Man of Mystery (live)

86%	MuseWiki ULD has 18/21 performances of this song. This is a list of missing performances.

Live information
Name	Man of Mystery
Tours	Black Holes and Revelations (21)
First performance	26th May 2007
Latest performance	8th March 2008
Pro-shots	None
Audience footage	2007: Fairfax (08/09/2007) Mississauga (08/01/2007) Angouleme (07/20/2007) Verona (07/16/2007) Aix-les-Bains (07/13/2007) Monaco (07/12/2007) Roskilde (07/08/2007) Werchter (06/28/2007) Paris (06/23/2007) London (06/16/2007) Newport (06/09/2007) Nurburg (06/01/2007) Florence (05/30/2007) Landgraaf (05/27/2007) Luxembourg (05/26/2007)
Audio recordings	2008: Dubai (03/08/2008) 2007: Nuremburg (06/02/2007)
# of performances	21
Uno Live Database	86%, missing 3/21 performances

This page contains a list of all known performances of Man of Mystery.

Analysis and Explanation

Man of Mystery is the third highest played cover song, and was played commonly from May to July 2007. When the band recorded the song for the NME Supermassive Selection was roughly around the time the song was played. In its last few performances in July it was played at every other gig. Perhaps it was a song the band had been rehearsing for a while and, when recording it for the NME promo disc, decided to play it live as well. After two performances in August the song was dropped from setlists, with the exception of one performance in March 2008. Interestingly this gig was when the band was rehearsing Uno beforehand. It is possible that the band intended to play Uno, but scrapped it at the last minute and replaced it with another uncommon song, Man of Mystery. This is entirely hypothetical, but this theory may explain its random setlist placement nearly a year after its last performance.

It is entirely possible the band may revisit the song, but there are no indications it may happen in the near future.

Black Holes and Revelations era

2008

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
1	2008-03-08	Dubai Festival City (Dubai Desert Rock Festival)	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Listen here [B]

2007

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
20	2007-08-09	The Patriot Center	Fairfax, VA, USA	Watch here [B]
19	2007-08-01	Arrow Hall	Mississauga, ON, Canada	Watch here [B]
18	2007-07-29	Songdo Dae Woo Motors Field (Pentaport Rock Festival)	Incheon, South Korea	Listen here
17	2007-07-24	L'Asse (Paléo Festival)	Nyon, VD, Switzerland
16	2007-07-20	Valettes Garden (Garden Nef)	Angoulême, France	Watch here [B]
15	2007-07-16	Arena di Verona	Verona, Italy	Watch here [B]
14	2007-07-14	Piazza Grande (Moon and Stars)	Locarno, Switzerland
13	2007-07-13	Aix-les-Bains (Musilac Festival)	Aix-les-Bains, France	Watch here [B]
12	2007-07-12	Stade Louis II	Monaco	Watch here [B]
11	2007-07-08	Roskilde fairgrounds (Roskilde Festival)	Roskilde, Denmark	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
10	2007-07-02	Riga Arena	Riga, Latvia
9	2007-06-28	Rock Werchter	Werchter, Belgium	Watch here [B]
8	2007-06-23	Parc des Princes	Paris, France	Watch here [B]
7	2007-06-16	Wembley Stadium	London, UK	Watch here [B]
6	2007-06-09	Seaclose Park (Isle of Wight Festival)	Newport, UK	Watch here [B]
5	2007-06-02	Zeppelinfeld (Rock im Park)	Nuremberg, BY, Germany	Listen here [B]
4	2007-06-01	Nürburgring (Rock am Ring)	Nürburg, RP, Germany	Watch here [B]
3	2007-05-30	Piazzale Michelangelo	Florence, Italy	Watch here [B]
2	2007-05-27	Megaland (Pinkpop Festival)	Landgraaf, LI, Netherlands	Watch here [B]
1	2007-05-26	Rockhal	Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg	Watch here [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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