Panic of Girls Tour

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Panic of Girls Tour
Tour by Blondie
Associated album Panic of Girls
Start dateJuly 7, 2011
End dateOctober 9, 2011
Legs2
No. of shows
  • 18 in Europe
  • 24 in North America
  • 42 total
Blondie concert chronology
  • Endangered Species Tour
    (2010)
  • Panic of Girls Tour
    (2011)
  • Whip It to Shreds Tour
    (2012)

Panic of Girls Tour was a 2011 concert tour by the American new wave band Blondie, made as part of the support of their album Panic of Girls .

Contents

Background

Like the band's previous concert tour, the Endangered Species Tour 2010, this tour also promoted Panic of Girls. [1]

The tour kicked on July 6 at the Optimus Alive! Festival in Portugal and visited Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom during the first leg and the United States and Canada during the second. [2] [3]

Set list

Average setlist (data from 20 shows)
  1. "Union City Blue"
  2. "Dreaming"
  3. "Atomic"
  4. "D-Day"
  5. "Hanging on the Telephone"
  6. "Call Me"
  7. "Maria"
  8. "Girlie Girlie"
  9. "What I Heard"
  10. "China Shoes"
  11. "Wipe Off My Sweat"
  12. "Mother"
  13. "Horizontal Twist"
  14. "Rapture" (with "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)") (Beastie Boys cover)
  15. "One Way or Another"
    Encore
  16. "Love Doesn't Frighten Me" (performed after "Call Me" during selected dates)
  17. "Heart of Glass"

The average setlist does not represent all of the shows of the tour. "D-Day" and "Mother" also opened the show on several occasions. "Rapture" also closed the show a few times, and "Heart of Glass" closed the show during one concert without an encore. The festival sets were usually shorter than the average sets, missing out several songs. The band was performing songs from different periods of their career and some covers, but the main part of the show are songs from their new album. Songs featured in several shows of the tour but not in the average setlist include the following:

From Blondie

From Parallel Lines

Covers

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
Europe
July 6, 2011 Oeiras Portugal Optimus Alive!
July 7, 2011 Bilbao Spain BBK Live Festival
July 10, 2011 Kinross United Kingdom T in the Park
July 11, 2011London Kew Gardens [4]
July 13, 2011 Somerset House
July 14, 2011 Amsterdam Netherlands Paradiso
July 15, 2011 Lichtenvoorde De Schans
July 17, 2011LondonUnited Kingdom Lovebox Festival
July 19, 2011 Dublin Ireland Olympia Theatre [5]
July 20, 2011 Galway Festival Big Top [6]
July 22, 2011 York United Kingdom York Racecourse
July 23, 2011 Abbots Ripton Secret Garden Party
July 24, 2011 Nottingham Splendour Festival
July 26, 2011 Douglas Isle of Man Gaiety Theatre
July 28, 2011 Epsom United Kingdom Epsom Downs Racecourse
July 29, 2011 Dorset Camp Bestival
July 31, 2011 Hackthorpe Kendal Calling Festival [5]
August 1, 2011 Liverpool O2 Academy Liverpool
North America
September 3, 2011 Harris United States Island Resort and Casino
September 4, 2011 Prior Lake Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
September 5, 2011 Council Bluffs Harrah's Stir Cove
September 7, 2011Chicago House of Blues
September 9, 2011 Windsor Canada The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
September 10, 2011 Orillia Casino Rama
September 12, 2011New York CityUnited States Highline Ballroom
September 13, 2011
September 14, 2011 Boston Wilbur Theatre
September 16, 2011 Atlantic City The Borgata
September 17, 2011 Clark UC Music Fest
September 18, 2011 Westbury NYCB Theatre
September 20, 2011 Silver Spring The Fillmore
September 21, 2011 Durham Durham Performing Arts Center
September 23, 2011 Alpharetta Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
September 26, 2011 Hollywood Hard Rock Live
September 28, 2011 New Orleans Mahalia Jackson Theatre
September 29, 2011 Austin Moody Theater
October 1, 2011 Dallas Granada Theatre
October 2, 2011 Mescalero Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino
October 5, 2011Los Angeles Club Nokia
October 7, 2011 Saratoga Mountain Winery
October 8, 2011 Las Vegas The Beach at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
October 9, 2011 Palm Desert McCallum Theatre [7]

Cancelled dates

DateCityCountryVenue
September 24, 2011 Clearwater United States Ruth Eckerd Hall
October 4, 2011 Phoenix The Foundry

Personnel

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