Exodus Tour

Not to be confused with Éxodo Tour.

The Exodus Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Exodus Tour

Tour by Bob Marley and the Wailers
Associated album	Exodus
Start date	10 May 1977
End date	4 June 1977
Legs	1
No. of shows	15 in Europe
Bob Marley and the Wailers concert chronology

The tour began at the Pavillon de Paris, Porte de Pantin in Paris, France, on 10 May 1977. During the tour, Marley performed for the first time in Belgium and Denmark. The tour ended in early June after four of the six shows planned at the Rainbow Theatre in London due to a serious toe injury Marley received in a football friendly game with French journalists just before the tour's start.^[1] The tour's second leg in the United States was first postponed and then cancelled.^[2]

The final show has been released on VHS and DVD, labeled Live! at the Rainbow. It is reported that all four London shows have been recorded. The cancellation of the U.S. leg has been suggested as the main reason for Marley's underrated reputation there, as the Exodus album was Marley's route to international superstardom; being honoured as the Greatest Album of the Century by Time in 2000.

On June 12, 2020 all four Rainbow concerts were officially released as a streaming/download only series of albums.^[3][4][5][6]

Setlist

The standard setlist of the tour was the following:

• "Natural Mystic"
• "So Much Things to Say"
• "Guiltiness"
• "Trenchtown Rock"
• "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
• "Concrete Jungle"
• "I Shot the Sheriff"
• "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
• "Lively Up Yourself"
• "Crazy Baldhead" / "Running Away" (medley)
• "War" / "No More Trouble" (medley)
• "The Heathen"
• "Burnin' & Lootin'"
• "Positive Vibration"
• "No Woman, No Cry"
• "Jamming"
• "Get Up, Stand Up"
• "Exodus"

The militant songs from the first side of the Exodus album had all been performed at least once before the tour, whilst performances of the soft love songs from the second side remained widely rare; only "Jammin'" had been performed a few times and later became a classic Marley tune and a standard of later tours. "Waiting In Vain" and "One Love / People Get Ready" had been performed at least once during the Kaya Tour in 1978, as had "Three Little Birds" at least once during the Uprising Tour in 1980). The tour featured performances of two songs which are not featured on any of previous Island albums: "Trenchtown Rock" (an early pre-Island song) and "Running Away" (a song released on the 1978 album Kaya).

During some shows, an additional song was added to the middle of the setlist (especially during the Rainbow Theatre shows when Marley widely varied the setlists), like "Stir It Up" "Jammin'", "Positive Vibration", "Concrete Jungle", "Crazy Baldhead", "Running Away", "Trenchtown Rock", "Natural Mystic", "So Much Things To Say" and "Guiltiness". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour. In 2020, the final concert was released on Marley's official YouTube channel.^[7]

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Notes
10 May 1977	Paris	France	Pavillon de Paris
11 May 1977	Brussels	Belgium	Forest National
13 May 1977	The Hague	Netherlands	Houtrust Hallen
15 May 1977	Munich	West Germany	Circus Krone
16 May 1977	Heidelberg		Rhein-Neckar-Halle
17 May 1977	Hamburg		Congress Centrum Hamburg
18 May 1977	West Berlin		Eissporthalle_an_der_Jafféstraße
20 May 1977	Stockholm	Sweden	Gröna Lund
22 May 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	Folketeatret
23 May 1977	Gothenburg	Sweden	Scandinavium
May 1977	London	England	Top of the Pops	BBC TV program
1 June 1977			Rainbow Theatre
2 June 1977
3 June 1977
4 June 1977

Cancellations

• 5 June 1977: London, United Kingdom
• 6 June 1977: London, United Kingdom

References

1. "Watch Bob Marley's 1977 'Live at the Rainbow' Concert in Full". Rolling Stone. 12 June 2020.
2. "Bob Marley had a competitive side — and 'the beautiful game' helped fuel it". 17 April 2017.
3. "Qobuz".
4. "Qobuz".
5. "Qobuz".
6. "Qobuz".
7. "Watch A Previously-Unreleased Live Bob Marley Concert From 1977 [Full Pro-Shot Video]". 15 June 2020.