During the second week of October 2022, I have been tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic on five stages of his The Unfortunate Return Of The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. I have been an “ordinary” paying fan with tickets, but still took some snaps with my camera during the shows. I felt they are worth sharing, together with a few thoughts on the concerts themselves. Please excuse that the pictures do no match the quality they would have with my professional gear. In addition, the late delivery is majorly due to that my main notebook broke down so that I could not edit pictures any more in larger scale. If you are interested in the tour – I did a trip report / travel diary of the first leg of my trip, in April 2022:
Kicking Off The Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2022 (Preview)
This posting comes with 392 major size pictures as part of the concert gallery.
11th October 2022, King Center, Melbourne
I felt so happy to see the guys again. The show was really good, I enjoyed having a couple of my favorites – even though I have to admit the long trip from Germany and the trip from Cyprus to Germany before gave me a tough jetlag. The long song of the evening was Albuquerque. Overall, a really nice one to start the show.







12th October 2022, The Parker, Fort Lauderdale
When I saw the megaphone on stage again, I was on fire already – second evening in a row having Skipper Dan. My Twine Ball shirt matched the song selection of the evening. This was only the only VIP Weird Al Jeopardy show I paid for on the trip. J.W. is doing an awesome job as a host and it is a fun way to start into the show. Great to see so many familiar faces as well. Overall the first Fort Lauderdale show felt more rocking than the Melbourne one. Which also gave me an easier time to fight my tiredness. Amazing work by light and sound by the way, who support the great work by the band in an amazing manner.









13th October 2022, The Parker, Fort Lauderdale
The second show in Fort Lauderdale (both with quite some free seats, by the way) was to me the great showcase of the band. Ruben Valtierra’s amazing Latin keyboard skills at the “slightly” updated version of Dare To Be Stupid, Stephen Jay with his amazing bass groove (like in the encore You Can Call Me Al) or the amazing work by Jim “Kimo” West. These guys are so excellent (and, of course, I love Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz as a drummer as well 🙂 ). I would say that this was the most enjoyable stage of this five concert trip.








15th October 2022, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater
First of all, time to celebrate: My dear friend Jeremy had its 400th Weird Al Yankovic show this day. Simply the US God of Tourchasing – I just cannot neglect that Adrian in England is about in the same number with the musical Rock of Ages. The team around the band honored Jeremy in the pre-concert show of Weird Al Jeopardy, which he of course won.



I struggled with the show. The venue has some constructional issues (rows of more than sixty seats without an middle aisle, improper stair lights). Furthermore, the seats were pretty bad (row R!) regarding that I even had a pre-sale code for this venue. Apart from that, I was rather close to the wall and had to fight with echoes. Some really nice songs in the set – and also some which I hadn’t heard so far. I don’t comment too much on the song lottery. There are some 90 songs, which they choose of to play each evening. Sometimes you prefer them more, sometimes less. The encore, School’s Out by Alice Cooper, was a cool one, though.





16th October 2022, Disney Theatre, Orlando
My last show of this trip was at the beautiful Disney Theatre in the heart of Orlando. Let’s better skip talking about the traffic in Orlando Downtown in the very North of the city – especially the way out has been chaotic. While I had row R (18th row) the day before, I happened to sit in the wing of the second row with an ordinary (i.e. non-VIP) ticket this time – this stuff is really weird. The show was amazing, having some of my all-time favorites including Skipper Dan. The crowd was amazing and already cheered louder than any I saw before for support act and stand-up comedian Emo Philips. Really loved this show (again, exceptional work on the instruments and light) as a closing one for my Florida trip.









