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== Information == | == Information == | ||
The first gigs of the tour were announced on August 19th, 2022. Four gigs were announced in total, all in the UK | The first gigs of the tour were announced on August 19th, 2022. Four gigs were announced in total, all in the UK and all outdoor stadium gigs. As expected, more tour dates were announced throughout the following months, leading up to the tour itself. Bellamy mentioned, in an interview with Zane Lowe in August of 2022, that the tour is planned to take place between January and July of 2023, starting in Mexico, continuing in the U.S. and Canada, and finishing in Europe.<ref>https://youtu.be/AMvtyphl9rA?t=2297</ref> | ||
=== Mexico === | |||
Mexican dates were announced on October 7th, 2022. The tour included stops at [[Monterrey Estadio Banorte 2023 (gig) | Monterrey's Estadio Banorte]], [[Guadalajara Arena VFG 2023 (gig) | Guadalajara's Arena VFG]] and Mexico City's Foro Sol, spreading over two dates, on both [[Mexico City Foro Sol 2023 - 22nd (gig) | 22nd]] and [[Mexico City Foro Sol 2023 - 23rd (gig) | 23rd]] of January. The additional date in Mexico City, on 23rd, was announced on October 27th, 2022. | |||
Mexican | The short Mexican leg took place before the U.S. legs. | ||
=== United States & Canada === | |||
Taking place after the short Mexican leg, U.S. and Canada legs exclusively featured indoor shows, with the only exception being the gig at [[Atlanta_Central_Park_2023_(gig)|Shaky Knees festival]] in Atlanta. Most tour dates were announced on September 29th, 2022. Two additional gigs in [[Montréal Centre Bell 2023 - 15th (gig)|Montreal]] and [[Quebec City Centre Vidéotron 2023 - 12th (gig)|Quebec]] were announced on October 6th, while additional gigs in [[St. Louis Chaifetz Arena 2023 (gig)|St. Louis]] and [[Oakland Oakland Arena 2023 (gig)|Oakland]] were announced on October 17th. | |||
The tour featured two legs and one "lone" show. The first leg began at [[Chicago United Center 2023 (gig)|Chicago's United Center]] on February 25th, and ended at [[Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 2023 (gig)|Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center]] on March 19th. The second leg started with the show at [[Phoenix Desert Diamond Arena 2023 (gig)|Phoenix's Desert Diamond Arena]] on April 2nd, ending with a gig at [[Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena|Salt Lake City's Vivint Smart Home Arena]]. The final show in the U.S. took place on May 6th, at the afforementioned Shaky Knees festival. | |||
=== Europe === | |||
As mentioned above, the first gigs of the tour that were announced were the UK gigs. These will take place in [[Plymouth Home Park 2023 (gig)|Plymouth's Home Park]] on May 27th, [[Huddersfield John Smith's Stadium 2023 (gig)|Huddersfield's John Smith's Stadium]] on June 20th, [[Glasgow Bellahouston Park 2023 (gig)|Glasgow's Bellahouston Park]] on June 23rd and [[Milton Keynes The National Bowl 2023 (gig)|Milton Keynes's National Bowl]] on June 25th. The rest of the tour was announced afterwards. Additional European dates have been announced on January 20th, 2023, including the first show of the tour in Spain, in [[Santander Campos de Sport de El Sardinero 2023 (gig)|Santander's El Sardinero]] on July 4th, and a gig at [[Nancy Zénith de Nancy 2023 (gig)|Nancy's Zénith amphitheatre]] on July 6th, where they'll be playing a headlining show, as part of the Nancy Open Air festival. | |||
The rest of the European dates were announced soon afterwards. The European leg will feature Muse's first shows in the cities of [[Wiener Neustadt Stadion Wiener Neustadt 2023 (gig)|Wiener Neustadt, Austria]] and [[Santander Campos de Sport de El Sardinero 2023 (gig)|Santander, Spain]]. Additionally, the show at Milton Keynes's National Bowl is going to be Muse's first live show at the site. The last time Muse were at Milton Keynes was during the rehearsals for [[The Resistance Tour|The Resistance stadium tour]], in 2010. Additionally, Muse are set to go back to [[The Hague Malieveld 2023 (gig)|The Hague, Netherlands]] after almost 23 years, and [[Lyon Groupama Stadium 2023 (gig)|Lyon, France]] after about a decade. | |||
The tour will feature | The European tour will feature all outdoor productions, and will include both stadium and festival shows. | ||
== Travel packages == | ==== Travel packages ==== | ||
