Panic of Girls Tour

2011 concert tour by Blondie

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

Cancelled dates

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.