Nickelback Brings All the Right Reasons Tour to Sunrise

Nickelback rolled into BankAtlantic Center on Friday night for the South Florida stop on the band's All the Right Reasons Tour, the final North American leg of a touring cycle that has been on the road in one form or another since the album of the same name was released in late 2005. Daughtry, the new band fronted by former "American Idol" finalist Chris Daughtry, opened the bill, with Staind also on the lineup.

The Sunrise show drew a crowd that filled the lower bowl and most of the upper level, leaving only the highest corner sections visibly empty. Nickelback's set leaned on the singles that have anchored mainstream rock radio in South Florida and across the country for the last eighteen months, including "Photograph," "Far Away," "Rockstar" and "Animals," interspersed with older material like "How You Remind Me" from the 2001 album "Silver Side Up."

Frontman Chad Kroeger worked the runway thrust into the floor crowd, with t-shirt cannons aimed into the upper levels between songs and a pyrotechnic rig that kept the fire marshals' attention high without crossing into the jet-engine territory of bigger arena rock productions. The Daughtry opener — built around the Top-40 single "It's Not Over" from a debut album that was released in November and is still climbing the Billboard 200 — gave the early-arriving floor crowd a tighter, more radio-shaped half-hour than most opening slots deliver.

For Broward seniors, the calendar matters. The Nickelback show is the second arena rock concert at BankAtlantic Center this spring with sustained airplay on Y100 and 105.9 The X, and it falls in the stretch of weeks between spring break and AP exam reviews when school nights and concert nights start to overlap more than usual. Friday's start time of 7 p.m. and the BSO patrols on Pat Salerno Drive kept the postshow exit through the Sawgrass Mills parking field moving steadily into Sawgrass Expressway.

The tour continues through April with a string of dates across the southeastern United States before heading north for the late-spring run. The next stop on the schedule is Tampa.