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The No Principals Tour 2013 was a 2013 North America-only single-leg tour by Blondie to promote their upcoming album Ghosts of Download. It visited venues, mainly theatres, in the United States, as well as a few festivals and outdoor shows, culminating in two shows in Mexico. The tour was a co-production, with Blondie being labeled as the main bill and X performing a shorter set before Blondie took the stage.

Background

The tour was officially announced through Blondie's website on June 18, 2013, with tickets going on sale on June 21 (presales were available the previous day). The tour was announced whilst Blondie were in the middle of their UK Blast Off Tour. Each ticket purchased for the tour included digital downloads of five songs from the Ghosts of Download album. These were "Make a Way", "I Want to Drag You Around", "Can't Stop Wanting", "A Rose by Any Name" and "I Screwed Up". Rehearsals were held during August 2013 in New York.

Despite being marketed as a separate tour to the previous Blondie Blast Off Tour, which took place earlier in the same year, the two tours shared setlists, more or less, with only a few differences. A new song from Ghosts od Download, "Mile High", was introduced during the tour.

Opening acts

• X (September 5-October 4)

Set list

1. "Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not"
2. "Sugarlight"
3. "Nausea"
4. "Breathless" (Jerry Lee Lewis cover)
5. "In This House That I Call Home"
6. "White Girl"
7. "True Love"
8. "Los Angeles"
9. "The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss"
10. "The Hungry Wolf"
11. "Year One"
12. "The New World"
13. "Because I Do"
14. "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene"
15. "Motel Room in My Bed"
16. "Soul Kitchen" (The Doors cover)
17. "Devil Doll"

Notes

• The songs "Blue Spark", "The Once Over Twice", "The Unheard Music", "It's Who You Know" and "Beyond and Back" were also performe during the tour
• Eddie Vedder joined X onstage on September 17

1. "One Way or Another"
2. "Rave"
3. "Hanging on the Telephone"
4. "Union City Blue" (apart from October 3)
5. "X Offender" (October 3)
6. "A Rose by Any Name"
7. "The Tide is High"
8. "I Want to Drag You Around" (selected dates)
9. "Maria"
10. "Winter" (selected dates)
11. "Rapture (contains "No Sleep till Brooklyn")
12. "Atomic"
13. "What I Heard"
14. "Wipe Off My Sweat" (selected dates)
15. "Sugar on the Side"
16. "Heart of Glass
    Encore
17. "Take Me in the Night" or "Mile High" or "Hollywood Babylon" (Misfits cover)
18. "Call Me"
19. "Relax" (selected dates) (Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover)
20. "Dreaming"

Notes

• During the second show of the tour on September 6, "Rapture" was performed at the beginning of the encore. For all subsequentshows it appeared after "Winter".
• "Take Me in the Night" was performed nearer the start of the tour before disappearing. "Mile High" was first performed on September 19, and appeared in nearly all subsequent shows, with "Hollywood Babylon" sometimes replacing it, and "Take Me in the Night" returning at the end of the tour.

1. "One Way or Another"
2. "Take Me in the Night"
3. "Hanging on the Telephone"
4. "Union City Blue"
5. "Mile High"
6. "A Rose by Any Name"
7. "I Want to Drag You Around"
8. "Maria"
9. "Winter"
10. "Rapture
11. "Atomic"
12. "What I Heard"
13. "Wipe Off My Sweat"
14. "Sugar on the Side"
15. "Heart of Glass
    Encore
16. "X Offender"
17. "Hollywood Babylon" (Misfits cover)
18. "Rave" (with Miss Guy)
19. "Call Me"
20. "Dreaming"
21. "The Tide is High" (with What Cheer Brigade)

Notes

• This was the final show with X, and so an extended setlist was performed.
• "Take Me in the Night" and "Mile High", normally performed in the encore, went to the beginning of the show.
• "Hollywood Babylon" was performed.
• Miss Guy appeared on "Rave" as a guest - "Rave" normally appeared second in the set.
• For the only time, "The Tide is High" closed the show, with What Cheer Brigade appearing.

Tour dates

Reception

The tour met with generally positive reactions.

Personnel

Blondie

• Debbie Harry - vocals
• Chris Stein - guitars
• Clem Burke - drums
• Matt Katz-Bohen - keyboards, piano, organ
• Leigh Foxx - bass
• Tommy Kessler - guitars

X

• Exene Cervenka - vocals
• Billy Zoom - guitars
• DJ Bonebrake - drums
• John Doe - bass

Others

• Security parrot - security

References

1. ^ "TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: "No Principals Tour"". blonie.net. June 18, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
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5. "X Setlist at Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA, USA". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
6. "Blondie average setlist for tour: No Principals Tour". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
7. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blondie/2013/930-club-washington-dc-2bc64c0e.html
8. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blondie/2013/pnc-pavilion-at-riverbend-cincinnati-oh-3c7bdf3.html
9. http://rocksubculture.com/2013/09/20/blondie-with-x-no-principals-tour-at-nob-hill-masonic-auditorium-san-francisco-california-9192013-concert-review/
10. "CALENDAR & TOUR SCHEDULE 2013". deborah-harry.com. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
11. http://www.buffalonews.com/gusto/concert-reviews/blondie-casts-a-spell-in-rapids-theatre-20130907
12. http://instagram.com/p/dFU68lhxUH/

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