Nickelback set to take stage at Birmingham NIA

When Canadian rockers Nickelback take the stage at Birmigham's NIA on Tuesday, there are a selection of songs you can pretty much guarantee you'll hear.

Burn It To The Ground, for instance, is a live favourite, that singer Chad Kroeger never tires of.

"Burn It To The Ground is my favourite song that we play live every night. When you've got everybody doing the devil horns and 40ft flames shooting into the air, you can feel the energy in that room, it's the best," he said.

Inevitably, tunes like How You Remind Me and Rock Star will also make the cut.

Chad adds: "I like How You Remind Me. I didn't want to just write a big hit song, I wanted to write a great song. Anyone who wants to write songs wants to write a great song.

"Everyone who writes songs would like to write one that the entire world sings along to. I like that song, I like Rock Star. I like those tunes.

"That wasn't us just sitting around thinking 'let's just make a catchy song and cash in'. Those songs give me the same feeling I had when I first played them."

Another tune that's likely to feature in the playlist is the epic When We Stand Together, which has proved one of the stand outs from their new Here and Now album, which was released last year.

Chad says: "That was just about trying to bring awareness to a lot of issues that are going on in the world. Without being too specific, it's trying to make the world a better place."

The song was written in half an hour and followed a number of natural disasters, including an earthquake and a tsunami.

Chad adds: "It just came from a place where, any time you turn on the news and you see stuff... Look, there was an accident where a guy on his motorcycle went under a vehicle and got trapped and a fire started.

"He was burning alive under the car. And there were about 30 people around him. And everybody realised, 'hey, if we just walk over, we can pick this car up and save this guy's life'.

"The only thing that mattered at the time was that there was one human being whose life was in danger, and they went over and picked up the car and pulled that guy out and he lived.

"And it's stories like that that make you think maybe we're not doomed. Just an act like that, you can show what happens when you get together with a unified cause. I love stories like that."