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Exile Tour

Concert by Hurts
Exile Tour Poster
Location	Europe, Asia
Associated album	Exile
Start date	February 7, 2013 (2013-02-07)
End date	August 7, 2014 (2014-08-07)
No. of shows	79 76 in Europe 3 in Asia
Hurts concert chronology
Happiness Tour (2010–2012) Exile Tour (2013–2014) Desire Tour (2017-2018)

The Exile Tour is the second concert tour by British band Hurts in support of their second album Exile. On 11 December 2012, Theo Hutchcraft posted an image on Twitter which announced the first 14 dates of the tour. Autumn 2013 dates were published by Hutchcraft on Twitter on 26 August 2013. The tour started on 5 October in Ukraine and will end on 22 November in Luxembourg, with 21 dates in total. In February and March 2014 Hurts took a part in Art on Ice Tour. Hurts was accompanied by the Youth Classics orchestra at the six shows in Zürich in February and March.

Background

At the beginning of the show, Hutchcraft appears on the scene wearing a hooded parka and leather gloves. He takes the parka off after the first song. As in the previous Happiness Tour, he throws white roses into the crowd. During "The Road", he breaks the microphone stand. Adam Anderson performs most of the songs while sitting at the synthesizer, but during "Exile", "Miracle", "Evelyn", and "The Road", "Mercy", "Help", "Cupid" and acoustic version of "Blood Tears & Gold" he stands up and plays the guitar. For the encore, they perform their song "Stay" at the first leg of tour. The light design team has a trailer with scenery and 20,000 lights for each show. Unlike the previous tour, where dramatically dressed dancers followed the duo on stage, this tour focuses on the performance itself. Dancers appeared on stage at most of the many summer festivals since Rock im Park in Germany on 7 June.

On 25 October Hurts get new stage lighting equipment.

Hurts used red and white confetti at the end of the song called "Help" at their show at Troxy in London, 26 October 2013.

Instruments for performances: synthesizers; guitars "Manson", "Gretsch", "Fender Telecaster", "Fender Stratocaster", "Fender Precision Bass", effects unit "TC Electronic", "Mesa Boogie"; drums "Sonor", "Paiste"; saxophone, clarinet, viola, violins, cello.

Reception

Reviewers unanimously admit there is more drama in the new shows, agreeing that the emotional connection between the band and the crowd is stronger than ever.

Opening acts

• Say Lou Lou (select dates in February, March, November 2013)
• Uniqplan (Warsaw, 20 March 2013)
• Make My Heart Explode (Prague, 28 March 2013)
• Bahroma (Kyiv, 5 October 2013)
• Pawws (UK, 25–26 October 2013)
• Golden Parazyth (Tallinn, 3 November 2013; Riga, 4 November 2013;
  Vilnius, 6 November 2013)
• XXANAXX (Warsaw, 7 November 2013)
• Glasvegas (Germany, 10–15 November 2013)
• Pegasus (Germany, 10–15 November 2013; Bern, 18 November 2013;
  Brussels 20 November 2013; Utrecht, 21 November 2013)

Setlist

The tour's setlist generally consists of half of the songs from Happiness and half from Exile.

1. "Exile"
2. "Miracle"
3. "Wonderful Life"
4. "Silver Lining"
5. "Blind"
6. "Evelyn"
7. "Cupid"
8. "Sunday"
9. "Sandman"
10. "Blood, Tears & Gold"
11. "Unspoken"
12. "Illuminated"
13. "The Road"

Encore:

14. "Somebody to Die For"
15. "Better Than Love"
16. "Stay"

Notes

• "Blood, Tears and Gold" was on the set list but wasn't played 7 February 2013
• "Somebody To Die For" popped into set list since 14 March 2013
• "Somebody To Die For" in acoustic version was played 7 February – 20 March 2013
• "Cupid" was played 7 February – 20 March 2013
• "Sandman" popped into set list since 20 March 2013

1. "Exile"
2. "Miracle"
3. "Wonderful Life"
4. "Somebody to Die For"
5. "Silver Lining"
6. "Evelyn"
7. "Sunday"
8. "Blood, Tears & Gold"
9. "Army of Me" (Björk cover)
10. "Sandman"
11. "Blind"
12. "The Road"
13. "Unspoken"
14. "Illuminated"
15. "Better Than Love"

Encore:

16. "Stay"

Notes

• "Army of Me" (Björk cover) was played since 7 June 2013
• "Silver Lining", "Blood Tears and Gold", "Army Of Me", "Blind",
  "The Road", "Unspoken" were out of set list in selected dates

Intro

1. "Mercy"
2. "Miracle"
3. "Silver Lining"
4. "Wonderful Life"
5. "Somebody to Die For"
6. "Blind"
7. "Evelyn"
8. "Cupid"
9. "Unspoken"
10. "The Crow"
11. "Ohne Dich" (Selig cover, acoustic)
12. "Blood, Tears & Gold" (acoustic)
13. "Exile"
14. "Sandman"
15. "Sunday"
16. "Stay"
17. "Illuminated"
18. "The Road"

Encore:

19. "Better Than Love"
20. "Help"

Notes

• "Ohne Dich" (Selig cover, acoustic) was played in Germany in November 2013

1. "Silver Lining"
2. "Wonderful Life"
3. "Evelyn"
4. "Somebody to Die For"
5. "The Water"
6. "Stay"
7. "Miracle"

1. "Mercy"
2. "Miracle"
3. "Silver Lining"
4. "Wonderful Life"
5. "Somebody to Die For"
6. "Blind"
7. "Evelyn"
8. "Cupid"
9. "Unspoken"
10. "Blood, Tears & Gold" (acoustic)
11. "Exile"
12. "Sandman"
13. "Sunday"
14. "Illuminated"
15. "Stay"

Encore:

16. "Better Than Love"

Tour dates

Notes

The show in Amsterdam was originally scheduled at the Old Hall, but it was moved to The Max.

This performance is a part of Art on Ice Tour.

Cancelled dates

Personnel

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