Will of the People Summer Festivals Tour

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The burning "WOTP" logo
The "Masked Hacker" inflatable figure behind the band
Matt playing synth on his "Power Glove"
The "Power Glove" and the light-up jacket



The 2022 tour, where Muse will be playing festivals around Europe throughout the entire summer, with one stop also in the USA, in autumn. The first tour of the Will of the People era, and first tour in three years, since the pandemic in 2020.

Information

Begining on June 4th, 2022, with a performance at Rock am Ring in Germany, and set to end with the gig at Aftershock Festival, in Sacramento, California, this is, as mentioned above, the first major tour, supporting the album, Will of the People. The tour will include Muse's debut performances at Nova Rock and Aftershock festivals, aswel as performances at the Isle of Wight, Eurockéennes and Rock in Rio Lisbon festivals.

Will of the People and Kill or Be Killed made its live debuts on the tour, with Compliance and Won't Stand Down being played before. Nishe was brought back after 11 years, played before Madness, and also played in full, once, so far, for the first time since 2000. Behold, The Glove, known during the Simulation Theory World Tour as "STT Interstitial 2" was played again, but with the entire band, and in full.

On June 3rd, 2022, the entire tour's setlist template was leaked on Twitter.

Production

The show was, in some aspects, similar to the previous tour. Similar to Murph the Robot, the tour featured its counterpart, a large inflatable "masked hacker" figure, nicknamed "Will the Hacker", which was set up on-stage behind the band, and was present throughout most of the show (excluding the fist few songs). It's revealed during Won't Stand Down. The main difference between Will the Hacker and Murph is that the hacker is a lot bigger and bulkier. It's made up of three separate parts: Two shoulders, sitting on each side of the head, which is attached to trussing, rotating left to right slightly. Behind the hacker is a small wall of LED light strips, also attached to top trussing. Lights are also used to illuminate the inflatable figure from different angles.

Also similar to the Simulation Theory Tour is the use of The Power Glove. The difference, however, is, that the glove is now outfitted with a custom synth pad, which Matt uses to play the synth solo of Behold, The Glove and the synth intro of Uprising on. While doing so, Matt is wearing an LED leather jacket, similar to the jacket worn during the previous tour.

The gigs rely on heavy use of pyro, specifically, fire. The show opens with a large burning "WOTP" monogram logo, placed on a stand behind the band, while the band play the song Will of the People. The fire can be re-ignited at any given time, with the ability to lit up each letter separately. Fire machines are used throughout the rest of the show.

With Mercy being dropped from the setlists, Compliance has taken over as the song during which the streamers are released.

Average Setlist

Encore

Notes

  • Map of the Problematique and Stockholm Syndrome share their riffs, being Duality, Calm Like a Bomb and the Unknown one, allthough they shuffle through them gig by gig

Exceptions

Stats

Album # of songs Songs played
Showbiz 0 -
Origin of Symmetry 2 Plug In Baby, Citizen Erased
Absolution 4 Interlude, Hysteria, Time Is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome
Black Holes and Revelations 4 Starlight, Map of the Problematique, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia
The Resistance 1 Uprising
The 2nd Law 2 Madness, Prelude
Drones 2 Drill Sergeant, Psycho
Simulation Theory 2 Pressure, Thought Contagion
Will of the People 4 Will of the People, Compliance, Won't Stand Down, Kill or Be Killed
Other 3 The Gallery, Behold, The Glove, Nishe

Gigs

Date Venue Location
2022-10-09 Discovery Park (Aftershock Festival) Sacramento, CA, USA
2022-09-08 Sacaba Beach (Andalucía Big Festival by Mad Cool) Málaga, Spain
2022-07-10 Chateau d'Aubiry (Les Déferlantes Festival) Céret, France
2022-07-08 Espacio Mad Cool (Mad Cool Festival) Madrid, Spain
2022-07-06 Chateau de Beauregard (Festival Beauregard) Cellettes, France
2022-07-03 Lac de Malsaucy (Les Eurockéennes de Belfort) Malsaucy, France
2022-07-02 Festivalgeländ (OpenAir St. Gallen) St. Gallen, Switzerland
2022-06-29 OAKA (Ejekt Festival) Athens, Greece
2022-06-26 Antiguo Aquapark (Mallorca Live Festival) Calvià, Spain
2022-06-23 Tusindårsskoven (Tinderbox Festival) Odense, Denmark
2022-06-21 Löver Camping (VOLT Festival) Sopron, Hungary
2022-06-19 Seaclose Park (Isle of Wight Festival) Newport, UK
2022-06-18 Bela Vista Park (Rock in Rio) Lisbon, Portugal
2022-06-17 Visarno Arena (Firenze Rocks) Florence, Italy
2022-06-11 Flughafen Tempelhof (Tempelhof Sounds) Berlin, Germany
2022-06-09 Pannonia Fields II (Nova Rock Festival) Nickelsdorf, Austria
2022-06-05 Zeppelinfeld (Rock im Park) Nuremberg, Germany
2022-06-04 Nürburgring (Rock am Ring) Nürburg, Germany

References


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