On February 5, 2016, the band performed in Los Angeles at the FEEL THE BERN political fund-raiser in support of 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

[5] "Nobody Weird Like Me" made its return to the set list for the first time since the 2006–07 Stadium Arcadium World Tour.

[6] The band also performed covers of "Cracked Actor" and "Starman" in tribute to their friend David Bowie, who died the previous month.

On April 29, 2016, Chad Smith and Will Ferrell will host the Red Hot Benefit Comedy + Music Show & Quinceanera.

The benefit will featured a performance by the Chili Peppers along with comedy acts selected by Ferrell and Funny or Die.

The band's May 14, 2016 performance at the KROQ Weenie Roast was suddenly cancelled prior to them going on stage due to Kiedis suffering stomach pains.

New songs "Go Robot" (the band was joined by Thundercat on bass), "Sick Love", "The Ticonderoga" all made their live debuts on May 26, 2016, at the album preview show for iHeartRadio which aired on DirectTV on June 17, 2016.

It was unknown at the time whether upcoming shows would be affected as a result,[9] with Kiedis' mother Peggy posting the following morning on Facebook that "Anthony will be OK. No surgery is needed.

[10] It was confirmed that Kiedis was suffering from intestinal flu and was expected to make a full recovery soon, however the band was forced to postpone their iHeartRadio album preview show on May 17, 2016, and has rescheduled it for May 26, 2016.

[12][13] In a May 20, 2016 interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada, his first since being released from the hospital, Kiedis said that his illness was brought on by an "inflammation in my guts" which he said was complicated by a recent stomach virus and existing scar tissue from previous hernia operations which required his stomach being pumped at the hospital due to his food not being able to properly digest.

Lo an behold, I'm on the mend" He went on to say "so it turned out to be a good thing, albeit painful and very sad to have to cancel a show.

And when you just can't take it for another day and you're beat and you're haggard and you're tired and you want to collapse and you come home and you gather some new life experience and start writing a little bit and Flea sits down at the piano and says, 'Hey, I have these chords.

The Getaway World Tour got underway on June 4, 2016, with festival dates in Europe, Asia and North America which will last until August 2016.

A day after its release, "We Turn Red" made its live debut on June 10, 2016, at the Pinkpop festival while "Wet Sand" was performed for the first time in over two years.

Flea, Anthony and Chad also teased George Clinton's "Bullet Proof", a song they haven't performed in 23 years.

At the band's show of October 10, 2016 in Italy, Anthony's 9-year-old son Everly Bear joined his father in singing "Dreams of a Samurai".

"Emit Remmus" was performed for the first time since 2012 while "Catholic School Girls Rule" and "Freaky Styley" were for teased at during the band's show of November 16, 2016 in Denmark.

Due to Kiedis suffering from flu like symptoms, the band was forced to postpone their December 20 and 21 shows in Ireland until September 20 and 21, 2017.

Jack Irons,[24] the band's original drummer and founding member of the band, will serve as opening act on all North American dates while Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Babymetal, IRONTOM and Deerhoof will serve as opening acts at various dates on the leg.

[25][26][27] At the opening show on the North American leg in San Antonio on January 5, 2017, the band performed "Breaking the Girl" for the first time since October 2012.

"The Zephyr Song" was performed for the first time in the United States since July 2004 during the band's show of January 8, 2017 in Dallas, Texas.

At the band's show in Pittsburgh on May 11, 2017, they performed a cover of the Looking Glass song "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)".

Following the band's performance of May 14, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio, Chad Smith sang the University of Michigan fight song "The Victors".

He's had a wild, great journey and a helluva colourful badass life but he's sick and he's gonna to die now..

Flea also during the show asked for a moment of silence for Hillel Slovak, the band's founding guitarist who died 29 years earlier.

Following the moment of silence, Jack Irons joined his former band on stage to perform Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" as a tribute to Slovak.

[35] Due to Anthony Kiedis suffering from the flu, the band's shows on December 20 and 21, 2016 in Dublin at 3Arena were forced to be postponed and were rescheduled for September 20 and 21, 2017 at the same venue.

Cross claimed that the band gave a “K thanks bye” exit off the stage and wrote on the reaction of fellow concert attendees.

Cross criticized the band for not playing longer than an hour and a half, stating, "Why can’t you be more like your younger brother Dave Grohl?

Who can tear the roof off the Molson Amphitheater for three plus hours, pay the fine for going over his set time, all whilst sitting in a chair with a broken leg.