Exo-Politics (live)

36%	MuseWiki ULD has 10/28 performances of this song. This is a list of missing performances.

Live information
Name	Exo-Politics
Tours	Black Holes and Revelations (7) Absolution (21)
First performance	8th April 2005
Latest performance	22nd November 2006
Pro-shots	None
Audience footage	2006: London (11/22/2006) Nottingham (11/17/2006) Aberdeen (11/06/2006) Belfast (11/04/2006) Nashville (09/13/2006) Columbus (09/11/2006) 2005: Boca Raton (04/08/2005)
Audio recordings	2005: St. Louis (04/26/2005) East Lansing (04/23/2005) Buffalo (04/21/2005)
# of performances	28
Uno Live Database	36%, missing 18/28 performances

This page contains a list of all known performances of Exo-Politics.

Analysis and Explanation

Exo-Politics was played at nearly every US Campus Invasion Tour gig, with the sole exception being the April 20th gig, leading to a high number of early performances. Early versions are incredibly hard to find, but many fans believe them to be superior than the finished version (something early Assassin performances also have in common). For whatever reason, the finished version was rarely played at all, making three appearances in September 2006 and four in November. Interestingly the last two performances of the song were in a run through of the entire album, and not the band's unique selection of the song. The band may have not been satisfied with the finished product, and for that reason avoided playing it. It was the only album track not to make an appearance in 2007. The changing beliefs of Matt Bellamy may also prevent this song from returning to setlists again, with its themes of hidden alien invasion and alien cooperation with governments being beliefs Matt no longer follows. Matt famously laughed at these themes in an interview at one time. Interestingly, the song was never played outside of USA and the UK.

In a poll of 500 fans conducted in November 2015, out of a total thirty songs that had not been played since The Resistance era, fans voted Exo-Politics as the twelfth most requested song to make a return to setlists.

Black Holes and Revelations era

2006

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
7	2006-11-22	Wembley Arena	London, UK	Watch here [B]
6	2006-11-17	National Ice Centre Arena	Nottingham, UK	Watch here [B]
5	2006-11-06	Press and Journal Arena	Aberdeen, UK	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
4	2006-11-04	Odyssey Arena	Belfast, UK	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
3	2006-09-13	War Memorial Auditorium	Nashville, TN, USA	Watch here [B]
2	2006-09-11	Lifestyles Communities Pavilion	Columbus, OH, USA	Watch here [B]
1	2006-09-10	Agora Theatre	Cleveland, OH, USA

Absolution era

2005

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
21	2005-05-07	Austin Music Hall	Austin, TX, USA
20	2005-05-05	Cullum Auditorium	Houston, TX, USA
19	2005-05-04	Gypsy Tea Room and Ballroom	Dallas, TX, USA
18	2005-05-03	Sunset Station	San Antonio, TX, USA
17	2005-05-01	Uptown Theater	Kansas City, MO, USA
16	2005-04-30	Jillian's	Louisville, KY, USA
15	2005-04-28	Manchester Field	Kent, OH, USA
14	2005-04-27	PromoWest Pavilion	Columbus, OH, USA	FIND AUDIO
13	2005-04-26	Pageant Concert Nightclub	St. Louis, MO, USA	Listen here
12	2005-04-24	Emens Auditorium	Muncie, IN, USA
11	2005-04-23	Breslin Student Events Center	East Lansing, MI, USA	Listen here
10	2005-04-21	Sphere Entertainment Complex	Buffalo, NY, USA	Listen here
9	2005-04-19	Jorgensen Auditorium	Mansfield, CT, USA
8	2005-04-17	Peterson Fieldhouse	Providence, RI, USA
7	2005-04-16	Cole Field House	College Park, MD, USA
6	2005-04-15	Liacouras Center	Philadelphia, PA, USA
5	2005-04-13	Disco Rodeo	Raleigh, NC, USA
4	2005-04-12	Dale F. Halton Arena	Charlotte, NC, USA
3	2005-04-10	Tabernacle	Atlanta, GA, USA
2	2005-04-09	Plush	Jacksonville, FL, USA
1	2005-04-08	Auditorium Field	Boca Raton, FL, USA	Watch here

See also

This is a table of Black Holes and Revelations-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	'04	'05	'06	'07	'08	'09	'10	'11	'12	'13	'14	'15	'16	'17	'18	'19	'22	'23	#
Take a Bow	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	79	81	14	0	13	3	0	0	0	0	35	12	7	52	0	0	296
Starlight	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	96	101	17	50	95	17	31	93	3	59	82	33	13	61	32	57	840
Supermassive Black Hole	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	96	98	17	48	95	13	29	91	0	62	82	33	14	61	33	57	829
Map of the Problematique	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	95	97	17	36	62	8	11	31	0	5	43	6	1	0	10	11	433
Soldier's Poem	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	41	51	3	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
Invincible	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	71	85	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	170
Assassin	Black Holes & Revelations	0	20	38	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	2	1	57	11	1	154
Exo-Politics	Black Holes & Revelations	0	21	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	28
City of Delusion	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	30	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51
Hoodoo	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	35	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
Knights of Cydonia	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	97	101	17	44	95	17	28	90	3	62	82	34	13	60	33	56	832
Glorious	Black Holes & Revelations	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	11
Crying Shame	Supermassive Black Hole	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Easily	Starlight	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Man of Mystery	The Supermassive Selection	0	0	0	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21

References

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