Three travel packages are available to buy for three dates off of the European leg of the tour; Cologne (June 9th), Paris (July 8th) and Milan (July 22nd). Each travel package includes, together with two tickets, a two-night stay at a hotel (king or twin bed rooms options are available). Hotels which are included are Cologne's Pullman, Paris's Marriott Ambassador and Milan's Marriott. An optional third night add-on is also included in each package, for additional cost. Additionally, two exclusive posters, commemorating Muse's performance at each venue in the city (RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Stade de France in Paris and San Siro in Milan) are included in each travel package, as are on-site hosts, and, for the Cologne gig, a roundtrip fare on the metro to the stadium. | Three travel packages are available to buy for three dates off of the European leg of the tour; Cologne (June 9th), Paris (July 8th) and Milan (July 22nd). Each travel package includes, together with two tickets, a two-night stay at a hotel (king or twin bed rooms options are available). Hotels which are included are Cologne's Pullman, Paris's Marriott Ambassador and Milan's Marriott. An optional third night add-on is also included in each package, for additional cost. Additionally, two exclusive posters, commemorating Muse's performance at each venue in the city (RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Stade de France in Paris and San Siro in Milan) are included in each travel package, as are on-site hosts, and, for the Cologne gig, a roundtrip fare on the metro to the stadium. | ||
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More on the travel packages can be seen [https://www.musetravelpackages.com/ here]. | More on the travel packages can be seen [https://www.musetravelpackages.com/ here]. | ||
== | === Asia === | ||
After being teased on February 16th by the band on social media, the band announced the only Asian gig of the tour in [[Kuala Lumpur Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort 2023 (gig)|Kuala Lumpur]] in Malaysia, on February 22nd. The open-air gig will take place at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641</ref> It will be the band's first time in the country since 2007. | |||
The gig will take place at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641</ref> It will be the band's first time in the country since 2007. | |||
== Supporting acts == | == Supporting acts == | ||
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== Average Setlist == | == Average Setlist == | ||
During the January leg in Mexico, the setlist remained relatively unchaged from the shows off of the 2022 festivals tour. This changed with leg 1 in the U.S., starting in [[Chicago United Center 2023 (gig)|Chicago]], in February, when the show was updated, in turn bringing in a new setlist format. This first indoor leg in the U.S. brought in live premieres of [[Verona (song)|Verona]] and [[The Dark Side (song)|The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version) (Instrumental)]]. STT Interstitials 1 and 3 returned as [[Simulation Theory Theme (Matthew Bellamy song)|Simulation Theory Theme]], which was played from tape, mashed up with [[JFK (song)|[JFK]]], acting as an intro to Kill or Be Killed. Additionally, [[Kill or Be Killed (song)|Kill or Be Killed]]'s Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation version was played from tape, as an interstitial, before Compliance. Also returning after several years were [[Resistance (song)|Resistance]], [[Undisclosed Desires (song)|Undisclosed Desires]] and the shortened version of [[Isolated System (song)|Isolated System]]. [[Assassin (song)|Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses)]] was also played, making this the second big headlining tour to feature Assassin, played in full since the [[Black Holes And Revelations Tour]], with it previously being only played during [[The Drones World Tour 2015/16]]. | |||
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* A few gigs into the U.S. leg, [[Undisclosed Desires (song)|Undisclosed Desires]] was put into rotation with [[Resistance (song)|Resistance]]. | * A few gigs into the U.S. leg, [[Undisclosed Desires (song)|Undisclosed Desires]] was put into rotation with [[Resistance (song)|Resistance]]. | ||
* Starting with the Canadian gigs, [[Liberation (song)|Liberation]] was added into rotation with [[Verona (song)|Verona]]. | * Starting with the Canadian gigs, [[Liberation (song)|Liberation]] was added into rotation with [[Verona (song)|Verona]]. | ||
* The Shaky Knees Festival gig featured a shorter setlist with a few features off of the indoor tour; [[Thought Contagion (song)|Thought Contagion]] was played earlier in the set, [[Isolated System (song)|Isolated System]] was played before [[Supermassive Black Hole (song)|Supermassive Black Hole]] and [[The Dark Side (song)|The Dark Side (Alternate Reality)]]'s instrumental version was ditched from the set. | |||
=== Stats === | === Stats === | ||
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The Will of the People World Tour is the current headlining tour, set to take place in until the summer of this year.