Weird Al Yankovic Florida October Shows – The Gallery
Here are 392 major size pictures of all the shows. They are located in the concert gallery:
Flyctory.com about Weird Al Yankovic
Here are all postings related to Weird Al Yankovic:
I am loaded with tennis work this week. The time in Newport, Rhode Island, featuring Indian tennis and the induction ...
Is it really New Year's Eve already again? The last day of the year? I am posting this one in ...
A new album by Jim "Kimo" West is always a very special moment for me. The Grammy-winning artist is a ...
Suprise, but no surprise? Stephen Jay already stated that his new album understatement is almost ready around the Dusseldorf show ...
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
Today is a very special day to me: Weird Al Yankovic is playing is first-ever concert in Germany tonight, at ...
In one of my latest Songs Of My Life editions, I introduced you to Amish Paradise by Weird Al Yankovic. Just ...
That day in Tilburg, Netherlands, was some sort of highlight of my Flyctory.com history so far. Almost five years after ...
The last posting of the year - Best Ones 2022 is introducing you to my best experience last years (as ...
While the music market is more and more focusing on singles and even writes weird stories like Taylor Swift's "Top ...
I was quite surprised that finally 15 songs made it into my Songs of the Week as of 16th November 2022 ...
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
Last week, have been traveling through Florida. Four cities, five concerts, one artist: Weird Al Yankovic. The US-American comedy musician ...
I am already flattered to head to the United States. I am going to Florida next week to see five ...
Somehow, a sad moment. The last show of Weird Al Yankovic on this trip. Day 5 would take me from ...
Day 3 of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022 likely had the most relaxed schedule of all. No ...
Which album would suit better this week to be the preview on Flyctory.com than Stephen Jay's Vita Beata? Just in ...
Pough... Pough... Keepsie? Poughkeepsie! I do love my Pittsburgh Penguins trips - like the last one in March 2022. But ...
Sharing my travel experience following Weird Al Yankovic on tour in North America is somehow traditional on Flyctory.com. Even though ...
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
Weird Al Yankovic is not only one of my most favorite artists, who I follow for some twenty years now ...
In addition to the very personal new Songs of My Life category, I feel like having a bit more blogging contents on ...
After his 2015 album Guitar Stories: Slack Key & Beyond, Jim "Kimo" West is back in the virtual record stores with ...
Just in time: one day before Jim "Kimo" West will release his new album More Guitar Stories, I had the opportunity ...
No hockey on Day 3 of my California trip 2020 - the day after the first match of the Pittsburgh ...
Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
As part of my Weird Al and Grass Court Tennis 2019 trip, I already visited two concerts of Weird Al ...
After the transfer Day 1 was haunted by terrible weather and Day 2 the expected long road trip to New ...
String Attached - the 2019 tour of Weird Al Yankovic is backed up by (local) symphonic orchestras. I traveled into Gilford, ...
After transferring to Connecticut on the first day, the second day of my "Weird Al & Grass Court Tennis" trip ...
After I did my very first trip report on Flyctory.com about following Weird Al Yankovic on his "Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised ...
Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
So long awaited... Time for the first concert of my trip to the Weird Al Tour 2018! Tried to start ...
My first flyctory.com Trip Report leads me to Georgia and Tennessee. Starting from Cologne airport, my key aim of that ...
With Gallery (2022)
Here are all my postings with a major size picture gallery, which I published in 2022:
Quite a lot of interesting music on Flyctory.com in November: after the Alexander Ludwig and Nik Wallner show in Cologne, ...
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
Right after coming back from New York City, I headed to the Helios37 in Cologne the same evening. Sound of ...
After Norway took the straight lead on Day 1, they were almost mandated to get to the Qualifiers of 2023 ...
Crunch time on day 1. Some of the hosts felt very sure that Casper Ruud's appearance in Lillehammer might be ...
One year after being with the Indian team in Espoo, Finland, I was so flattered that it was Davis Cup ...
What a lovely combination of two amazing female country artists: on 12th September 2022, Sound of Nashville presented Carly Pearce ...
23rd August 2022 has been a very special day to me. Always great to be able to cover a Lindsay ...
Legendary Gipsy Kings and one of Germany's biggest potential drivers of country music, More Than Words - I felt really ...
Okay, I have to give in from the very beginning: I love my home town Cologne - and this my ...
26th June 2022, Mülheim-Dümpten, Von-der-Tann Straße sports hall, 14:00 hrs local time: The final two teams, fighting through the group matches and ...
The second last match of the German Under 15 Girls National Championships featured the two losing teams of the semifinals, ...
From the senior girls to the very young ones: while the Dümptener Füchs from Mülheim, Ruhrgebiet region, just have become ...
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to ...
Somehow, a sad moment. The last show of Weird Al Yankovic on this trip. Day 5 would take me from ...
Day 3 of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022 likely had the most relaxed schedule of all. No ...
I did do the Opry Backstage Tour before, but ninth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 also ...
The F35 - or Kjölur Route is likely the most famous road trip in Iceland, apart from route 1, the Ring ...
The DFEL (German Women Ice Hockey League) leader traveling to the bottom team of the table (which had, to be ...
It's been quite a while ago since I stepped foot into Sportpark Nord, the home arena of the SSF Dragons ...