Gone”
6. “Vainglorious”
7. “Junkie Walk”
8. “Stop Your Sobbing”
9. “Back on the Chain Gang”
10. “Don’t Get Me Wrong”
11. “Tattooed Love Boys”
12. “Bad Boys Get Spanked” (From 1981’s Pretenders II)
13. “I’ll Stand By You”
14. “Middle of the Road” (From 1984’s Learning to Crawl)