Paloma Faith Autumn Tour 2014

Paloma Faith Autumn Tour 2014

Tour by Paloma Faith
Promotional poster for the tour.
Associated album	A Perfect Contradiction
Start date	23 May 2014
End date	5 September 2015
No. of shows	79 in Europe 9 in North America 3 in Oceania 91 in total
Paloma Faith concert chronology

Paloma Faith announced in March 2014 during promotion for her third studio album, "A Perfect Contradiction", that a few UK tour dates were in preparation, to be followed by a complete tour in the Autumn. These initial dates were announced in the form of four dates taking place in Ipswich, Cambridge and London in May 2014. Following this, on 31 March 2014, Faith announced via her Facebook the rest of the tour dates, taking place in October and November 2014.^[1][2][3] Faith stated that she was excited to perform songs from her new album. The tour is also to include several festival dates in Europe.

Background

Faith stated, of her 7 September show at Bestival: "Bestival is the best festival because everyone gets dressed up and I will be too, dressing my band up... It's so perfect that I should be invited to play at this festival this year because my new album, which is called A Perfect Contradiction, was all influenced by the history of soul music, particularly disco. So, I was listening to artists like Candi Staton, Prince, Chaka Khan, Gloria Gaynor, all of those types of artists, Parliament, Funkadelic, the lot... It is my favourite festival without a doubt, I’m so excited, see you there!"^[4] She also made the comment that: "I am incredibly excited to perform this new album live. It's a real ‘get up and dance’ record so let's do that and bring the roof down!"

Faith announced dates for Australia and the United States and a UK arena tour in August–September 2014.^[5][6][7] On 22 September 2014, Faith announced the postponement of her European dates from December 2014 to February 2015.^[8] She also announced the cancellation of an Oregon date on 2 October 2014.^[9]

In January 2015 it was announced that Faith would perform at the seven concerts of 2015's edition of the Forest Live festival. Faith previously appeared at the 2013 events.^[10] Additional concerts at several music festivals were announced in January 2015, as well as a Croatian concert.

Crew

• LiveNation & SGM Concerts – tour promoter
• Paloma Faith – vocals
• Baby N'sola, Janelle Martin & Naomi 'Nim' Miller – backing vocals
• Banks – musical director, programmer, guitar, synths
• Sam Lewis – guitar
• Andrea Goldsworthy – bass
• Peter Daley – piano, synths
• Gareth Brown – drums
• James Gardner-Bateman & Brandon Allen – saxophone
• Reuben Fowler & Freddie Gavita – trumpet
• Nichol Thomson – trombone
• David Odlum – musical director
• Pete Hillier – tour manager
• Derek Fudge – production manager
• Amanda Barker – production assistant
• Tim Allcock – stage manager
• Huw Richards – front-of-house engineer
• Perttu Korteniemi – front-of-house tech
• James Neale – monitor engineer
• Will Taylor – monitor tech
• Tony Austin – lighting designer
• Brendan Albrey & Sudip Shresthna – lighting tech
• Dave Gilchrist & Steve Hussey – backline tech
• Karl Willet – stylist
• Adele Pentland & Leanne Ma – wardrobe
• Natalia Kaut, Giles Deacon & Henry Holland – fashion (Autumn 2014)^[11][12][13]
• Mark Stredwick, Ben Rawling, Nick Taylor, Nicky Ellis & Quincy Medwynter Du Vallon Lohan – for LiveNation

Opening acts

• King Holiday (23–24, 27–28 May 2014)
• Liam Bailey (26 September – 9 October 2014, excl. 1 October)
• Marques Toliver (1 October 2014)
• Brett Dennen (28 October – 25 November 2014)^[14]
• Jake Isaac (26–28 November 2014, 12–21 February 2015)
• Vintage Trouble (12–25 March 2015)^[15]
• Owen Jones (March 25, 2015)
• Joel Culpepper (May 5, 2015)

Setlist

Cancelled and rescheduled dates

• 20 June 2014 – Warsaw, Poland – Pozytywne Wibracje Festival CANCELLED (due to festival cancellation)
• 8 October 2014 – Portland, USA – Wonder Ballroom – CANCELLED (due to a scheduling conflict)
• 5 November 2014 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo – RESCHEDULED TO NOVEMBER 26 (due to illness)
• 6 November 2014 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo – RESCHEDULED TO NOVEMBER 28 (due to illness)
• 8 November 2014 – Plymouth, UK – Plymouth Pavilions – RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 27, 2015 (due to illness)
• 3 December 2014 – Cologne, Germany – Stollwerck – RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 21, 2015; VENUE CHANGED TO 'GLORIA' (due to promotional schedule)
• 4 December 2014 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Paradiso – RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 12, 2015 (due to promotional schedule)
• 5 December 2014 – Berlin, Germany – Postbahnhof – RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 20, 2015 (due to promotional schedule)
• 7 December 2014 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique – RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 18, 2015 (due to promotional schedule)
• 9 December 2014 – Zurich, Switzerland – Kaufleuten – RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 17, 2015 (due to promotional schedule)
• 10 December 2014 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Les Docks – RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 15, 2015 (due to promotional schedule)
• 24 March 2015 – Liverpool, UK – Echo Arena – RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 30, 2015
• 12 May 2015 – Sydney, Australia – State Theatre – CANCELLED (due to illness)
• 14 May 2015 – Adelaide, Australia – AEC Theatre – CANCELLED (due to illness)
• 16 May 2015 – Perth, Australia – Perth Concert Hall – CANCELLED (due to illness)
• 14 July 2015 – Pula, Croatia – Pula Arena Colosseum – CANCELLED (due to unexplained reasons)

Tour dates

Box office score data

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Notes

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