Information
The first gigs of the tour were announced on August 19th, 2022. Four gigs were announced in total, all in the UK and all outdoor stadium gigs. As expected, more tour dates were announced throughout the following months, leading up to the tour itself. Bellamy mentioned, in an interview with Zane Lowe in August of 2022, that the tour is planned to take place between January and July of 2023, starting in Mexico, continuing in the U.S. and Canada, and finishing in Europe.[1]
Mexico
Mexican dates were announced on October 7th, 2022. The tour included stops at Monterrey's Estadio Banorte, Guadalajara's Arena VFG and Mexico City's Foro Sol, spreading over two dates, on both 22nd and 23rd of January. The additional date in Mexico City, on 23rd, was announced on October 27th, 2022.
The short Mexican leg took place before the U.S. legs.
United States & Canada
Taking place after the short Mexican leg, U.S. and Canada legs exclusively featured indoor shows, with the only exception being the gig at Shaky Knees festival in Atlanta. Most tour dates were announced on September 29th, 2022. Two additional gigs in Montreal and Quebec were announced on October 6th, while additional gigs in St. Louis and Oakland were announced on October 17th.
The tour featured two legs and one "lone" show. The first leg began at Chicago's United Center on February 25th, and ended at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center on March 19th. The second leg started with the show at Phoenix's Desert Diamond Arena on April 2nd, ending with a gig at Salt Lake City's Vivint Smart Home Arena. The final show in the U.S. took place on May 6th, at the afforementioned Shaky Knees festival.
Europe
As mentioned above, the first gigs of the tour that were announced were the UK gigs. These will take place in Plymouth's Home Park on May 27th, Huddersfield's John Smith's Stadium on June 20th, Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on June 23rd and Milton Keynes's National Bowl on June 25th. The rest of the tour was announced afterwards. Additional European dates have been announced on January 20th, 2023, including the first show of the tour in Spain, in Santander's El Sardinero on July 4th, and a gig at Nancy's Zénith amphitheatre on July 6th, where they'll be playing a headlining show, as part of the Nancy Open Air festival.
The rest of the European dates were announced soon afterwards. The European leg will feature Muse's first shows in the cities of Wiener Neustadt, Austria and Santander, Spain. Additionally, the show at Milton Keynes's National Bowl is going to be Muse's first live show at the site. The last time Muse were at Milton Keynes was during the rehearsals for The Resistance stadium tour, in 2010. Additionally, Muse are set to go back to The Hague, Netherlands after almost 23 years, and Lyon, France after about a decade.
The European tour will feature all outdoor productions, and will include both stadium and festival shows.
Travel packages
Three travel packages are available to buy for three dates off of the European leg of the tour; Cologne (June 9th), Paris (July 8th) and Milan (July 22nd). Each travel package includes, together with two tickets, a two-night stay at a hotel (king or twin bed rooms options are available). Hotels which are included are Cologne's Pullman, Paris's Marriott Ambassador and Milan's Marriott. An optional third night add-on is also included in each package, for additional cost. Additionally, two exclusive posters, commemorating Muse's performance at each venue in the city (RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Stade de France in Paris and San Siro in Milan) are included in each travel package, as are on-site hosts, and, for the Cologne gig, a roundtrip fare on the metro to the stadium.
More on the travel packages can be seen here.
Asia
After being teased on February 16th by the band on social media, the band announced the only Asian gig of the tour in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, on February 22nd. The open-air gig will take place at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort.[2][3] It will be the band's first time in the country since 2007.
The gig will take place at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort.[4][5] It will be the band's first time in the country since 2007.
Supporting acts
Thje first support act to be announced were Royal Blood. They are set to support Muse during the open-air/European leg (exceptions being the Nancy and Glasgow gigs, aswell as festivals). For the U.S. shows, Evanescence were announced as the main opening act. Additional support acts for U.S. shows were announced on November 9th, 2022; One Ok Rock supported Muse during the first half of the U.S. leg (between Chicago and Philadelphia gigs), while Highly Suspect will be supporting Muse during the second half of the U.S. leg (between the Phoenix and Salt Lake City gigs).[6] On January 13th, 2023, The Warning were announced as the support act for the Mexico gigs.[7]
On March 22nd, both The Warning and One Ok Rock were announced as additional support acts for select European dates. The Warning will support Muse on the U.K. leg (plus one stop in Lyon, France), while One Ok Rock will be supporting Muse on the rest of the European leg (excluding festivals, and the Glasgow gig). Joining the two is Twin Atlantic, who are set to support Muse together with The Warning on the afforementioned Bellahouston Park gig in Glasgow.[8]
Production
As with the previous large headlining tour, the Simulation Theory World Tour, this tour features indoor, outdoor and festival shows. The stage set-up in general is a hybrid between the 2022 festivals tour and the autumn theatre tour setups. It includes an inflatable rotating figure of Will the Hacker as a backdrop, together with abig grid of lights, similar to the one from the theatre tour.
