Exit... Stage Left Tour

Exit... Stage Left Tour
Tour by Rush
Location	Europe; North America;
Associated album	Exit... Stage Left
Start date	October 29, 1981
End date	December 22, 1981
Legs	2
No. of shows	34
Rush concert chronology
	; Moving Pictures Tour ; (1980–1981); ; Exit... Stage Left Tour ; (1981); ; Signals Tour ; (1982–1983);

The Exit... Stage Left Tour was a concert tour by Canadian rock band Rush, in support of the band's second live album Exit... Stage Left and its accompanying video.

Background

The European leg of the tour was supported by Girlschool.^[1] Riot was the opening act for the band on the North American leg, performing in arenas.^[2]

Set list

This is an example set list adapted from Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth – The Official Touring History of what were performed during the tour, but may not represent the majority of the shows.^[3] The set list was similar to the setlist from the previous tour, but featured the song "Subdivisions" which would later be featured on the band's 1982 studio album Signals. "New World Man" and "Chemistry" were both performed only at the soundchecks before a show.^[4]^[5]

"2112: Overture/Temples of Syrinx"
"Freewill"
"Limelight"
"Book II: Hemispheres – Prelude"
"Beneath, Between and Behind"
"Subdivisions"
"The Camera Eye"
"YYZ"
"Broon's Bane"
"The Trees"
"Xanadu"
"The Spirit of Radio"
"Red Barchetta"
"Closer to the Heart"
"Tom Sawyer"
"Vital Signs"
"Working Man"
"Book II: Hemispheres – Armageddon"
"By-Tor and the Snow Dog"
"In the End"
"In the Mood"
"2112: Grand Finale"
Encore
"La Villa Strangiato"

Tour dates

List of 1981 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and opening act(s)^[6]^[7]
Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening Act(s)
October 29, 1981	Stafford	England	New Bingley Hall	N/a
October 30, 1981	Stafford	England	New Bingley Hall
October 31, 1981	Queensferry	Wales	Deeside Leisure Centre
November 2, 1981	Brighton	England	Brighton Centre
November 4, 1981	London		Wembley Arena
November 5, 1981
November 6, 1981
November 8, 1981	Ingliston	Scotland	Royal Highland Centre
November 9, 1981	Stafford	England	New Bingley Hall
November 11, 1981	Hamburg	West Germany	Musikhalle	Girlschool
November 12, 1981	Neunkirchen am Brand	West Germany	Hemmerleinhalle
November 14, 1981	Rotterdam	Netherlands	Ahoy Sportpaleis
November 16, 1981	Munich	West Germany	Circus Krone
November 17, 1981	Rüsselsheim am Main		Walter-Köbel-Halle
November 18, 1981	Böblingen		Sporthalle
November 19, 1981	Böblingen		Sporthalle
November 20, 1981	Karlsruhe		Schwarzwaldhalle
November 21, 1981	Essen		Grugahalle
November 28, 1981	Pembroke Pines	United States	Hollywood Sportatorium	Riot
November 29, 1981^[8]	Jacksonville		Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum
December 1, 1981	Birmingham		Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center
December 2, 1981	Nashville		Nashville Municipal Auditorium
December 4, 1981	Charlotte		Charlotte Coliseum
December 5, 1981	Fayetteville		Cumberland County Memorial Arena
December 6, 1981	Greensboro		Greensboro Coliseum
December 8, 1981	Knoxville		Knoxville Civic Coliseum
December 9, 1981	Atlanta		The Omni
December 11, 1981	Greenville		Greenville Memorial Auditorium
December 12, 1981	Johnson City		Freedom Hall Civic Center
December 13, 1981	Roanoke		Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum
December 15, 1981	Norfolk		Scope Arena
December 20, 1981	Hartford		Hartford Civic Center
December 21, 1981	East Rutherford		Brendan Bryne Meadowlands Arena
December 22, 1981	East Rutherford		Brendan Bryne Meadowlands Arena

Box office score data

List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date (1981)	City	Venue	Attendance	Gross	Ref(s)
December 1	Birmingham, United States	Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center	7,398 / 9,000	$70,281	^[9]
December 2	Nashville, United States	Municipal Auditorium	9,900	$83,742
December 4	Charlotte, United States	Coliseum	12,562	$111,616
December 6	Greensboro, United States	Coliseum	8,192 / 10,000	$76,826
December 11	Greenville, United States	Memorial Auditorium	7,000	$60,735	^[10]

Personnel

Geddy Lee – vocals, bass, keyboards
Alex Lifeson – guitar, backing vocals
Neil Peart – drums

References

Citations

^ Popoff 2013, p. 74.
^ Popoff 2021, pp. 101–102.
^ Daly & Hansen 2019, p. 218.
^ Popoff 2021, p. 101.
^ Daly & Hansen 2019, p. 214.
^ Daly & Hansen 2019, pp. 218–221.
^ "Exit... Stage Left Tour". Rush.com. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
^ "Dead-Brothers Concert Turns Out to Be Turkey". No. 38. Ocala, Florida: Ocala Star-Banner. November 26, 1981. p. 4B. Retrieved June 8, 2022. Rush, a group of Canadian rockers, is scheduled to play at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Jacksonville Coliseum
^ "Boxscore". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 50. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 19, 1981. p. 29. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
^ "Boxscore". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 51. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 26, 1981. p. 44. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 11, 2022.

