Nürburg Nürburgring 2022 (gig)

Official poster

Line-up poster

Dom wearing the mask during Will of the People

Chris and Dan^[1]

The setlist

Muse show
Venue	Nürburgring^[2] (Rock am Ring^[3]—Utopia Stage)
Date	4th June 2022^[4]
Location	Nürburg, RP^[5]
Country	Germany
Songs	22
Support	Placebo et al.
Start (GMT+1)	22:30^[6]
Capacity	70,000
Price (EUR)	38,50 - 713^[7]
Sold out?	Yes^[8]

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First show of the Will of the People Festivals Tour.

Information

Announced on May 26th, 2022, Muse headlined the 2022 Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals together with Volbeat and Green Day. This gig took place on June 4th, 2022 and was the seventh time that Muse appeared on Rock am Ring festival, and third headlining it (last was in 2018). According to Matt, Muse were supposed to play at Rock am Ring in 2021, but they couldn't due to the pandemic.

Rob Damiani, lead singer of Don Broco, was present at the show.

The Show

The Setlist

Will of the People and Kill or Be Killed were given their live debuts.
Behold, The Glove (previously known as STT Interstitial 2) was played in full for the first time. It was played as a full band, rather than from tape, and Matt also played a synth solo on the Power Glove (previously used as a prop during the Simulation Theory World Tour in 2019) which has now been modified to include a synth pad. He also used the glove to play the intro of Uprising.
Nishe was also played for the first time in 11 years (and the first time on guitar since 2008).
Three short video interstitials were played during the show; "Chant" (played before Will of the People at the start of the show), "Parkour" (played before Time is Running Out), and "Driving" (played before Plug in Baby).
The setlist was leaked on Twitter the day before the show, with it also listing all songs that were planned to be rotated during the tour.^[9]

Staging and production

The gig marked the debut of the Will of the People era staging and production.
The first major part of the staging is the burning "WOTP" logo sign that is present at the back of the stage during the opening song Will of the People. The flames are controlled by gas controllers, and during the solo the four individual letters were lit up sequentially.
The band members (including Dan) also wore the "masked hacker" masks and hoodies during the song, very much like the figures seen throughout Will of the People's album videos and artworks.
Following the end of Will of the People, the band members removed their masks and began playing Interlude. Then once Hysteria began, the back of the stage was covered with a curtain (not unlike during the Absolution Tour), concealing the now extinguished "WOTP" sign.
The stage remained covered for the next few songs until Won't Stand Down. When the heavy breakdown of the song began, the curtain was dropped to reveal the second major part of the staging; a large inflatable "masked hacker" figure called "Will the Hacker". Will is similar to Murph the Robot from the Simulation Theory World Tour. However, it's much bigger and is made up of three separate parts; Two arms/shoulders, and a head, attached to trussing, rotating left and right slightly.
Also similar to Simulation Theory World Tour was Matt's LED jacket and the aforementioned Power Glove. He wore the jacket during Behold, The Glove, Uprising, and Starlight, and used the Power Glove during the former two songs.
Fire machines were used throughout the show. Streamers were released during Compliance, and Hullaballoons were released during Starlight.

Set times

14:00 - Kodaline
15:05 - Gang Of Youths
16:10 - Sportfreunde Stiller
17:25 - Rin
18:55 - Alligatoah
20:40 - Placebo
22:30 - Muse

Prices

Category	Type	Price
Festival tickets	Weekend festival ticket	209€
Camping tickets	General camping ticket	50€
	Green camping ticket	50€
	Rock'N'Roll camping ticket	99€
	Caravan camping ticket	89€
	Experience camping ticket	713€
Parking & Shuttle tickets
	Caravan parking - B-Zone ticket	65€
	Caravan parking - C-Zone ticket	38.50€
	Caravan parking - D-Zone ticket	65€
	3-day Parking & Shuttle ticket	60€

Speech

After Psycho	Bellamy	"Good evening Rock am Ring!"
After Won't Stand Down		"Thank you!"
After Madness		"Thank you guys, you guys are amazing!"
Before Citizen Erased		"Woohoo. We were supposed to play last year, was that right? Is that how it happened? Last yea...Yeah, yeah. Yeah, last year we were supposed to play here last year and it was gonna be um...Like, the 20th anniversary of our album Origin of Symmetry, and uh, so we bought this song back from the dead."
After Thought Contagion		"Cheers!"
After Starlight		"Dankeschön Germany!"
Before Kill or Be Killed		"Thank you, thank you, you guys are so amazing! So happy to be back with such a great crowd as you guys! We're gonna do something very unusual now, we're gonna play a new song that hasn't been released yet, so, here we go."
After Knights of Cydonia		"Thank you Rock am Ring! Thank you Germany, we love you so much!"