Similar to during the Simulation Theory World Tour in 2019, the Mexican shows got a festival set-up, which bore more resemblance to the 2022 festival setup, in terms of lighting fixtures, and the show itself. For the second leg, the U.S. arena tour, more songs were added, a few songs were swapped, and the setup recieved additional elements, which include an addition of six moving light-glass panels, hung above the band, more lights on the back grid, lights underneath the stage, a B-stage with a retractable floor, and an addition of another baphomet-like inflatable figure, named by Bellamy as "Baph", which gets erected during the final encore.
Short tour documentaries
Muse got a new photographer and videographer, Johann Ramos (who is perhaps most known as "The Work of Jar") onboard the tour, replacing their long-time photographer, Hans Peter van Velthoven. A series of short documentaries is set to be released throughout the tour itself, shot and edited by Ramos himself, posted on Muse's YouTube channel.
So far, there have been three such documentaries. The first one is a recap of the first leg of the tour in Mexico, the second one goes over the rehearsals, which took place in California's Ontario, aswell as the Chicago show, while the third one looks back at week one of the U.S. leg of the tour.
Average Setlist
During the January leg in Mexico, the setlist remained relatively unchaged from the shows off of the 2022 festivals tour. This changed with leg 1 in the U.S., starting in Chicago, in February, when the show was updated, in turn bringing in a new setlist format. This first indoor leg in the U.S. brought in live premieres of Verona and The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version) (Instrumental). STT Interstitials 1 and 3 returned as Simulation Theory Theme, which was played from tape, mashed up with [JFK], acting as an intro to Kill or Be Killed. Additionally, Kill or Be Killed's Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation version was played from tape, as an interstitial, before Compliance. Also returning after several years were Resistance, Undisclosed Desires and the shortened version of Isolated System. Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses) was also played, making this the second big headlining tour to feature Assassin, played in full since the Black Holes And Revelations Tour, with it previously being only played during The Drones World Tour 2015/16.
Mexican shows set
- Will of the People (extended intro)
- Interlude + Hysteria
- [Drill Sergeant] (robot voice) + Psycho
- Pressure / Map of the Problematique / Bliss
- Won't Stand Down
- Stockholm Syndrome / Citizen Erased / New Born
- The Gallery
- Compliance
- Thought Contagion
- Time Is Running Out
- You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween
- Madness
- We Are Fucking Fucked
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Plug In Baby (extended outro)
- Behold, The Glove (Matthew Bellamy song)
- Uprising (extended outro)
- Prelude + Starlight
Encore
U.S. shows set
- Will of the People (extended intro)
- Interlude + Hysteria
- [Drill Sergeant] (robot voice) + Psycho
- Bliss (extended outro) / Map of the Problematique / Citizen Erased / New Born / Stockholm Syndrome / Pressure / Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses version)
- Won't Stand Down
- Kill or Be Killed (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation) (played from tape)
- Compliance
- Thought Contagion
- Verona / Liberation
- Time Is Running Out
- Isolated System (shortened)
- Resistance / Undisclosed Desires
- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor intro + You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween
- Madness
- We Are Fucking Fucked
- The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version) (instrumental)
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Plug In Baby (extended outro)
- Behold, The Glove (Matthew Bellamy song)
- Uprising (extended outro)
- Prelude + Starlight
Encore
- Simulation Theory Theme (Matthew Bellamy song) (shortened) with JFK + Kill or Be Killed
- Man With a Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia
Notes & Exceptions
- During the four Mexican shows, rotation slots got swapped around the setlists. Generally, the setlists for these shows were more or less the same to these of the Will of the People Festivals Tour.
- With the start of the U.S. tour, the production was updated, in turn also changing the setlists - Scrambling songs on the setlist and changing its template, replacing The Gallery with Kill or Be Killed (Felsmann + Tiley Remix) and adding songs like Verona, The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Instrumental) and Isolated System to the sets.
