The Not Your Kind of People Tour is the fifth world
concert tour cycle by American/Scottish
alternative rock group
Garbage
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. The tour launched May 2012 in Los Angeles, United States and included headline performances and festival appearances throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
The tour also routed South America and several festivals in Australia during 2013.
The tour marks the first Garbage concerts since 2007; and the first tour since the
Bleed Like Me tour was ended in October 2005. "Thinking about going back on the road is both thrilling and terrifying in equal measure", lead singer
Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish musician and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the American alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and di ...
stated in a
press release for the launch of the album and tour; "…but we’ve always enjoyed a little pain mixed in with our pleasure."
The band's touring line-up is augmented by the addition of
Eric Avery on
bass guitar. Tour rehearsals took place in Los Angeles throughout March.
A
DVD/
Blu-ray release of the
Denver,
Colorado show was released in May 2013, titled ''
One Mile High... Live''.
Tour itinerary
In late 2011, Garbage announced their return to touring upon the release of ''Not Your Kind of People''.
The tour kicked off in United States
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Canada
* Britis ...
, running through a few
mountain states and
Texas and then route into Europe for headline shows in United Kingdom, France and Russia before returning to North America to perform shows on the
East Coast
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and Canada. The tour then made its way back to Europe for Garbage to perform their own headline shows in Netherlands,
Luxembourg and across the United Kingdom, and to appear on the bills of
rock festivals across Europe.
Further performances were scheduled in Canada and Japan. The late April concerts in Texas, Colorado and Utah were rescheduled due to personal problems of
Duke Erikson.
Broadcast and recordings
According to the band, MTV Hive would livestream the concert from Webster Hall as part of its monthly Live in NYC series, making the full performance available for on-demand viewing the following week after the concert. "So excited that MTV is filming our first show in NYC for more than seven years. It's going to be a pretty special night for us", lead singer Shirley Manson tells The Hollywood Reporter. "The gig sold out in 5 minutes flat so we know its going to be full of hardcore fans who have been waiting on our new record with unbelievable patience and overwhelming enthusiasm."
Opening acts
*
Laura Escudé (select dates)
*
The Jezabels (select dates)
*
Screaming Females (select dates)
*
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* Saikō, a Japanese era
* Saiko (band), a Chilean rock band
* Saiko Lake, in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
People
* Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Japanese painter, poet and calligrapher
* Jean-Philippe Saïko (born 1990), New Caledo ...
(Santiago)
*
Coockoo (Russia)
*
The Cubes
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(Bratislava)
*Private Life
(Australia) (http://www.privatelifeband.com)
*
Superbus (Europe)
*
Io ECHO (North America)
*White Mystery
(Richmond) (http://www.whitemysteryband.com)
Setlists
The tour set list omits less well known songs for festival appearances. Upon the commencement of the tour, Garbage performed "
Temptation Waits
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", "
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"The Trick Is to Keep Breathing" is a song by Garbage, released as the joint-fourth single from their platinum second album ''Version 2.0''. The single was released in a number of European countries including Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal an ...
" and "
The World Is Not Enough" for the first time in a few tour cycles. Newly debuted tracks from ''Not Your Kind of People'' were "Automatic Systematic Habit", "Blood for Poppies", "Control", "Man on a Wire" and "Battle In Me". Songs introduced during the run include "Milk", "Cup of Coffee" and "You Look So Fine" returned to the set over the course of the tour, while ''Not Your Kind of People'' tracks "Big Bright World", "Not Your Kind of People", "The One", "Beloved Freak" and "I Hate Love" were debuted and performed in concert, while a cover of "
Because the Night
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" was introduced in 2013.
During this tour, Shirley quoted lines from
Fleetwood Mac
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's "
Dreams" and
Freedy Johnston
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Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation, and disappoint ...
's "
This Perfect World
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It is an album steeped in regret and loss. The narrator of "Across the Avenue" is unable to get past the memory of seein ...
" on the outro for "You Look So Fine",
Donna Summer
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's "
Love To Love You Baby" on the intro of "Stupid Girl", and
Madonna
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's "
Erotic
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" on the intro to "#1 Crush". In addition to interpolating from "Talk of the Town" by The Pretenders on "Special", Shirley also quoted lines from their cover of "
I Go to Sleep".
A number of intro tape samples were used throughout the tour, including the band's own then-unreleased song "
Time Will Destroy Everything" as the lead tape. The "
tears in rain
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" monologue from ''
Blade Runner'' preceded "Hammering In My Head".
Tour dates
;Cancellations and rescheduled shows
Box office score data
Promotional performances
References
External links
Garbage official website
{{Garbage
2012 concert tours
2013 concert tours
Garbage (band) concert tours