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The No Principals Tour 2013 was a 2013 North America-only single-leg tour by Blondie to promote their new 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 tour Blast Off. Each ticket purchased for the tour included digital downloads of five songs from the Ghosts of Download album. These were "Sugar On The Side", "Drag You Around", "Can't Stop Wanting", "I Screwed Up" and "Make A Way". Rehearsals were held during August 2013 in New York.

Opening acts

• X (September 5-October 4)

Set list

• Despite being marketed as a separate tour to the earlier Blast Off Tour, which took place earlier in the same year, the two tours share setlists, more or less, with only a few differences.

1. "Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not"
2. "Sugarlight"
3. "Breathless" (Jerry Lee Lewis cover)
4. "Blue Spark"
5. "The Once Over Twice"
6. "In This House That I Call Home"
7. "Los Angeles"
8. "The Unheard Music"
9. "The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss"
10. "Hungry Wolf"
11. "Year One"
12. "The New World"
13. "Because I Do"
14. "It's Who You Know"
15. "Motel Room in My Bed"
16. "Soul Kitchen" (The Doors cover)
17. "Devil Doll"

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. "Drag You Around" (some dates)
9. "Maria"
10. "Winter" (some dates)
11. "Rapture (contains No Sleep till Brooklyn)
12. "Atomic"
13. "What I Heard"
14. "Wipe Off My Sweat" (some 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 (Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover)" (some dates)
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. "Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not"
2. "Sex and Dying In High Society"
3. "Beyond & Back"
4. "Adult Books"
5. "Breathless" (Jerry Lee Lewis cover)
6. "We're Desperate"
7. "Los Angeles"
8. "The Unheard Music"
9. "Hungry Wolf"
10. "Year One"
11. "World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss"
12. "Sugarlight"
13. "I'm Coming Over"
14. "Nausea"
15. "Johnny Hit and Run"
16. "Motel Room In My Bed"
17. "Soul Kitchen" (The Doors cover)
18. "Devil Doll"

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. "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. http://www.blondie.net/tour-announcement-no-principals-tour/
2. http://www.blondie.net/tour-announcement-no-principals-tour/
3. http://instagram.com/p/dDGzZIBxSv/#
4. http://instagram.com/p/dFU68lhxUH/
5. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/x/2013/930-club-washington-dc-2bc644ba.html
6. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blondie/2013/930-club-washington-dc-2bc64c0e.html
7. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blondie/2013/pnc-pavilion-at-riverbend-cincinnati-oh-3c7bdf3.html
8. http://rocksubculture.com/2013/09/20/blondie-with-x-no-principals-tour-at-nob-hill-masonic-auditorium-san-francisco-california-9192013-concert-review/
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. http://www.deborah-harry.com/tour/
11. http://www.blondie.net/tour-announcement-no-principals-tour/
12. http://www.blondie.net/shows/
13. http://www.buffalonews.com/gusto/concert-reviews/blondie-casts-a-spell-in-rapids-theatre-20130907
14. http://instagram.com/p/dFU68lhxUH/

• Blondie (band) concert tours
• 2013 concert tours