City of Delusion (live)

Live information
Name	City of Delusion
Tours	Black Holes and Revelations (51)
First performance	18th July 2006
Latest performance	18th July 2008
Pro-shots	2006: Birmingham (11/15/2006)
Audience footage	2007: Seattle (09/09/2007) Boston (08/11/2007) Fairfax (08/09/2007) New York (08/06/2007) Incheon City (07/29/2007) Paris (06/23/2007) London (06/16/2007) Newport (06/09/2007) Mexico City (04/12/2007) Los Angeles (04/10/2007) San Fran. (04/09/2007) 2006: Antwerp (12/19/2006) Lille (12/18/2006) Nantes (12/17/2006) Paris (12/15/2006) Paris (12/14/2006) Lyon (12/11/2006) Munich (12/09/2006) Milan (12/04/2006) Bologna (12/02/2006) Den Bosch (11/28/2006) London (11/23/2006) London (11/22/2006) Sheffield (11/18/2006) Nottingham (11/17/2006) Manchester (11/11/2006) Badalona (10/28/2006) Madrid (10/27/2006) Lisbon (10/26/2006) Columbus (09/11/2006) Chicago (07/27/2006) San Diego (07/21/2006) Los Angeles (07/19/2006) San Fran. (07/18/2006)
Audio recordings	2007: Osaka (03/15/2007) Tokyo (03/12/2007) Tokyo (03/11/2007) 2006: Denver (07/24/2006)
# of performances	51
Uno Live Database	#% (missing 10/51 performances)

This page contains a list of all known performances of City of Delusion.

Analysis and Explanation

City of Delusion was performed sporadically in 2006 with no clear pattern to its performances. This continued in 2007, although with fewer performances. Alongside several other album tracks, City of Delusion made only several appearances and was not played outside of the Black Holes and Revelations Tour. The song was not played between July and October 2006, with the exception being the September 11th gig. It was performed just once in 2008, on the same date the song made its debut in 2006. For whatever reason the band did not play it particularly often, leading to very few pro-shots of this song existing (a similar fate occurred with Exo-Politics, Hoodoo and Assassin). The vocal strain felt by Matt may also be a deterrent from the song reappearing, as well as the complicated instruments (including a solo by Dan the Trumpet Man, who has not been used in many years). It is unlikely that without a replacement for Dan, City of Delusion will not return to setlists.

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 City of Delusion as the eighth most requested song to make a return to setlists.

Black Holes and Revelations era

2008

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
1	2008-07-18	Auditorio Telmex	Guadalajara, Mexico	Watch here

2007

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
20	2007-09-21	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre	Irvine, CA, USA	Watch here
19	2007-09-09	KeyArena	Seattle, WA, USA	Watch here
18	2007-08-11	Agganis Arena	Boston, MA, USA	Watch here (Incomplete)
17	2007-08-10	Festival Pier	Philadelphia, PA, USA
16	2007-08-09	The Patriot Center	Fairfax, VA, USA	Watch here
15	2007-08-06	Madison Square Garden	New York City, NY, USA	Watch here
14	2007-07-29	Songdo Dae Woo Motors Field (Pentaport Rock Festival)	Incheon, South Korea	Watch here
13	2007-06-23	Parc des Princes	Paris, France	Watch here
12	2007-06-16	Wembley Stadium	London, UK	Watch here
11	2007-06-09	Seaclose Park (Isle of Wight Festival)	Newport, UK	Watch here (Incomplete)
10	2007-04-12	Palacio de los Deportes	Mexico City, DF, Mexico	Watch here
9	2007-04-10	The Forum	Inglewood, CA, USA	Watch here
8	2007-04-09	Bill Graham Civic Auditorium	San Francisco, CA, USA	Watch here
7	2007-03-18	Sendai Zepp	Sendai, Japan
6	2007-03-16	Fukuoka Zepp	Fukuoka, Japan
5	2007-03-15	Osaka Zepp	Osaka, Japan	Listen here
4	2007-03-12	International Forum	Tokyo, Japan	Listen here
3	2007-03-11	Studio Coast	Tokyo, Japan	Listen here
2	2007-01-31	Festival Hall	Melbourne, VI, Australia
1	2007-01-24	Hordern Pavilion	Sydney, NS, Australia

2006

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
30	2006-12-19	Sportpaleis Antwerp	Antwerp, Belgium	Watch here [B] (Incomplete)
29	2006-12-18	Zénith	Lille, France	Watch here [B]
28	2006-12-17	Zénith	Nantes, France	Watch here [B]
27	2006-12-15	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Paris, France	Watch here [B]
26	2006-12-14	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Paris, France	Watch here [B]
25	2006-12-11	Halle Tony Garnier	Lyon, France	Watch here [B]
24	2006-12-09	Zenith	Munich, Germany	Watch here [B] (Incomplete)
23	2006-12-06	Eishalle Deutweg	Winterthur, Switzerland
22	2006-12-04	DatchForum	Milan, Italy	Watch here [B]
21	2006-12-02	PalaMalaguti	Bologna, Italy	Watch here [B]
20	2006-11-28	Brabanthallen	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Watch here [B]
19	2006-11-26	Alsterdorfer Sporthalle	Hamburg, Germany
18	2006-11-23	Wembley Arena	London, UK	Watch here [B]
17	2006-11-22	Wembley Arena	London, UK	Watch here [B]
16	2006-11-18	Hallam FM Arena	Sheffield, UK	Watch here [B]
15	2006-11-17	National Ice Centre Arena	Nottingham, UK	Watch here [B]
14	2006-11-15	National Exhibition Centre	Birmingham, UK	Watch here [B]
13	2006-11-11	Evening News Arena	Manchester, UK	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
12	2006-10-28	Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona	Badalona, Spain	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
11	2006-10-27	Palacio Deportes	Madrid, Spain	Watch here [B]
10	2006-10-26	Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno	Lisbon, Portugal	Watch here
9	2006-09-11	Lifestyles Communities Pavilion	Columbus, OH, USA	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
8	2006-07-31	Jacques Cartier Pier	Montreal, QC, Canada
7	2006-07-27	Aragon Ballroom	Chicago, USA	Watch here [B]
6	2006-07-26	State Theater	Minneapolis, USA
5	2006-07-24	Fillmore Auditorium	Denver, CO, USA	Listen here [B]
4	2006-07-22	Celebrity Theatre	Phoenix, AZ, USA
3	2006-07-21	Soma	San Diego, USA	Watch here [B]
2	2006-07-19	Greek Theatre	Los Angeles, CA, USA	Watch here [B]
1	2006-07-18	The Concourse	San Francisco, CA, USA	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]

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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