Simulation Theory Promo Shows

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A short tour Muse did right at the end of 2018 and begining of 2019, in support of their, then newly released album, Simulation Theory.

The tour consisted of TV show appearances, a few small gigs, few festivals in United States, and two bigger performances, one in Royal Albert Hall in London, and another (biggest) one, at San Mames stadium, in Bilbao, Spain.

Information

As a promotional tour for the Simulation Theory, there were several debuts made during the tour. These are: Dig Down (Acoustic Gospel Version), The Dark Side, Something Human, Pressure, Algorithm & Break It to Me. A cover of Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf also made its live debut (being the only tour which the cover was played on), as did the Smashing Pumpkins jam, and the Metal medley.

As of the Brooklyn performance, Matt was equipped with new LED light-up shades and a special LED jacket, and Morgan's got a cap.

Stage design

This being a promo tour, a strict stage design didn't appear on each gig. There were, however, a number of gigs, which used the same lighting, which included a mixture of moving beam lights and LED strips, placed on trussing behind the band. These appeared at the Reeperbahn and Royal Albert Hall gigs, aswel as the iHeartRadio Theater, The Aragon, the Barclays Center, The Forum and the Hollywood Palladium gigs.

Average Setlist

• Algorithm
• [Drill Sergeant] + Psycho
• Break it to Me
• Plug in Baby (extended outro)
• Pressure
• The Dark Side
• Unsustainable
• Dig Down / Plug in Baby
• Madness
• Uprising (extended)
• Time is Running Out
• Supermassive Black Hole
• Thought Contagion / Metal medley

• Starlight
• Man With a Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia

Exceptions

• Songs like Something Human, or covers like Hungry Like the Wolf were only played at a certain promotional gig, with no further appearences.

• The Handler (in its full version) and Hysteria (with Interlude) were only played at Hamburg, the first gig of this Promo Show tour.

• Also songs like Showbiz, Dead Star (shortened) were played at the Royal Albert Hall gig, and the Smashing Pumpkins Jam at Chicago.

• Mercy was played twice, it was the main set closer at the Hamburg gig and the Bilbao gig, then it was dropped from the setlists.

• Before the release of Simulation Theory, Dig Down was still played (until the Bilbao gig), then it was dropped. Algorithm and Break It to Me made they live debut at the Royal Albert Hall gig. The same gig where the Metal medley was played for the first time.

Stats

Album	# of songs	Songs played
Showbiz	1	Showbiz
Origin of Symmetry	2	Plug in Baby, New Born
Absolution	4	Time is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome, Interlude, Hysteria
Black Holes and Revelations	3	Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia
The Resistance	1	Uprising
The 2nd Law	3	Madness, Isolated System, Unsustainable
Drones	5	[Drill Sergeant], Psycho, Mercy, The Handler, Reapers
Simulation Theory	7	Dig Down, Thought Contagion, The Dark Side, Pressure, Something Human, Algorithm, Break it to Me
Other	3	Dead Star, Hungry Like the Wolf, Smashing Pumpkins Jam

Gigs

Date	Venue	Location
2019-02-09	Hollywood Palladium (Citi Sound Vault)	Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019-01-19	The Forum (iHeartRadio ALTer EGO)	Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019-01-18	Warner Bros Studio Stage 1 (The Ellen DeGeneres Show)	Burbank, CA, USA
2019-01-09	AIR Studios (Spotify Singles)	London, England
2018-12-14	Studios Rive Gauche (Quotidien avec Yann Barthès)	Paris, France
2018-12-13	Mediolanum Forum di Assago (X Factor Italia Finale)	Assago, Italy
2018-12-09	The Aragon (WKQX's The Nights We Stole Christmas)	Chicago, IL, USA
2018-12-06	Brooklyn Barclays Center (ALT 92.3’s Not So Silent Night)	New York, NY, USA
2018-12-03	Royal Albert Hall	London, UK
2018-11-20	AIR Studios (Sukkiri TV)	London, UK
2018-11-14	iHeartRadio Theater (iHeartRadio Album Release Party)	New York, NY, USA
2018-11-13	Rockefeller Center (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon)	New York, NY, USA
2018-11-10	Palais des Festivals (NRJ Music Awards)	Cannes, France
2018-11-03	Estadio San Mamés (MTV World Stage)	Bilbao, Spain
2018-10-02	The Maidstone Studios (Later... with Jools Holland)	Maidstone, UK
2018-09-24	Air Productions Studios (Taratata)	Paris, France
2018-09-21	Docks Club (Reeperbahn Festival)	Hamburg, Germany

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