The Groove (live)

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75% MuseWiki ULD has 18/24 performances of this song.
This is a list of missing performances.
Live information
Name The Groove
Tours Drones (5)
Black Holes and Revelations (6)
Absolution (13)
First performance 18th September 2003
Latest performance 2nd July 2016
Pro-shots
2015:
Carhaix (07/16/2015)
2004:
Cincinatti (04/24/2004)
2003:
London (09/22/2003)
London (09/18/2003)
Audience footage
2016:
Montreux (07/02/2016)
2015:
New York (05/08/2015)
Brighton (03/23/2015)
Manchester (03/22/2015)
2008:
Rio (07/30/2008)
Buenos Aires (07/23/2008)
Bogota (07/20/2008)
Monterrey (07/16/2008)
2007:
Adelaide (11/14/2007)
2004:
Chelmsford (08/21/2004)
2003:
Lyon (11/10/2003)
Audio recordings 2004:
Perth (09/05/2004)
St. Cloud (08/24/2004)
# of performances 24
Uno Live Database 75% (missing 6/24 performances)




This page contains a list of all known performances of The Groove.

Analysis and Explanation

The Groove was performed very rarely during the Absolution tour, with the only time period where The Groove was performed very often was at V Festival 2004 until the beginning of the Australian tour. The Groove actually reappeared during a few small performances on the Black Holes and Revelations tour as an instrumental outro to Hysteria and Plug In Baby. These six performances are shorter than normal, but feature generally the same song with the exception of the lack of vocals.

Surprisingly the song reappeared for the Psycho UK Tour/Psycho US Tour, even making one further performance at the 2015 Vieilles Charrues Festival. The band appear to enjoy playing the song, especially given its return to setlists outside of the Psycho UK Tour. It is likely that the song will return at some point later on in the Drones tour, perhaps during the Asian leg of the tour at a Japanese gig, where rare songs are performed more often. Montreux Jazz Festival brought The Groove back for its fifth performance of the tour, where Matt ended the performance by stating "that's a deep cut!". Shortly after this performance Matt responded to a tweet sent to him by a fan professing their love for the song, to which Matt responded that he wasn't aware the song was so popular.

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Drones era

2016

# Date Venue Location Link
1 2016-07-02 Auditorium Stravinski (Montreux Jazz Festival) Montreux, Switzerland Watch here [B]

2015

# Date Venue Location Link Notes
4 2015-07-16 Vieilles Charrues Festival Carhaix, France Watch here [B] Blue Orchid riff intro
3 2015-05-08 Webster Hall New York City, NY, USA Watch here [B]
2 2015-03-23 Brighton Dome Brighton, England Watch here [B]
1 2015-03-22 Manchester Academy Manchester, England Watch here [B]

Black Holes and Revelations era

2008

# Date Venue Location Link
4 2008-07-30 Vivo Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Watch here [B]
3 2008-07-23 Teatro Gran Rex Buenos Aires, Argentina Watch here [B]
2 2008-07-20 Palacio de los Deportes Bogotá, Colombia Watch here [B]
1 2008-07-16 Arena Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico Watch here [B]

2007

# Date Venue Location Link
2 2007-11-15 Rod Laver Arena Melbourne, VI, Australia Listen here
1 2007-11-14 Adelaide Entertainment Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia Watch here [B]

Absolution era

2004

# Date Venue Location Link
6 2004-09-05 Metropolis City Concert Club Perth, WA, Australia Listen here [B]
5 2004-08-28 Domaine National de Saint-Cloud (Rock en Seine) Saint-Cloud, France Listen here [B]
4 2004-08-26 Festivalgelände Wiesen (Two Days a Week) Wiesen, Austria
3 2004-08-22 Weston Park (V Festival) Weston under Lizard, UK
2 2004-08-21 Hylands Park (V Festival) Chelmsford, UK Watch here [B]
1 2004-04-24 Top Cats Cincinnati, OH, USA Watch here [B]

2003

# Date Venue Location Link
7 2003-12-10 Laugardalshöll Reykjavík, Iceland
6 2003-11-10 Halle Tony Garnier Lyon, France Watch here
5 2003-10-21 Columbiahalle Berlin, BE, Germany
4 2003-10-19 Große Freiheit Hamburg, HH, Germany
3 2003-10-12 Nosturi Helsinki, Finland
2 2003-09-22 Carling Academy London, UK Watch here [B]
1 2003-09-18 Maida Vale Studios (BBC Radio 1) London, UK Watch here [B]

See also

This is a table of Absolution-era live performances.

Note: white indicates performed at 75-100% of known setlists.

Gainsboro indicates performed at 50-75% of known setlists.

Silver indicates performed at 25-50% of known setlists.

Dark gray indicates performed at 0-25% of known setlists.

Black indicates no known performance that year.

Aqua indicates a performance in the current tour and year for which the final amount of performances is unknown.

All years with unknown setlists (1997-2004) are indicated with small font.

Last updated: April 15, 2022.

Song Title Release '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '22 '23 #
Intro Absolution 0 40 89 21 20 30 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 22 0 0 0 0 2 269
Apocalypse Please Absolution 18 40 89 21 24 38 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 22 0 0 0 0 2 287
Time Is Running Out Absolution 0 53 131 23 90 101 17 48 94 15 29 91 3 59 81 32 13 61 20 54 1016
Sing for Absolution Absolution 0 41 76 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 137
Stockholm Syndrome Absolution 0 49 129 22 90 101 17 34 86 15 17 52 3 28 22 21 10 57 10 10 773
Falling Away With You Absolution 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Interlude Absolution 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 95 10 16 33 3 54 59 34 9 59 30 57 507
Hysteria Absolution 17 51 133 23 89 97 17 49 95 12 16 60 3 54 59 34 9 59 30 57 964
Blackout Absolution 0 45 36 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 103
Butterflies & Hurricanes Absolution 0 47 126 22 71 89 16 1 7 4 0 6 2 0 5 6 0 0 0 3 405
The Small Print Absolution 20 27 89 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156
Fury Absolution 3 0 11 0 0 7 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 34
Endlessly Absolution 0 41 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48
Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Absolution 0 46 47 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110
Ruled by Secrecy Absolution 0 0 73 11 0 6 0 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100
The Groove Time Is Running Out 0 7 6 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 24
Eternally Missed Hysteria 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5

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