The tour ran from March 1, to December 20, 2009 in the United States, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand[1] and was the band's first tour in five years,[2] the group featured tracks within the setlist that spanned "all the Mac's many greatest hits" and pulled two rarely played live tracks "Storms" and "I Know I'm Not Wrong" that were taken from the Tusk album.

[3] This was the first tour that the Rumours-era lineup undertook without a new album to promote.

The group were planning to rerelease Rumours as a CD/DVD combo with unreleased songs, demos and footage from that era.

[5] Stevie Nicks mooted Sheryl Crow joining the band to add a female to the group dynamic in McVie's absence.

[6] Of the onstage atmosphere, Nicks remarked: "My cousin John has known Lindsey [Buckingham] and I since 1968.