Tour of Europe 1979 was a concert tour by the British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

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Background

It was his first tour, 6 years after his debut album, Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company's success...

. It was used as promotion for the Incantations

Incantations (album)

Incantations is the fourth record album by Mike Oldfield, released in late 1978 on Virgin Records.The first Oldfield to be divided into more than two movements, it is the second longest work Oldfield has ever released...

album. The tour spawned a record release, Exposed, and later a concert video, Exposed

Exposed (Mike Oldfield video)

Exposed is a live concert video by Mike Oldfield recorded in 1979 at Wembley Conference Centre. The live album of the same name was released in 1979; it also had the same artwork. A DVD version of the concert was released in 2005...

. Initially during the tour the concerts were being recorded without the knowledge of the musicians, so that they could be paid less money; for just a performance and not a recording, the musicians found out, but the recordings went ahead and the album was produced.

Tour dates

Country	Date	City	Venue	Notes
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	31/03/1979	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...	Palacio Municipal de los Deportes	2 shows at 6pm and 10pm
	02/04/1979	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...	Pabellón Deportivo del Real Madrid	2 shows at 7pm and 10:30pm
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	04/04/1979	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	Pavillon Baltard
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	05/04/1979	Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...	Phillipshalle
	07/04/1979	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...	Eissporthalle
Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	9/04/1979	Bruxelles	Forst National
The Netherlands	10/04/1979	Rotterdam	De Doelen
Denmark	12/04/1979	Kobenhavn	Falkoner
Germany	14/04/1979	Bremen	Stadthalle
	15/04/1979	Hamburg	CCH
	17/04/1979	München	Saal des Deutschen Museums
	18/04/1979	Frankfurt	Jahrhunderthalle
Great Britain	21/04/1979	London	Royal Festival Hall	2 Shows
	25/04/1979	London	Wembley Conference Centre	Released on DVD
	26/04/1979	London	Wembley Conference Centre	Released on DVD
	28/04/1979	London	Wembley Arena
	29/04/1979	London	Wembley Arena
	02/05/1979	London	Wembley Arena
	03/05/1979	Birmingham	Odeon
	04/05/1979	Manchester	Apollo
	03/05/1979	Birmingham	National Exhibition Centre