Sources

Popoff, Martin (2013). Rush: The Illustrated History. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-1-61058-726-6.
Daly, Skip; Hansen, Eric (2019). Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth – The Official Touring History. Insight Editions. ISBN 978-1-68383-450-2.
Popoff, Martin (2021). Limelight: Rush in the '80s. Toronto, Canada: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-77041-569-0.

[FOOTNOTEPopoff201374-1] Popoff 2013, p. 74.

[FOOTNOTEPopoff2021101–102-2] Popoff 2021, pp. 101–102.

[FOOTNOTEDalyHansen2019218-3] Daly & Hansen 2019, p. 218.

[FOOTNOTEPopoff2021101-4] Popoff 2021, p. 101.

[FOOTNOTEDalyHansen2019214-5] Daly & Hansen 2019, p. 214.

[FOOTNOTEDalyHansen2019218–221-6] Daly & Hansen 2019, pp. 218–221.

[7] "Exit... Stage Left Tour". Rush.com. Retrieved June 8, 2022.

[8] "Dead-Brothers Concert Turns Out to Be Turkey". No. 38. Ocala, Florida: Ocala Star-Banner. November 26, 1981. p. 4B. Retrieved June 8, 2022. Rush, a group of Canadian rockers, is scheduled to play at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Jacksonville Coliseum

[9] "Boxscore". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 50. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 19, 1981. p. 29. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 11, 2022.

[10] "Boxscore". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 51. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 26, 1981. p. 44. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 11, 2022.

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v t e Rush
Alex Lifeson Geddy Lee Neil Peart Jeff Jones John Rutsey
Studio albums	Rush (1974) Fly by Night (1975) Caress of Steel (1975) 2112 (1976) A Farewell to Kings (1977) Hemispheres (1978) Permanent Waves (1980) Moving Pictures (1981) Signals (1982) Grace Under Pressure (1984) Power Windows (1985) Hold Your Fire (1987) Presto (1989) Roll the Bones (1991) Counterparts (1993) Test for Echo (1996) Vapor Trails (2002) Snakes & Arrows (2007) Clockwork Angels (2012)
Live albums	All the World's a Stage (1976) Exit... Stage Left (1981) A Show of Hands (1989) Different Stages (1998) Rush in Rio (2003) Snakes & Arrows Live (2008) Grace Under Pressure Tour (2009) Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011) Clockwork Angels Tour (2013) R40 Live (2015)
Live videos	Exit... Stage Left (1982) Grace Under Pressure Tour (1986) A Show of Hands (1989) Rush in Rio (2003) R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour (2005) Rush Replay X 3 (2006) Snakes & Arrows Live (2008) Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011) Clockwork Angels Tour (2013) R40 Live (2015)
Compilations	Rush Through Time (1979) Chronicles (1990) Retrospective I (1997) Retrospective II (1997) The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974–1987 (2003) Gold (2006) Retrospective III: 1989–2008 (2009) Working Men (2009)
Video compilations	Through the Camera Eye (1985) Chronicles (1990)
Box sets	The Studio Albums 1989–2007 (2013)
Extended plays	Feedback (2004) Cygnus X-1 (2017)
Singles	"In the Mood" "Fly by Night" "Lakeside Park" "The Twilight Zone" "Making Memories" "Closer to the Heart" "Circumstances" "The Trees" "The Spirit of Radio" "Entre Nous" "Limelight" "Tom Sawyer" "Vital Signs" "New World Man" "Subdivisions" "Countdown" "Red Sector A" "Afterimage" "The Big Money" "Mystic Rhythms" "Time Stand Still" "Show Don't Tell" "The Pass" "Dreamline" "Roll the Bones" "Ghost of a Chance" "Stick It Out" "Nobody's Hero" "Test for Echo" "Half the World" "Driven" "One Little Victory" "Secret Touch" "Summertime Blues" "Far Cry" "Spindrift" "Caravan" "Headlong Flight"
Other songs	"Working Man" "Before" and "After" I. "Into the Darkness" "Didacts and Narpets" "2112" "A Passage to Bangkok" "Tears" "Xanadu" "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" (II. "Apollo Bringer of Wisdom" and III. "Dionysus Bringer of Love" IV. "Armageddon The Battle of Heart and Mind" VI. "The Sphere A Kind of Dream") "Freewill" "Red Barchetta" "YYZ" "Witch Hunt" "The Analog Kid" "Between the Wheels" "Marathon" "Manhattan Project" "Force Ten" "Mission" "Lock and Key" "Second Nature" "Heresy" "Animate" "Cold Fire" "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)"
Tours	Hemispheres Tour (1978–1979) Moving Pictures Tour (1980–1981) Exit... Stage Left Tour (1981) Power Windows Tour (1985–1986) Hold Your Fire Tour (1987–1988) Presto Tour (1990) Roll the Bones Tour (1991–1992) Counterparts Tour (1994) Test for Echo Tour (1996–1997) Snakes & Arrows Tour (2007–2008) Time Machine Tour (2010–2011) Clockwork Angels Tour (2012–2013) R40 Live Tour (2015) Fifty Something Tour (2026–2027)
Related articles	Discography Songs Awards Instrumentals Victor My Favourite Headache A Work in Progress Anatomy of a Drum Solo Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road Hugh Syme Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage Working Man – A Tribute to Rush
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Rush concert chronology
Tour by Rush
Location	Europe North America
Associated album	Exit... Stage Left
Start date	October 29, 1981
End date	December 22, 1981
Legs	2
No. of shows	34
Moving Pictures Tour (1980–1981) Exit... Stage Left Tour (1981) Signals Tour (1982–1983)