- A few gigs into the U.S. leg, Undisclosed Desires was put into rotation with Resistance.
- Starting with the Canadian gigs, Liberation was added into rotation with Verona.
- The Shaky Knees Festival gig featured a shorter setlist with a few features off of the indoor tour; Thought Contagion was played earlier in the set, Isolated System was played before Supermassive Black Hole and The Dark Side (Alternate Reality)'s instrumental version was ditched from the set.
Stats
Gigs
The list will be updated as more gigs are announced
| Date | Venue | Location |
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| 2023-07-29 | Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2023-07-22 | San Siro Stadium | Milan, Italy |
| 2023-07-18 | Stadio Olimpico | Rome, Italy |
| 2023-07-15 | Stade Orange Vélodrome | Marseille, France |
| 2023-07-12 | BernExpo Areal | Bern, Switzerland |
| 2023-07-08 | Stade de France | Paris, France |
| 2023-07-06 | Zénith de Nancy (Nancy Open Air) | Nancy, France |
| 2023-07-04 | Campos de Sport de El Sardinero | Santander, Spain |
| 2023-07-01 | Festivalpark Werchter (Rock Werchter) | Werchter, Belgium |
| 2023-06-29 | Matmut Atlantique | Bordeaux, France |
| 2023-06-25 | The National Bowl | Milton Keynes, UK |
| 2023-06-23 | Bellahouston Park | Glasgow, UK |
| 2023-06-20 | John Smith's Stadium | Huddersfield, UK |
| 2023-06-18 | Flugplatz Neuhausen (Southside Festival) | Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany |
| 2023-06-17 | Eichenring (Hurricane Festival) | Scheessel, Germany |
| 2023-06-15 | Groupama Stadium | Lyon, France |
| 2023-06-11 | Park 360 (Rock for People) | Hradec Králové, Czech Republic |
| 2023-06-09 | RheinEnergieStadion | Cologne, Germany |
| 2023-06-07 | Malieveld | The Hague, Netherlands |
| 2023-06-03 | Stadion Wiener Neustadt | Wiener Neustadt, Austria |
| 2023-06-?? | Eskelunden (NorthSide) | Århus, Denmark |
| 2023-05-27 | Home Park | Plymouth, UK |
| 2023-05-06 | Central Park (Shaky Knees Music Festival) | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| 2023-04-20 | Vivint Arena | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 2023-04-18 | Climate Pledge Arena | Seattle, WA, USA |
| 2023-04-16 | Moda Center | Portland, OR, USA |
| 2023-04-14 | Oakland Arena | Oakland, CA, USA |
| 2023-04-12 | Honda Center | Anaheim, CA, USA |
| 2023-04-10 | Pechanga Arena | San Diego, CA, USA |
| 2023-04-08 | T-Mobile Arena | Las Vegas, NV, USA |
| 2023-04-06 | Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2023-04-04 | Ball Arena | Denver, CO, USA |
| 2023-04-02 | Desert Diamond Arena | Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| 2023-03-19 | Wells Fargo Center | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2023-03-17 | Madison Square Garden | New York City, NY, USA |
| 2023-03-15 | Centre Bell | Montreal, QC, Canada |
| 2023-03-14 | Centre Bell | Montreal, QC, Canada |
| 2023-03-12 | Centre Vidéotron | Québec City, QC, Canada |
| 2023-03-11 | Centre Vidéotron | Québec City, QC, Canada |
| 2023-03-09 | Scotiabank Arena | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 2023-03-07 | Nationwide Arena | Columbus, OH, USA |
| 2023-03-05 | Chaifetz Arena | St. Louis, MO, USA |
| 2023-03-03 | Dickies Arena | Fort Worth, TX, USA |
| 2023-03-02 | Toyota Center | Houston, TX, USA |
| 2023-02-28 | Moody Center | Austin, TX, USA |
| 2023-02-26 | Target Center | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| 2023-02-25 | United Center | Chicago, IL, USA |
| 2023-01-23 | Foro Sol | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2023-01-22 | Foro Sol | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2023-01-20 | Arena V.F.G. | Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 2023-01-18 | Estadio Banorte | Monterrey, Mexico |
References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/AMvtyphl9rA?t=2297
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641
- ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1590403848077803520/photo/1
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXcXiNNSFy/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1638587091020914713/photo/1