Panic of Girls Tour

Panic of Girls Tour

Tour by Blondie
Associated album	Panic of Girls
Start date	July 7, 2011
End date	October 9, 2011
Legs	2
No. of shows	18 in Europe 24 in North America 42 total
Blondie concert chronology

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.

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

• "Rip Her to Shreds" (performed as the fifth or sixth song)

From Parallel Lines

• "Sunday Girl"

Covers

• "Please Please Me" (The Beatles cover)
• "New Rose" (The Damned cover)
• "See No Evil" (Television cover)
• "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (Johnny Thunders cover) (performed near the end of the show)
• "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement" (The Ramones cover) (performed near the end of the main set)
• "Sharp Dressed Man" (ZZ Top cover) (performed during the encore)

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
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, 2011	London		Kew Gardens[4]
July 13, 2011			Somerset House
July 14, 2011	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Paradiso
July 15, 2011	Lichtenvoorde		De Schans
July 17, 2011	London	United 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, 2011	Chicago		House of Blues
September 9, 2011	Windsor	Canada	The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
September 10, 2011	Orillia		Casino Rama
September 12, 2011	New York City	United 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, 2011	Los 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

Date	City	Country	Venue
September 24, 2011	Clearwater	United States	Ruth Eckerd Hall
October 4, 2011	Phoenix		The Foundry

Personnel

• Debbie Harry – vocals
• Chris Stein – guitar
• Clem Burke – drums, percussion
• Leigh Foxx – bass
• Matt Katz-Bohen – keyboards
• Tommy Kessler – guitar

References

1. "ENDANGERED SPECIES TOUR (UK/Ireland)". deborah-harry.com. June 13, 2010. Archived from the original on November 21, 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
2. "Blondie Announces North American Fall Tour". blondie.net. July 5, 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
3. "Blondie Announce Release Date for New 'Panic of Girls' Album". ultimateclassicrock.com. September 1, 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
4. "First show from the summer tour schedule announced!". blondie.net. February 9, 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
5. "Blondie to play Dublin and Kendal Calling". blondie.net. March 1, 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
6. Devon Antonetti (July 6, 2011). "Blondie announces Panic of Girls release date, fall tour". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
7. "Palm Desert show added to the tour schedule". blondie.net. September 19, 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-21.